It is not my fault that things cannot be so arranged, and that one must be satisfied with model flats.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Three of my best soldiers, whom your Majesty knows by name, and whose devotedness you have more than once appreciated, and who have, I dare affirm to the king, his service much at heart--three of my best soldiers, I say, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, had made a party of pleasure with a young fellow from Gascony, whom I had introduced to them the same morning.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But I will just take off my boots,” said he to himself.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

An admirable faculty, if it were infallible; but, as this degree of perfection is not even claimed by more than one mortal being; so from the fallibility of such acute discernment have arisen many sad mischiefs and most grievous heart-aches to innocence and virtue.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

There have been many women in the world who, instead of being supported by the reason and virtue of their fathers and brothers, have strengthened their own minds by struggling with their vices and follies; yet have never met with a hero, in the shape of a husband; who, paying the debt that mankind owed them, might chance to bring back their reason to its natural dependent state, and restore the usurped prerogative, of rising above opinion, to man.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

He came of the old masterful Baskerville strain and was the very image, they tell me, of the family picture of old Hugo.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ten minutes of valuable time were spent in propitiating the old man before she suggested that he come with her into the corridor while the nurses straightened the room.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

These two passions are contrary to each other; but in order to make this contrariety be felt, the objects must be someway related; otherwise the affections are totally separate and distinct, and never encounter.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He has put forth his ideas in many different forms; large volumes and little, works historical, expository, argumentative, theoretical and practical, but his point of view has remained throughout his long productive career essentially unchanged, and is so clearly indicated in all his works that one may be sure of obtaining the fundamental principles of his philosophy from whatever volume he selects.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

He never knew what had become of the old man, but suspected that he must have met with some fatal accident in the Italian city.
— from Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast by Frank V. Webster

I seemed to see each as it lived in its native realm of earth, or of air, or of water; and the red light played more or less warm through the structure of each, and the azure light, though duller of hue, seemed to shoot through the red, and communicate to the creatures an intelligence far inferior indeed to that of man, but sufficing to conduct the current of their will, and influence the cunning of their instincts.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The majority of this order may be set down as Vermiform , though it is not improbable that some of them bear an analogy to animals that appear far removed from the Annulosa .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

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— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson