Madame Montoni had contrived to have the greatest part of what she really did possess, settled upon herself: what remained, though it was totally inadequate both to her husband's expectations, and to his necessities, he had converted into money, and brought with him to Venice, that he might a little longer delude society, and make a last effort to regain the fortunes he had lost.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Logic dependent on fact for its importance, Now, like the geometer and ingenuous theologian that he was, Plato developed the import of moral and logical experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Hence too flows the alleviation that results from "opening out our griefs:" which are thus presented in distinguishable forms instead of the mist, through which whatever is shapeless becomes magnified and (literally) enormous.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, before I conclude, which I must soon do because I am in haste, (having just at this moment nothing to do,) and also have no more room, as you see my paper is done, and I am very tired, and my fingers tingling from writing so much, and lastly, even if I had room, I don't know what I could say, except, indeed, a story which I have a great mind to tell you.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CHAPTER XIV As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed him that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter expressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton’s situation, and her ardent desire to see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as possible, some token of forgiveness by me.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

So consistently does Aristotle draw the line between menial and liberal education that he puts what are now called the "fine" arts, music, painting, sculpture, in the same class with menial arts so far as their practice is concerned.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

As everybody then believed in miracles (at least everybody who dared speak) there was nobody to investigate the reports of such occurrences, to learn whether they were true or false.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He had been shorn, at one cut, of all those mysterious weapons whereby he had been able to make a living easily and to escape the consequences of his actions.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The citizens, I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds- As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This immediately gave me a notion of the height I was perched upon; a sense of sickness and giddiness came over me, and, like Edgar, I prudently resolved— "I'll look no more,
— from Recollections of the War of 1812 by William Dunlop

Agricola uses, throughout, the Roman and the Romanized Greek scales, but in many cases he uses these terms merely as lingual equivalents for the German quantities of his day.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Did you miss anything last evening after I was in?
— from Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird

“Why, I’d al’ays heard it recommended to do as you’d be done by,” replied Climberkin; “so we got the sticks from the Chinamen, and took the flavour out on ’em in a manner as left ’em nuffin to complain of.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

He would not have been surprised by the change if he had had more experience: it would have seemed natural to him that there were fewer people come to hear him when he made good music than when he made bad: for it is not music but the musician in which the greater part of the public is interested: and it is obvious that a musician who is a man and like everybody else is much less interesting than a musician in a child's little trowsers or short frock, who tickles sentimentality or amuses idleness.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

Mr. Caulfield, of Missouri, may have full magneto and lamp equipment, but Mr. Lever, when it comes to a friendly , high-speed spurt for a parcels post service, shows all the latest improvements.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

Your letter of the 20th of July was received from the postoffice on my arrival last evening.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Before proceeding further I must point out that we may dismiss from our minds the possibility of the so-called sea-serpent being merely a large example of those marine serpents of which several species and numerous individuals are known to exist on the coast of many tropical countries, for these are rarely more than from four to six feet in length, although Dampier [277] mentions one which he saw on the northern coast of Australia, which was long (but the length is not specified) and as big as a man’s leg.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould