I could not treat him as a madman, for he did not look like one, and, concluding that there really might be the law he had alleged, I replied that I did not feel inclined to join him in his enterprise, of which I disapproved very strongly, unless his wife had actually robbed him of what she possessed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Young ladies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage, and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may like to have her own way.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The translator has remarked, in the "Advertisement" to his original edition (which follows these pages), on the singular neglect of La Fontaine by English translators up to the time of his own work.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

"What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here lives the noble Sindbad the Sailor, that famous traveller who sailed over every sea upon which the sun shines?" The porter, who had often heard people speak of the immense wealth of Sindbad, could not help feeling envious of one whose lot seemed to be as happy as his own was miserable.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

From the moment she recognized that dear, loved face, a new life force took possession of her and compelled her to speak and act apart from her own will.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Should there be, at the time of her happiness, any sad event you wish to communicate to her, of which it is your duty to inform her, write it in another letter.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

I knew him from a boy, you see: and for my part, I have often wished that Miss Eyre had been sunk in the sea before she came to Thornfield Hall.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He assigned as a reason for his gloom and seeming inattention, that he apprehended Johnson had relinquished his purpose of furnishing him with a Prologue to his play, with the hopes of which he had been flattered; but it was strongly suspected that he was fretting with chagrin and envy at the singular honour Dr. Johnson had lately enjoyed.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

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R.T., on locusts visiting Madeira Lowness, of structure connected with variability —related to wide distribution Lubbock, Sir J., on the nerves of coccus —on secondary sexual characters —on a diving hymenopterous insect —on affinities —on metamorphoses Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance —on resemblance of child to parent Lund and Clausen, on fossils of Brazil Lyell, Sir C., on the struggle for existence —on modern changes of the earth —on terrestrial animals not having been developed on islands —on a carboniferous land-shell —on strata beneath Silurian system —on the imperfection of the geological record —on the appearance of species —on Barrande's colonies —on tertiary formations of Europe and North America —on parallelism of tertiary formations —on transport of seeds by icebergs —on great alternations of climate —on the distribution of fresh-water shells —on land-shells of Madeira Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized trees in Nova Scotia Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic Macleay, on analogical characters Macrauchenia McDonnell, Dr., on electric organs Madeira, plants of —beetles of, wingless —fossil land-shells of —birds of Magpie tame in Norway Males, fighting Maize, crossed Malay Archipelago, compared with Europe —mammals of Malm, on flat-fish Malpighiaceae, small imperfect flowers of Mammae, their development —rudimentary Mammals, fossil, in secondary formation —insular Man, origin of Manatee, rudimentary nails of Marsupials, fossil species of Marsupials of Australia, structure of their feet Martens, M., experiment on seeds Martin, Mr. W.C., on striped mules Masters, Dr.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The case of the artificial horizon, of which Clapperton had lost the key, was sometimes very difficult to open, as happened on this occasion, and he asked one of the people near him for a knife to press up the lid.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

If he held on when he reached the mouth of the channel and passed it by, the capture of the ship was absolutely inevitable.
— from For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady

One convoy which said it had been waiting there for two days, had with it hundreds of oxen, and was on the point of pushing past us, but, at the critical moment, a friendly officer came to the rescue, claiming that our horses should have precedence of oxen, and he shouted and insisted and bluffed and pushed, both our column and his own, which was even smaller now than ours, into the line.
— from The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere by M. A. (Mabel Annie) Stobart

Delay threw me into the clutches of Lady Kane herself, on whom I looked with as composed a visage as I could command, while she leaned out of her carriage chattering at me, and sometimes over my head to passing gentlemen.
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6 by George Meredith

The ladies of this church had just finished a silk block for a quilt which a home mission church in Washington Territory is making from blocks made in each State in the Union, with the hope of selling it to increase its fund for building a house of worship.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890 by Various

Not for worlds would she have saddened her at such a moment by allowing her to discover that Roger, like themselves, had been robbed of his inheritance, and that, instead of that quiet western home of which she spoke so confidently, her wedded life with him must be spent of necessity in a foreign land.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

His opinion was, that it must be erroneous to imagine that these pyramids were the handiwork of the Israelites.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

He now perceived me to be somebody; my half-offended vanity was appeased, and I accepted his offer with thanks.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft