He had not gone a hundred paces, however, when he returned and said: "I must say, senor, your worship said quite right, that in order to be able to swear without a weight on my conscience that I had seen you do mad things, it would be well for me to see if it were only one; though in your worship's remaining here I have seen a very great one."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Simultaneously with this Tophet-black aspect, there unfolds itself another aspect, which one may call a Tophet-red aspect: the Destruction of the Catholic Religion; and indeed, for the time being of Religion itself.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I tore the cloth from the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

In effect, the old English vice called CANT, which is MORAL TARTUFFISM, has insinuated itself also into these moralists (whom one must certainly read with an eye to their motives if one MUST read them), concealed this time under the new form of the scientific spirit; moreover, there is not absent from them a secret struggle with the pangs of conscience, from which a race of former Puritans must naturally suffer, in all their scientific tinkering with morals.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There was nobody but himself, he intimated, worthy of my confidence, and—in short, might he?
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

By his permission I waited on my charmer: and having imparted the contents of her brother's letter, at which she wept bitterly, in spite of all my consolation and caresses, the time of our marriage was fixed two days.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"What other misfortune could there be?"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

But, for myself, during the whole of my Custom-House experience, moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of firelight, were just alike in my regard; and neither of them was of one whit more avail than the twinkle of a tallow-candle.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then we came to a small wady full of resou , which our marabout calls the "meat of the camel;" and all the camels at once stopped, and for a long time obstinately refused to proceed.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

To which resolution Colonel Burr returned the following answer to the Senate:—— "Next to the satisfaction arising from a consciousness of having discharged my duty, is that which is derived from the approbation of those who have been the constant witnesses of my conduct, and the value of this testimony of their esteem is greatly enhanced by the promptitude and unanimity with which it is offered.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

The dominant type of marriage is, like prostitution, founded on economic considerations; the woman often marries chiefly to earn her living; here, too, we may certainly expect profound modifications.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

Mr. Bellingham was breaking up visibly under the stress of the terrible menace that hung over his daughter, and no words of mine could make the fact less manifest.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

32° 30' S. and above 13° variation, we had all day a severe gale of wind, which at night became a storm at W.S.W. from the northward,[182] and put us to try with our main course, continuing all night and next day.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

At such times he would run his fingers through his hair, and stare at the work which the first unfortunate pupil presented with a repugnance which was often more clearly than politely expressed.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Gerent sat in the great chair which one might call his throne at the upper end of the room, and beside him was Owen.
— from A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

"Ask for the foreman, and give him that, and he will arrange for you to begin work on Monday. Come along, Nellie; we have got to buy the fruit for to-morrow, you know."
— from Sturdy and Strong; Or, How George Andrews Made His Way by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Next, I pittied him, And so would any young wench, o' my Conscience, That ever dream'd, or vow'd her Maydenhead To a yong hansom Man; Then I lov'd him, Extreamely lov'd him, infinitely lov'd him; And yet he had a Cosen, faire as he too.
— from The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)