Of the six one only had three cartridges, the others had only two shots to fire.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

"Among them odd heaps of old papers, this gentleman, when he comes into the property, naturally begins to rummage, don't you see?" said Mr. Bucket.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Besides the prospect of this gloomy enjoyment, he was urged to return to England, by an eager desire of taking vengeance on the perfidious Fathom, as well as of acquitting himself of the obligations he owed in that kingdom, to those who had assisted him in his distress.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

From the Creeks the new revelation was brought to the Cherokee, whose priests at once began to dream dreams and to preach a return to the old life as the only hope of the Indian race.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Before they leave, a cocoanut, the outer husk of which has been removed, is placed on a stool of pala wood, and one of the bridegroom’s party must smash it with his fist.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is after the tradition of his old relation to huntsmen that the Devil has been so especially connected in folklore with soldiers.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Never, no, never once, in one unguarded moment from that time to the end, did any care for himself, any thought of his own comfort, any selfish consideration or regard distract his thoughts from the gentle object of his love.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And above and beyond all this, there is a separate and peculiar source of pleasure, and consequently of pain, which man has established for himself, also as the result of using his powers of reflection; and this occupies him out of all proportion to its value, nay, almost more than all his other interests put together—I mean ambition and the feeling of honor and shame; in plain words, what he thinks about the opinion other people have of him.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

tautês men ge kai pro tês anatomês aisthanometha, prin aniathênai tô plêthei baryntheisan ê tê drimytêti dêchtheisan, Pg 246 Greek text athroizousês eti to ouron, hôs ousês tinos kantautha dynameôs kathektikês.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

We noticed that the main utilitarian reason why it is not right for every rich man to distribute his superfluous wealth among the poor, is that the happiness of all is on the whole most promoted by maintaining in adults generally (except married women), the expectation that each will be thrown on his own resources for the supply of his own wants.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

On the other hand, objection has been made to the assumption by Congress under the postoffice clause, of the functions of a common carrier, on the ground that they were not comprehended by the original grant.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

It is my duty, as your friend and minister, to tell you that one half of your present hardships is owing to bad management .
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

Just as the history of religion does not pass [421] from the belief in one god to the belief in many gods, but inversely from polytheism towards monotheism, so language proceeds from original polysyllabism towards monosyllabism: if the development of language took the same course in prehistoric as in historic times, we see, by projecting the teaching of history on a larger scale back into the darkest ages, that early words must have been to present ones what the plesiosaurus and gigantosaurus are to present-day reptiles.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Having said this he shut his door: but Paul continued fasting and praying before his door, till Antony, seeing his fervor, on the fourth day opened it again, and going out to him, after several trials of his obedience, admitted him to the monastic state, and prescribed him a rule of life; teaching him, by the most perfect obedience, to crucify in himself all attachment to his own will, the source of pride; by the denial of his senses and assiduous hard labor, to subdue his flesh; and by continual prayer at his work, and at other times, to purify his heart, and inflame it with heavenly affections.[1]
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The girl regarded him warily, like a fencer fixing her eyes on those of her opponent.
— from Vera, the Medium by Richard Harding Davis

A risk exists under such conditions, when there is no visible object by which to judge a course, that an airman may make leeway, unconsciously, under the pressure of a side-wind; and so he must be ready to note carefully, immediately that a view of the earth is vouchsafed him, whether he has actually been making leeway, either to one hand or the other, even while the bow of his machine has been held on its compass course.
— from Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners by Claude Grahame-White

With astonishing patience they sustain hunger, thirst, cold, heat, fatigue, and all the other hardships of life.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de