In the Phaedrus and Symposium love is not merely the feeling usually so called, but the mystical contemplation of the beautiful and the good.
— from Symposium by Plato

Upon that Chichikov turned to her, and was on the point of returning a reply at least no worse than that which would have been returned, under similar circumstances, by the hero of a fashionable novelette, when he stopped short, as though thunderstruck.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She could not pray: under the rush of solemn emotion in which thoughts became vague and images floated uncertainly, she could but cast herself, with a childlike sense of reclining, in the lap of a divine consciousness which sustained her own.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Whatever was advanced upon such circulating bills was in Edinburgh advanced in the paper of the Scotch banks; and in London, when they were discounted at the Bank of England in the paper of that bank.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Lancaster King of Arms was, as the same author informs us, so created by Henry IV.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

No man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually uses the Ten Commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his life conduct--and I don't mean by this in exceptional cases under spectacular circumstances, but I mean applying the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule in the ordinary affairs of every-day life.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Without the intervention of the State legislatures, the President of the United States cannot be elected at all.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The political institutions of the United States constantly bring citizens of all ranks into contact, and compel them to pursue great undertakings in concert.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But in the room to the right, tempting the Assessor, the Notary casually remarked:— “I said yesterday that our hunting party could not succeed; it is still too early, the grain is still in the ear, and there are many strips of unreaped spring corn, belonging to the peasants.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

This additional tax, as far as it fell unequally 362 on manufacturers, would under such circumstances be added to the price of their goods; for there can be no reason why their profits should be reduced below the general rate of profits, when their capitals might be easily removed to agriculture.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

It was a brief, formal letter, written, evidently, under some constraint, but it said that he was coming, and with childish joy the old man had placed it beneath his pillow, withdrawing it occasionally for 'Lena to read again, particularly the passage, "Dear father, I am sorry you are sick."
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

[223] The marks of the suits are usually Swords, Cups, Batons, and Money; and each suit consists of fourteen cards, ten of which are "pips" or low cards, and the other four are coat cards,—namely, King, Queen, Chevalier, and Valet.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

This physical suffering on Emily’s part when absent from Haworth, after recurring several times under similar circumstances, became at length so much an acknowledged fact, that whichever was obliged to leave home, the sisters decided that Emily must remain there, where alone she could enjoy anything like good health.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Suddenly she saw Ulick standing close by her; he had not seen her, and was looking for a seat.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

How then can it be expected that seeds ripened under similar circumstances, but in different latitudes, should give birth to a progeny differing in any remarkable particular from their parents?
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

The artillery horses would soon go too, and there was every prospect that later the troops would starve unless something could be done.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

'Ah—he looks like a man to be on good terms with his uncle,' sneered Captain Bouncey.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

I seized, however, this opportunity of informing the worthy monk that the story of his unfortunate superior could be perfectly well explained without the intervention of the devil.
— from Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry

This had to be done as quickly as possible, for Germany's plan was to crush her enemies before the United States could bring any help.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson