I can much more readily enter into the temptation of getting away from Miss Bates, than I can believe in the triumph of Miss Fairfax's mind over Mrs. Elton.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

It was only a question, therefore, of getting a few friends together, of seizing this printing-office by main force, of barricading it, and, if necessary, of sustaining a siege, while our Proclamations and our decrees were being printed.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

And it may be added that the supposed danger of a gradual change being merely speculative, it would have been hardly advisable upon that speculation to establish, as a fundamental point, what would deprive several States of the convenience of having the elections for their own governments and for the national government at the same epochs.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

He began, not without some inward rage, to think of going away from the neighborhood: it would be impossible for him to show any further interest in Dorothea without subjecting himself to disagreeable imputations—perhaps even in her mind, which others might try to poison.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“your ladyship would not think of going any farther to-night.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

No one can get away from it, or even think of getting away from it; it is three o'clock in the morning, and they have danced out all their joy, and danced out all their strength, and all the strength that unlimited drink can lend them—and still there is no one among them who has the power to think of stopping.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Uxor nomen dignitatis, non voluptatis , as [5775] he said, a wife is a name of honour, not of pleasure: she is fit to bear the office, govern a family, to bring up children, sit at a board's end and carve, as some carnal men think and say; they had rather go to the stews, or have now and then a snatch as they can come by it, borrow of their neighbours, than have wives of their own; except they may, as some princes and great men do, keep as many courtesans as they will themselves, fly out impune ,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For what concerns indifferent things, as clothes, who is there seeking to bring them back to their true use, which is the body’s service and convenience, and upon which their original grace and fitness depend; for the most fantastic, in my opinion, that can be imagined, I will instance amongst others, our flat caps, that long tail of velvet that hangs down from our women’s heads, with its party-coloured trappings; and that vain and futile model of a member we cannot in modesty so much as name, which, nevertheless, we make show and parade of in public.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It is plain that the Greek texts of G and F came from the same original: but it is equally plain that the two scribes had different Latin texts before them—that of G being the Old Latin, and that of F Jerome’s revised Vulgate.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"you would never throw our guilders away for a thing like that?"
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

So the old gentleman and Fred walked up Museum Street and had their conversation on the pavement.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Possibly this mild, succulent food gives it a nature resembling more that of the ordinary grazing animals, for it falls an easy prey to the invading Europeans.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Gradually we got back again to our usual life on board, and to our games and frivolities; and by a few, perhaps, the solemn act of burying the dead had been forgotten ere we gained our first view of the beautiful Table Bay, with the picturesque town and grand Table Mountain in the background, but on some of us, I feel sure, it will have a lasting influence.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 97, January to June 1899 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

English anarchists have no permanent organization of any kind, and the one group are for socialist anarchism, and the other for individualist anarchism.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

The first is comprehended in the following statement, quoted from the Treaty of Arbitration of 1892: "Each Government shall appoint two commissioners to investigate conjointly with the commissioners of the other Government all facts having relation to seal life in Bering Sea, and the necessary measures for its protection and preservation."
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

Agassiz's system of classification of fish, founded on the form of the scales, is perhaps better suited than this to the palæontologist, but the one given above, founded as it is principally on the internal parts of the animal, is better suited to the zoologist.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

We have now traced the mathematical development of the theory of geometrical axioms, from the first revolt against Euclid to the present day.
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

He appealed to the soldiers present who were in rebellion against God, striving to put down rebellion in this land, and asked them how they, who had been taught to read the Bible, and had learned the Lord's Prayer in infancy from a mother's lips, could stand in judgment, when a poor, despised, and inferior race, who, though denied the Bible, had been taught of God, and found their way to Christ, should rise up and condemn them.
— from Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lewis C. (Lewis Conger) Lockwood