" "These would be very strong considerations," said Lydgate, half ironically—still there was a withered paleness about his lips as he looked at his coffee, and did not drink—"these would be very strong considerations if I did not happen to be in debt.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The day after the event, she decided on leaving Paris with a nun of her acquaintance; they are gone to seek a very strict convent in Italy or Spain.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Investigations and Problems 1. Isolation in Anthropogeography and Biology 269 2. Isolation and Social Groups 270 3. Isolation and Personality 271 Bibliography: Materials for the Study of Isolation 273 Topics for Written Themes 277 Questions for Discussion 278 Chapter V. Social Contacts I. Introduction 1. Preliminary Notions of Social Contact 280 2.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[Pg 280] CHAPTER V SOCIAL CONTACTS I. INTRODUCTION
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

—In its primitive form sympathy is reflex, automatic, unconscious, or very slightly conscious; it is, according to Bain, the tendency to produce in ourselves an attitude, a state, a bodily movement which we perceive in another person.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Q. quidem Scaevola, pontifex maximus, summam vim esse dicebat in omnibus iis arbitriis, in quibus adderetur ex fide bona , fideique bonae nomen existimabat manare latissime, idque versari in tutelis societatibus, fiduciis mandatis, rebus emptis venditis, conductis locatis, quibus vitae societas contineretur; in iis magni esse iudicis statuere, praesertim cum in plerisque essent iudicia contraria, quid quemque cuique praestare oporteret.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

So to White Hall, and there found the Duke and twenty more reading their commission (of which I am, and was also sent to, to come) for the Royall Fishery, which is very large, and a very serious charter it is; but the company generally so ill fitted for so serious a worke that I do much fear it will come to little.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"I hear a voice," says Chadband; "is it a still small voice, my friends?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

One of them, Alexander, in this very same Maleszow Castle where I am now quietly writing, resisted so bravely a great Tartar army, in one of its plundering excursions from Asia, that the chief was obliged to retreat; but before leaving, he sent to the valorous castellan, as a token of his admiration, the most precious thing he possessed,—namely, a clock, of very simple construction, it is true, but a great wonder at that time.
— from The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa

Protection of voluntarily shared critical infrastructure information. Sec.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

"We'd see each other very seldom, certainly, if I lived in Pennsylvania," she found voice to say after a moment.
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

An individual, notoriously slack and incompetent, ten years his junior, had been promoted over his head, because he was somebody's cousin and the kind of fatuous ass that only labours industriously in drawing-rooms and at functions, recuperating by slacking idly in offices and at duties—a paltry but paying game much practised by a very small class in India.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

In very severe cases it is difficult to maintain the patulous condition of the vaginal canal on account of subsequent cicatricial contraction.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

[253] But the most remarkable case is that of a very shining character in Indian history, who united in his single person the functions of a king and a saint.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

“‘Oh, yes; that is the case that was set for Thursday; a very strange case it is, indeed!
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

[6 U.S.C. 123] PROTECTION OF VOLUNTARILY SHARED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

But I should not have treated my visitor so cavalierly if I had not felt sure that she was eccentric and unconventional—qualities extremely tiresome in a woman no longer young or attractive.
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner