Will not every one instantly declare a world fitted only for fair-weather human beings susceptible of every passive enjoyment, but without independence, courage, or fortitude, to be from a moral point of view incommensurably inferior to a world framed to elicit from the man every form of triumphant endurance and conquering moral energy?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Dílì balábag sa hangtúray nílang panaghigála, It is not a bar to their eternal friendship.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I’ve got to write to Europe for them.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

But the sweetmeat seller in the camp lent him a little tom-tom—a drum beaten with the flat of the hand—and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the stars began to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all alone among the elephant fodder.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Thus he replies: 'The colour in thy face, (That even for anger makes the lily pale, And the red rose blush at her own disgrace)
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Much pleased with this visit I to White Hall, where I met Sir G. Downing, and to discourse with him an houre about the Exchequer payments upon the late Act, and informed myself of him thoroughly in my safety in lending L2000 to Sir W. Warren, upon an order of his upon the Exchequer for L2602
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Perhaps at this moment the exhausted frame has just fallen into a light sleep that a step might shake.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The privation of the delicate and plentiful fare to which his excellency had accustomed me was most painful, besides all the enjoyments from which I was excluded through the atrocious conduct of the virulent priest, who was my godfather.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The expenditures for these improvements not only absorbed his revenues, but involved him in enormous debts.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, July 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Heavy street fighting ensued and, at 0810, the defenders finally drove the enemy force from the village.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

For, in their convivial Garlands, they had respect unto Plants preventing drunkenness, or discussing the exhalations from Wine; wherein, beside Roses, taking in Ivy, Vervain, Melilote, etc.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

The houses and cottages of Penny Green had been built under the influence of many and different styles of architecture; and they had been built not only by people who intended to live in them, and proposed to be roomy and well cup boarded and stoutly beamed and floored in them, but who, not foreseeing restless and railwayed generations, built them to endure for the children of their children's children and for children yet beyond.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Is this the way you dwell together in unity?” exclaims their excellent female parent, laying down her embroidery.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

They are all, Sir, most sensibly affected with heartfelt gratitude to the Batavian government for their emancipation from captivity; to Admiral Kirkhurt for their preservation from the jaws of death, and to all the Dutch officers and inhabitants of the Texel, for their kindness and most humane attention.
— from Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

By the time we had finished wading across the sharp slope of the treacherous sand, and landed upon a rock-paved flat, even that effort failed me; I came to a halt in spite of myself, and also of the guide, who said that water was obtainable a little distance below.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

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— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Pedro and I were allowed to keep together, and to converse in Spanish; for I suppose that Catari thought that we should not dream of attempting to escape from among his numerous army.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston