'You are a very bad boy,' retorted Bella, 'to talk about dismal things and be out of spirits.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But if we take “pleasure” to denote the kind of feelings, above defined, it becomes a really debateable question whether the end to which our desires are always consciously directed is the attainment by ourselves of such feelings.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

"What's to be done?" "I don't see that 'tis any business of ours," Smallbury murmured dubiously.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

We contemn, in turn, every other gift of men of the world; but the habit, even in little and the least matters, of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is proposed merely as a project [85] of speculative improvement; not from the necessity in the case, not to add anything to the authority of Parliament, but that we may afford a greater attention to the concerns of the Americans, and give them a better opportunity of stating their grievances, and of obtaining redress.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

" Before the restoration of Henry Clifford, the Shepherd-lord, [Pg 198] to the estates of his ancestors—on the accession of Henry VII.—there was only a keeper's lodge or tower at Barden, "one of six which existed in different parts of Barden Forest.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

It guards them against being overcharged, outworn, surprised; it guards them against being carried captive by earthly care.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

[Pg 190] girls, and then again by ourselves or singly.
— from Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt

But if a sound metaphysical basis be a necessary requisite for the adequate consideration of Ethics, Psychology as the science of the human soul is so vitally connected with Ethics, that the two studies may almost be treated as branches of one subject.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

Before passing on to another branch of our subject, it may be a gain to clearer ideas to collect in the form of the following classification the main points discussed (in Chaps.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

So the letters ran,—' Richard &c.,— to al and singular the Officers, &c.,—Wit ye, that in consideration of the true and faithful service which our well beloved servant Rauf Banistre Esq, now late hath done unto us, for and about the taking and bringing of our said great Rebel into our hands, we have given unto the said Rauf, and to his heirs male, the said Manour for ever. '"
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

Though a bit out of style, just the same is thy speed.
— from Snowflakes by Esther Nelson Karn