But, one way and another, so many things happen to me which I never could have expected, I am sure, in my umble station, that it seems to rain blessings on my ed.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They at dinner before I come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about the disposing of Sir Thomas Allen’s fleete, which is newly come home to Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for the time to come.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In a child, the selection of the better from the worse is not conscious; he is the servant of his word experience.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

wiðersæc I. n. contradiction, hostility, opposition , Æ: apostasy .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As they were being pursued, one of the Harpies fell into the river Tigris, in Peloponnesus which is now called Harpys after her.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Troubled this evening that my wife is not come home from Chelsey, whither she is gone to see the play at the school where Ashwell is, but she came at last, it seems, by water, and tells me she is much pleased with Ashwell’s acting and carriage, which I am glad of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For such pleasure would be nothing different from the mere pleasantness in the sensation, and so in accordance with its nature could have only private validity, because it is immediately dependent on the representation through which the object is given .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

For on such principles we can never conclude from given attributes of things as existing to a consequence (for this would require the notion of cause, which involves the necessity of such a connection); we can only, guided by imagination, expect similar cases- an expectation which is never certain, however often it has been fulfilled.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

[Pg 181] At Wilmington, in North Carolina, he was received by a military and civic escort, entertained at a public dinner, and attended a ball given in his honor in the evening.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

And because, to one so worthy, I never could have offered less than the best, I want to tell you that in my heart I hold shrined forever one beloved face.
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

Lee's prime mistake was in not concentrating his army, on the 4th, at Burkeville, the junction of the two railroads, instead of at Amelia Court-House.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

“Well, I never!” cried Hoste; “Heaven knows how many shots we’ve thrown away upon those devils and now they’ve given us the slip after all.”
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

A blessed heaven; what then will it do In heaven hereafter, when it now creates Heav'n in a dungeon; goals to courts translates?'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

At certain spots one saw some roomy places, paved, and surrounded with low walls; on these the corn, which is never carried home in sheaves, is thrashed out at once.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why is not Charles here to have a hornpipe with me for joy?—But never mind—now I remember, he went to see Stanley, and perhaps he is hearing it all from him!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various

I know a great deal about you; but I know, too, that you have done many things which I never could have supposed you would have done: consult your own recollection.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

No such condition was added to the generous offer of the United States; and I declare, that however much I regard such an offer, had this condition been attached, I would in no case, have accepted it.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth