She did not then acknowledge, nor has she ever admitted, that there is any question of more vital importance than that relating to the freedom of woman.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So Petruchio won his wager, and had in Katharine always a loving wife and true, and now he had broken her proud and angry spirit he loved her well, and there was nothing ever but love between those two.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

These conditions are not abnormal or diseased, but as they are not habitual, they are not normal either.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I do not say there are no humane slaveholders.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Here they were within a plantation which formed the Abbey grounds, and taking a new hold of her he went onward a few steps till they reached the ruined choir of the Abbey-church.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

3. (1) No potatoes of mine, that are new, have been boiled; (2) All my potatoes in this dish are fit to eat; (3) No unboiled potatoes of mine are fit to eat.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

"He is a right good man and true, and no harm shall befall him.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“It’s all holiday for them,” he thought; “but these are no holiday matters, they won’t wait, and there’s no living without them.” Chapter 7 Levin came back to the house only when they sent to summon him to supper.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And for this reason their givings are not Liberal, inasmuch as they are not honourable, nor purely disinterested, nor done in right fashion; but they oftentimes make those rich who should be poor, and to those who are quiet respectable kind of people they will give nothing, but to flatterers, or those who subserve their pleasures in any way, they will give much.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

His Merits thus and not his Sins confest, He speaks his Hopes and leaves to Heav’n the rest.
— from Poems by George Crabbe

Now I have neither time nor inclination to argue with the gentleman on the veto power as an original question; but I wish to show that General Taylor, and not he, agrees with the earlier statesmen on this question.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

"Hudson beat you by about ten minutes; he's withdrawn the charges, and says I'm to consider them as never having been made."
— from Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States Congress by George Barton

And while he was eagerly pointing him out to his other ministers, that minister alighted from the air near him.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Who could know her, Tom, and not honour her!
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

But never had he taken part in a battle as exciting as this, and never had he been cooler.
— from Wide Awake Magazine, Volume 4, Number 3, January 10, 1916 by Various

There are no half measures.
— from The Dreadnought of the Air by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There are no humble duties in a home: they are all great and national duties, directly determining the advancement of the world.
— from The New Optimism by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

There are no subtle harmonies in the papers and chintzes; there are no hidden suggestions of form and tone in the cornices and bell handles; all is barren of proportion, concord, and meaning.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay