At that moment he saw fully, as a mathematical certainty, that this was his last hope, that if this broke down, nothing else was left him in the world, but to “rob and murder some one for the three thousand.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 47] pious men now are in the religious and moral sentiments they profess; and most of those who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time, and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

In his habitual laconical way he counselled me to reserve all my savings for our journey, and to settle with my creditors when my Parisian successes had provided the necessary means.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I can’t bring myself to refuse a man simply on an assumption.”
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There are many [ 175 ] porcelain jars containing fire about the room, and myrrh, storax, and bezoin, which make a strong odor through the house, are put on the fire.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

For these reasons a man should guard his own wife.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

My first mind was to run away; my second was bolder.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sheridan destroyed the railroad and more supplies at Ashland, and on the 11th arrived in Stuart's front.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

I know what your disappointment must have been at this result, and most sincerely do I sympathize with you.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

She ran out of the room, and Mary stood by the fire and twisted her thin little hands together with sheer pleasure.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Leon laid down to rest after making sure that his gun was in good order; but Sam wandered around, looking for squirrels and "signs of game," until suddenly he heard, away back on the mountain, the bay of a hound.
— from The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories by Joaquin Miller

“Let us ascend this ridge, and make sure that we are right.”
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne