Its end and aim is therefore, by the guidance of causality, to refer all possible states of matter to other states, and ultimately to one single state; and again to deduce these states from each other, and ultimately from one single state.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

One was in breaking the promise which I gave my husband to bring you up as my own child; the other—” she stopped.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The old schoolhouse stands { there .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts (presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a bit of attention".
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

de Beauseant should not detect that involuntary thrill of satisfaction; slight though it was, it was appalling in its artlessness.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If you'd only set about another task of some sort, you'd soon be your hearty, happy self again, and forget your trouble."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The little world of sunshine and the turquoises of sky strewn among the golden net-work of the trees smiled at her, as one who brings good tidings.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

Though we have already mentioned these facts in general, in our dissertation concerning the animals of the two continents, we can here prove it in a more particular manner, and demonstrate, that of seventeen species, to which number we may reduce all the ape species in the old continent, and of twelve or thirteen, to which this name of ape has been transferred in the new, there is not any of them alike, or to be found in both continents, for of the seventeen in the old we must first retrench three or four of the apes, who do not exist in America, and to whom the sapajous and the sagoins have no resemblance.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (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

One summer's day, as the princess was walking in the open, sunny space, where the old oak had stood, she saw a blue flower.
— from Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis

She had jet butterflies embroidered over it, a flight of them climbing up one side of her skirt and crawling to the opposite shoulder, so that if one stood off at a distance she had a curiously diagonal appearance, as if she had listed heavily to one side.
— from Affinities, and Other Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

In particular, he cross-examined the five eye-witnesses of the occurrence so searchingly that they began to doubt the plain evidence of their senses.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

So it proved, for the fish showed no sign of giving in for another quarter of an hour, and various were the comments made as to the probability of its being got on deck; but at last the darts grew shorter and shorter, and far astern they saw a gleam from time to time of something silvery and creamy as there was a wallowing and rolling on the surface, and now the mate took hold of the keen hook attached to a light ten-foot ash pole.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

At the only spiritualistic seance he had ever attended, a greasy affair in a hall bedroom, he had heard that very phrase.
— from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin

A distorted tradition of Sarah Stout's tragic end, and of Lord Cowper's imputed bigamy, was contributed to an early number of the 'European' by a clerical authority—the Rev. J. Hinton, Rector of Alderton, in Northamptonshire.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

An hour or two later she was given a very rude bunk filled with straw and a couple of blankets in an unoccupied room, and being tired out, she slept soundly.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss