“A terrible change came over the woman’s face as I asked the question.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, The Medusa , which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

For the principle, which concerns the agreement of different judging persons, although only subjective, is yet assumed as subjectively universal (an Idea necessary for every one); and thus can claim universal assent (as if it were objective) provided we are sure that we have correctly subsumed [the particulars] under it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And so, as I was saying, he had these clothes come home, and he tried them on.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Even after I had returned home I did not taste them, since, every day, the necessity which made me hope that on the morrow I should arrive at the clear, calm, happy contemplation of Gilberte, that she would at last confess her love for me, explaining to me the reasons by which she had been obliged, hitherto, to conceal it, that same necessity forced me to regard the past as of no account, to look ahead of me only, to consider the little advantages that she had given me not in themselves and as if they were self-sufficient, but like fresh rungs of the ladder on which I might set my feet, which were going to allow me to advance a step further and finally to attain the happiness which I had not yet encountered.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A criticism of the Christian concept of God leads inevitably to the same conclusion.—A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But the people of Dyme, Pharae, and Tritaea, despairing of assistance from the Strategus, came to a mutual agreement to cease paying the common contribution to the Achaean league, and to collect a mercenary army on their own account, three hundred infantry and fifty horse; and to secure the country by their means.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They could still have made nothing by the interest of the paper, which, being over and above what the circulation of the country could absorb and employ, returned upon them in order to be exchanged for gold and silver, as fast as they issued it; and for the payment of which they were themselves continually obliged to borrow money.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Of the chapiters (capitals) of the pillars of the Temple.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

"I would like to be," she continued pensively, "one of those animals of the sea that can cut with their claws, that have arms like scissors, saws, pincers … that devour their own kind, and absorb everything around them."
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

[191] Marriage publications were not entered upon New London records; but the publication of Joseph Bolles and Martha Lewis, in the Congregational church, in 1731, is plainly recorded in the “Hempstead Diary.”
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

They certainly carried their point that Veturia, a lady advanced in years, and Volumnia, leading her two sons by Marcius, should go into the camp of the enemy, and that women should defend by entreaties and tears a city which men were unable to defend by arms.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In general it may be stated that the chief criticism of this product is the gaudy effect produced by the colors used.
— from Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Philippines. Bureau of Education

How far this comedy contributed to the subsequent depravation of Roman character, it is difficult to say.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

"Creeping gently through his slender hand, as though it loved the cold caress of death, was a wild vine whose tiny blossoms would have shrunk at the touch of a wild bee's foot."
— from Leah Mordecai: A Novel by Belle K. (Belle Kendrick) Abbott

Indeed the Abbé Guibert in his "Histoire de St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle" tells us that two days after certain brothers had been designated for this far off mission and their passage money paid, the permission was cancelled, one of the contributing causes being that it was learned from M. Charon, that de la Salle's brothers would be separated throughout the parishes, an idea militating directly against the spirit of community life.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The Discipline of the Secret in the Origin of the Christian Church.—The Inquisition.—The Mystics.—The Rise of Monachism.—The Mendicant Orders.—The Orders of Knighthood.—The Jesuits, their Organization and History.—The Rosicrucians, &c. ... 71 CHAPTER V.
— from Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

The great men, too, of the country cut off a few heads on festival-days.
— from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson