In reality I care little for such a verdict, for, under similar circumstances, I should always act in a similar manner, and I do not wish to know that which no one can compel you to confess, and which, as a man of honour, you must not admit.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The next step is to take up some crimes in detail, and to discover what analysis will teach with regard to them.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I said that if that potentate must go over in our ship, why, I supposed he must—but that to my thinking, when the United States considered it necessary to send a dignitary of that tonnage across the ocean, it would be in better taste, and safer, to take him apart and cart him over in sections in several ships.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The printer uses signs called indexes . 81.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

How involuntarily the inmost thought breaks through under such circumstances, is shown by an occurrence in a surgical clinic.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A man had waited outside the window, some one had brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son, he had pursued the thief, had struggled with him, they had each tugged at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which neither alone could have effected.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Under such circumstances it is hard to conceive how the North showed such a superiority of force in every battle fought.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

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— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

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— from The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He began to talk to me in the usual silly cant I have so often heard from him, which I shortened by telling him I desired not to be troubled with it; that professions were of no use where actions were expected; and that the only thing could give me hopes of a good conduct was regularity and truth.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

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— from The Rotifers by Robert Abernathy

Also McPherson's History of Reconstruction , Dunning's United Stales Constitution in Civil War and in Reconstruction , and W.E. Foster's References on the United States Constitution in Civil War , about to be published (1891).
— from Government and Administration of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby

The lamp is lit in that box they fitted up so carefully in the bows.
— from The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War by Guy Thorne