Therefore the feeling of the Sublime in nature is respect for our own destination, which by a certain subreption we attribute to an Object of nature (conversion of respect for the Idea of humanity in our own subject into respect for the Object).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The chancellor advanced, therefore, toward Anne of Austria, and said with a very perplexed and embarrassed air, “And now it remains for me to make the principal examination.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I could say nothing in reply; for who could offer hope, or consolation, to the abject being before me?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

At length, however, several letters arrived at once, and from the most insupportable of my afflictions I was then relieved; for they acquainted me that the horrors of parricide were not in reserve for me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"On this lake," says Herodotus, "it is that the Egyptians represent by night his sufferings whose name I refrain from mentioning; and this representation they call their Mysteries." 17 Osiris, the husband of Isis, was an ancient king of the Egyptians.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

And the said author asks of those that shall read it nothing in return for the vast toil which it has cost him in examining and searching the Manchegan archives in order to bring it to light, save that they give him the same credit that people of sense give to the books of chivalry that pervade the world and are so popular; for with this he will consider himself amply paid and fully satisfied, and will be encouraged to seek out and produce other histories, if not as truthful, at least equal in invention and not less entertaining.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And Last TREASURE ISLAND To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, the author.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody is responsible for her but you.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He had no intellectual respect for religion, but songs of Shyāmā , the dark Mother, would bring tears to his eyes.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

those things shall be handled by me more thoroughly and severely in another connection (under the title "A Contribution to the History of European Nihilism," I refer for this to a work which I am preparing: The Will to Power, an Attempt at a Transvaluation of All Values ).
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Corners the chauffeur negotiated in racing fashion, so that at times two wheels thrashed the empty air; and once or twice the big car swung round as upon a pivot only to recover again in response to the skilled tactics of the driver.
— from Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

"Ingrate!—plunge us into the chilly blasts of the North, in return for our glorious Southern sun?
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Now its rays fell across the North River and lighted up the windows of the tenements in Hell's Kitchen and Poverty Gap.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

"Not I," responded Franklin.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

"I am not Dick Vanner's groom," said Diomé, "but he wants me to hold his horse in the shadow of those pines or under the orchard wall; and I'll hold it as long as he likes, and walk it about half the night in readiness for him, and then I shall know where he is bound for."
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder

If they had sold out to the enemy, they had given him nothing in return for his wages except perhaps a promise to be fulfilled on a Deadline Day.
— from Check and Checkmate by Walter M. Miller

When he had finished, there was no immediate response from the man who presumably had sent two men to their death at the hands of an African cannibal—no denial.
— from A Cruise in the Sky; or, The Legend of the Great Pink Pearl by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

These instances being noted, it remains for us only to remember that the influence of a wife, a lover, a mother, or a friend may be as powerful for evil as for good.
— from Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog by Robert Blatchford

the promontory being known as Cape Disappointment,—a name it received from Lieut. Meares, an English navigator, who, like Capt. Gray, judged from appearances that there was the outlet of a river at that point, but failed to find it, and recorded his failure in the name he assigned to the conspicuous headland which marked the place of his fruitless search.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

Curtius, however, succeeded in crawling out of the pond into which he had fallen; and in commemoration of the incident the pond was named Lake Curtius, which name it retained for centuries afterward, when, not only had all the water disappeared, but the place itself had been filled up, and had been covered with streets and houses.
— from Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott