The congratulatory letter which Elizabeth received from Lydia on her marriage, explained to her that, by his wife at least, if not by himself, such a hope was cherished.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Those who expressed repentance for their errors wore a garment of the same kind covered with flames directed downwards, while [Pg 170] that worn by Jews, sorcerers, and renegades bore a St. Andrew's cross before and behind.
— from Candide by Voltaire

The messenger that you sent to me to announce the death of our little girl seems to have missed his way en route for Athens; but when I got to Tanagra I heard the news from my niece.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The latter were alone to be responsible; whilst the real advisers, who enjoyed all the power, were effectually removed from all the danger.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?" was a question which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered the room, and from all the others when they sat down to table.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Just as it does not do to have the writer entirely removed from the feeling to which he is giving expression, so also it 238 does not conduce to the truest poetry to have him too close to it.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

The preponderance of the mandarins never signifies any good, any more than does the advent of democracy, or arbitration instead of war, equal rights for women, the religion of pity, and all the other symptoms of declining life.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Why exclude relatives from your love of humanity?" His suggestion dismayed me.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

We have taken these latter two churches because they lie within easy reach from Somersby, the main object of our excursion, and they add to its interest.
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

Mrs. Franklin was easily recovered from her fainting fit;—and the suffering Josephine received at the skillful hands of the Doctor every care and attention which her lamentable case demanded.
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

He sends them a letter thanking them for their gift of a beautiful sword, and in a loving farewell says:— May you always keep fresh within your hearts those impulses of generosity and kindliness and loyalty which I have learned to know so well, and of which your gift will ever remain for me the graceful symbol!
— from Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

It was a puzzling question, but I refused to give it up I knew the song, and the memory of it warmed my heart with each recurring flash, but
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

In the second, he went straight home to his bed that night as tired as a dog, and was en route for the East soon after six o'clock next morning.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham

Her, from a nerveless well among stagnant pools of the dry, Through her good aim at divine, shall commune with Earth remake; Fraternal unto sororial, her, where abashed she may lie, Divinest of man shall clasp; a world out of darkness awake, As it were with the Resurrection’s eyelids uplifted, to see Honour in shame, in substance the spirit, in that dry fount Jets of the songful ascending silvery-bright water-tree Spout, with our Earth’s unbaffled resurgent desire for the mount, Though broken at intervals, clipped, and barren in seeming it be.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

60 Nor shall the royal mistresses be named, Too ugly, or too easy to be blamed, With whom each rhyming fool keeps such a pother, They are as common that way as the other: Yet sauntering Charles, between his beastly brace,[53] Meets with dissembling still in either place, Affected humour, or a painted face.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

The worst evil resulting from the precocious use of speech by young children is that we not only fail to understand the first words they use, we misunderstand them without knowing it; so that while they seem to answer us correctly, they fail to understand us and we them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau