And in the same way one often understands the true connection of important events in one's own life, not while they are happening, or even immediately after they have happened, but only a long time afterwards.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

What bids me to abandon hope of ease?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tis ê dêxis ê achthos epegeiron hekaston tôn organôn eis apokrisin, ouden chalepon kapi tês cholêdochou kysteôs tauto tout' ennoein epi te tôn allôn hapantôn organôn, ex hôn dêlonoti kai hai artêriai kai hai phlebes eisin.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

In Figure 64 the position of the advanced hand of each of the priests nearest to the grove is very suggestive to the physiologist.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

and she supposes herself to be travelling at her own expense.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

So, while they were passing the night in the forest foretold them, in a shelter framed of twigs, a hand of extraordinary size was seen to wander over the inside of the dwelling.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

When these assumptions have once established themselves (as they have a way of doing in our very descriptions of the phenomenal facts) it is almost impossible to get rid of them afterwards or to make any one see that they are not essential features of the subject.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

That such abuses were far from being uncommon, the ancient history of every country in Europe bears witness.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And because he used to avail himself of every species of reasoning, they relate that Eratosthenes said that Bion was the first person who had clothed philosophy in a flowery robe.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Indeed, I do not believe that all his oppressive exactions and long bills enraged the poor tenants so much as this cruel measure.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Here again are tales that one hears that I cannot assert as facts, though this woman told them as her own experiences.
— from Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

He, by the way, was the best male dancer (not professional) I have ever seen; and this advantage he owed entirely to the extraordinary strength of his foot in all its parts, to its peculiarly happy conformation, and to the accuracy of his ear; for, as to instruction, I have often understood from his family that he never had any.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

He then took a hand of each, and joining them between his own, “ You ,” he continued, “who, though rich, are not hardened, and you, who though poor, are not debased, why should ye not love, why should ye not cherish each other?
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

The bleached skull of the buffalo, was sometimes met, and proved that this animal had once existed here.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Obliged at last to abandon hope of ever seeing his master again, he refused to eat, and died at length, of hunger and exposure, on his master's grave.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

They tore off the accumulated husks of externalism, but kept intact the real kernel of religion.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

And he, the bold free thinker, the daring and unflinching soldier, bound hand and foot by a silly superstition, trembled—aye, trembled, and confessed to his secret soul that there was one thing which he ought to do, yet dared not! Anon, maddened by the apparent hopelessness of ever being able to recur to the straight road; of ever more regaining his own self-esteem, or the respect of virtuous citizens—forced, as he seemed to be, to play a neutral part—the meanest of all parts—in the impending struggle—of ever gaining eminence or fame under the banners of the commonwealth; he dreamed of giving himself up, as fate appeared to have given him already up, to the designs of Catiline!
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

When Leolin vnderstood that his wife was taken from him by the waie as she was comming, he was not a little wroth, and incontinentlie began to make warre vpon king Edwards subiects that bordered néere vnto Wales, killing the people, spoiling their goods, and burning vp their townes and houses on each side.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (09 of 12) Edward the First, Surnamed Longshanks, the Eldest Sonne of Henrie the Third by Raphael Holinshed

The archæological history of Egypt is rich in reminders of his former eminence.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various