Ours is a marriage of the heart; our love is mutual, and that is enough for my happiness.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Two sons were living in Moscow as water-carriers, and one was in the army.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Yes,” he said, “they’re going to dance the cancan—she’s going to lead it.” Makaraig and Pecson redoubled their attention, smiling in anticipation, while Isagani looked away, mortified to think that Paulita should be present at such a show and reflecting that it was his duty to challenge Juanito Pelaez the next day.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Then she fled homeward as quickly as she could, torn and bleeding from the wounds of thorns and briars, but more lacerated in mind, and threw herself upon her bed, distracted.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen’s barracks, it rose towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought when she said to Jean Valjean:— “What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!” Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Had it not been a goddess, it would have become so fertile by the hands of others, that it would not have compelled a man to be rendered barren by his own hands; nor that in the festival of Liber an honourable matron put a wreath on the private parts of a man in the sight of the multitude, where perhaps her husband was standing by blushing and perspiring, if there is any shame left in men; and that in the celebration of marriages the newly-married bride was ordered to sit upon Priapus.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Whatever might be the state to which a tax of this kind reduced the demand for labour, it must always raise wages higher than they otherwise would be in that state; and the final payment of this enhancement of wages must, in all cases, fall upon the superior ranks of people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

At such times we commonly raise our hands to our foreheads, mouths, or chins; but we do not act thus, as far as I have seen, when we are quite lost in meditation, and no difficulty is encountered.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Bill ’lowed I might as well go along o’ he an’ Tom t’ overhaul the bit o’ land they was tryin’ t’ trade; so out we put on the inland road—round Burnt Bight, over the crest o’ Knock Hill, an’ along the alder-fringed path.
— from Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

In northern lands this season never fails to bring to those who understand and love it many an image full of beauty and meaning, with which a child of man might well be satisfied, so far as earthly happiness can satisfy, through all his time on earth.
— from Aslauga's Knight by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de

I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive, and walking about.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All our poetising and thinking, from the highest to the lowest, is marked, and more than marked, by the exaggerated importance bestowed upon the love story as the principal item of our existence.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Spectacular log drives were common in early times in New England, later in New York and Pennsylvania, and still later in Michigan and the other Lake States.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

"Men are living in Massachusetts and Maine who remember that it was not uncommon to find them of more than a hundred feet in height and four or five feet in diameter.
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer