[203] In conclusion, then, we must admit that while we find a number of broad and more or less indefinite rules unhesitatingly laid down by Common Sense in this department of duty, it is difficult or impossible to extract from them, so far as they are commonly accepted, any clear and precise principles for determining the extent of the duty in any case.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I said, when I could speak, Your honour will forgive me; but as you have no lady for me to wait upon, and my good lady has been now dead this twelvemonth, I had rather, if it would not displease you, wait upon Lady Davers, because— I was proceeding, and he said, a little hastily—Because you are a little fool, and know not what's good for yourself.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It is not light enough for us to consult the instruments; we only know that the rice paper falls from us like dead butterflies, that we are rising, always rising.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The door opened on a room of uncommonly large dimensions, broad and high, lighted by an enormous window looking out over the valley.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

p. 30, 33) Umbraculum, une loge de bois avec une porte.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

la tranquilidad de quien ha tocado el órgano en misa mayor y se ha comido 30 luego una libra de boquerones, otra de carne y otra de pan, con su correspondiente dosis de vino de Tarifa.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The helm is usually lashed down, but this is altogether unnecessary (except on account of the noise it makes when loose), for the rudder has no effect upon the vessel when lying-to.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

What would happen, however, if the tokway were not expelled, is not so unequivocally laid down by tradition, and it cannot be read out of the spell or the rite.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The things about me and before me made me feel like a boy again—convinced me that I was a boy again, and that I had simply been dreaming an unusually long dream; but my reflections spoiled all that; for they forced me to say, 'I see fifty old houses down yonder, into each of which I could enter and find either a man or a woman who was a baby or unborn when I noticed those houses last, or a grandmother who was a plump young bride at that time.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

[ Contents ] Chapter XXII Governor Forbes—1909–1912 The trouble with this country to-day is that, under long domination by the protected interests, a partnership has grown up between them and the Government which the best men in the Republican party could not break up if they would.—
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It was of a tall, slim girl with a very white, smooth face—extraordinary eyes under level, dark brows, and a big red mouth, and hair of silvery fairness that glistened grey, not gold, in its lights.
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

Nevertheless, we hunted up lodgings, drank bad tea at one of the Shakespeare Tea Rooms, and were out of those greedy streets as quickly as possible on a stroll across the old ridged fields to Shottery.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

During this interim the practice of duelling in England, but recently countenanced in the army by the Duke of Wellington, fell under lasting disfavor by the fatal outcome of an army duel, in which Lieutenant Hawkes Death of Hood killed Lieutenant Seaton.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

It was indeed a fact, and our boat's crew scrambled on board, we two lads following in silent amazement, hardly conscious of what we were doing until Lieutenant Downes began calling off the names of those who would remain on board as prize crew.
— from With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in the Southern Waters During the War of 1812 by James Otis

A brief account of Agassiz's university life, dictated by himself, may fitly close the record of this period.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

In this sense, at least, the authors can say in Montaigne's words, " ceci est un livre de bonne foy .
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

These plantations may well suggest a doubt as to the truth of the proposition so unqualifiedly laid down by some authors, that "earth destitute of or [Pg 386] ganic matter cannot sustain vegetation."
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

And this prince made answer, ‘If by thy command I saw the sons of Usna lie dead before me, then woe be upon thee, for with mine own hand should I take thy life.’
— from Celtic Tales, Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm

It so happens however that in her troubles she has become an opium-taker; just as she is passing Marner's cottage the effect of an unusually large dose becomes overpowering; she lies down and falls off into a stupor which this time ends in death.
— from The English Novel and the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier