I told him all the circumstances, as well as I could; how I was endeavoring to please Covey; how hard I was at work in the present instance; how unwilling I sunk down under the heat, toil and pain; the brutal manner in which Covey had kicked me in the side; the gash cut in my head; my hesitation about troubling him (Capt. Auld) with complaints; but, that now I felt it would not be best longer to conceal from him the outrages committed on me from time to time by Covey.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Now, Karim Khan, the old clerk of my office, warned me repeatedly not to take up my abode there.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

RAISE THE WIND, to obtain credit, or money—generally by pawning or selling off property.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

As it is the setting o of the idea, when it recurs, which makes us conscious of it as past, so it can be no intrinsic modification of the 'nerve-element' N which is the organic condition of memory, but something extrinsic to it altogether, namely, its connections with those other nerve-elements which we called O—that letter standing in the scheme for the cerebral substratum of a great plexus of things other than the principal event remembered, dates, names, concrete surroundings, realized intervals, and what not.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

XLII 370 Ah Dame (quoth he) thou temptest me in vaine, To dare the thing, which daily yet I rew, And the old cause of my continued paine With like attempt to like end to renew.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

She done out a tub of clothes on Monday, but she starched 'em afore they was wrenched, and blued a pink calico dress till I thought I should a died a laughin.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The UPPER SERVANTS of great families may, from the odious character of Mrs. JEWKES, and the amiable ones of Mrs. JERVIS, Mr. LONGMAN, etc. learn what to avoid, and what to choose, to make themselves valued and esteemed by all who know them.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

These were the first signs of that new phase in my life upon which I entered from this day forth, and in which I accustomed myself to look upon the outward circumstances of my existence as being merely subservient to my will.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Your mother was the only child of my bosom friend, Duncan; and I'll just give you a hearing, though all the knights of St. Louis were in a body at the sally-port, with the French saint at their head, crying to speak a word under favor.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But the question whether it be one in historical origin or in universal mythopoetic fancy, and this latter be the only common origin, must remain in almost every case unanswered[28].
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

For sake of thine own content of mind
— from Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love by Laurence Hope

And at the last, impatient of so much heavy insularity, he added to his arcana the Oriental canticles of Masoch, the infamous Lesbia’s archipelagian lyrics, the voluptuous and untranslatable masterpieces of Maeterlinck and Le Gallienne.
— from The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth by Hamish Miles

In all records of travel, of cheer, of merriment, she can say thankfully: " Et ego in Arcadia vixi ."
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Liberty is the original condition of man; to renounce liberty is to renounce the nature of man: after that, how could we perform the acts of man?
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

To one class of minds this is an infinitely rich meed.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

So he holds the cards, except for that one chance of mine.
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

When judicial authority was conferred on a noble, some attributes were retained,—for example, the trial of crimes of murder and the right of appeal to the royal authority from the cases in seigniorial courts.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Snoxell had been specially directed by the housemaid to distribute his three umbrellas in the following manner: the new silk umbrella was to be given to Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe; the old silk umbrella was to be handed to Mr. Goodworth, Mrs. Thorpe’s father; and the heavy gingham was to be kept by Snoxell himself, for the special protection of “Master Zack,” aged six years, and the only child of Mr. Thorpe.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins