Yesterday evening when the washerwoman gave me that damned tunic, the one I was wearing then, and it smelt of jasmine, why . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The ancients themselves supply the answer in symbolic form, when they place Homer and Archilochus as the forefathers and torch-bearers of Greek poetry side by side on gems, sculptures, etc., in the sure conviction that only these two thoroughly original compeers, from whom a stream of fire flows over the whole of Greek posterity, should be taken into consideration.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In a foreign war the most considerable of all goods, life and limbs, are at stake; and as every one shuns dangerous ports, seizes the best arms, seeks excuse for the slightest wounds, the laws, which may be well enough observed while men were calm, can now no longer take place, when they are in such commotion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

" "Really, I never thought about it," said Will, sulkily.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“Well, then, my dear, get upon Charlie the next time, and I shall fuck your truly magnificent bottom.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Who ventures for a moment to deny that it displays a marked and truly wonderful influence at all times, among all peoples, in all circumstances of life; even when constitutional law is suspended, and the horrors of revolutions and wars fill the air; in small things and in great, every day and every hour?
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

It makes an employer very uncomfortable to feel that those about him are carrying around an injured air a large part of the time, so that he never quite knows whether they are in sympathy with him or not.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

His literary antagonism to Aristotle is shown in his remarkable work, Della Poetica , published at Ferrara in 1586.
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

That is, When that advantageous Island shall be well peopled, it may become so strong and potent as to over-power the neighbouring Isles, and also a part of [345] the main Land, especially the Maritime parts.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Each principle appears true and irreversible so far as it goes, but it is liable to be merged in a more comprehensive formula.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

for there was always lodged here a Roman legion; and posting themselves in their armour in several places in the porticoes, they kept a watch on the people on the feast-days to prevent all disorders; for as the temple was a guard to the city, so was Antonia to the temple."
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

The Scotsman of January 5th, 1889, notes that in 1860 the Rev. Dr. Robert Lee, of Greyfriars, gave a course of Sunday evening lectures on Biblical Criticism, in which he showed the absurdity and untenableness of regarding every word in the Bible as inspired; and it adds: "We well remember the awful indignation such opinions inspired, and it is refreshing to contrast them with the calmness with which they are now received.
— from Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889 by Charles Bradlaugh

‘Who’s there?’ as I sings to him, though I needn’t, for the little light was streaking out through the windows showed me what he was wearing and who it was well enough.
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

As he turned away in sorrow from me, shaking his head at my badness, I became so overcome (never having been quite assured, even by people's praises, about my own goodness); moreover, the light which he threw upon things differed so greatly from my own, that, in a word—not to be too long—I feared that I was a villain.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

In places where the plow does not scour the ground is pushed to one side and packed or puddled on the underside instead of being lifted and turned as it should be.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer

At day-break we stood in again, with a faint land-breeze between E.S.E. and S.S.E. At noon observed, in latitude 21° 59' 30", Cape Coronation being west southerly, distant seven leagues, and the foreland S. 38° W. As we advanced S.S.W. the coast beyond the foreland began to appear in sight; and at sun-set we discovered a low island lying S.S.E, about seven miles from the foreland.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr