And there is Cornelia Bryant, who is never done abusing them, and all she has to do is to reach out her hand and pick one up, as it were.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Well, it shall be less; And thy restraint before was liberty, To what I now decree: and therefore mark me.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

We were in no danger, and could not afford to commit murder for such a trifling reason.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

But the basis of all willing is need, deficiency, and thus pain.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I said that what is termed social recognition was a question which I never discussed, and then I quoted from my Atlanta address what I had said there in regard to that subject.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What a view a man must have of this universe who thinks he can swallow it all, who is not doubly and trebly happy that he can keep it from swallowing him!
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For to say, that the non-existence of a thing is not self-contradictory is a lame appeal to a logical condition, which is no doubt a necessary condition of the existence of the conception, but is far from being sufficient for the real objective possibility of non-existence.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead, and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The stream has forsaken its former channel, which is now dry and cultivated.
— from Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3) Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833 by Burnes, Alexander, Sir

That which appears to us from without is not doubtless all the reality of the world; but it is a real world.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

"But I am sure I could not have loved him so well as my benefactor, my real and second father, who is now dead and gone.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They had the right body and were in no doubt about it.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

I see no reason why we should not find it upon our mountain, which is, no doubt, a sort of outlying peak of the Rocky Mountains themselves.’
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

We can't do a year's work in ninety days, and in winter time at that!"
— from The Iron Furrow by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

From this report the following extracts are taken: At the popular banquet held in honor of William Jennings Bryan last Friday night in the Luzon restaurant, the distinguished guest showed the same caution as at Malolos in dealing with the questions of policy affecting these islands, never at any time doing more than skirting issues which if not dead are generally quiescent.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

An insight into his own persevering way of working may well be gained from the directions he give’s in a letter written from Bristol to Mr. Wase, of Madeley:—­ “ My dear brother ,—­Go to Mrs. Cound, and tell her I charge her, in the name of God, to give up the world, to set out with all speed for Heaven, and to join the few about her who fear God If she refuses, call again; call weekly, if not daily, and warn her from me till she is ripe for glory...
— from Fletcher of Madeley by Margaret Allen

The truth is that Boswell was very far from being idle; he had great energy, and often applied himself to something which interested him with fervent industry; he was irregular no doubt, as are very many people who work in this way.
— from Boswell the Biographer by George Mallory

The ruffian had his mouth all bound in a bloody rag, so I hugged myself with the knowledge that he had been well hit; but he was in nowise depressed; and, although the gun had stopped his speech, he smacked Paolo on the back when he greeted him, and the others soon had their faces in the great brown jugs.
— from The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton