How strange it is that we do not often dream of latest events, absorbing as they may be.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

"It cannot be doubted," says Chancellor Kent in his "Treatise on American Law," "that the division of landed estates must produce great evils when it is carried to such excess as that each parcel of land is insufficient to support a family; but these disadvantages have never been felt in the United States, and many generations must elapse before they can be felt.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Everybody was melancholy, and seeing that I was the cause I began to talk about England, where I hoped to make my fortune with a project of mine, the success of which only depended on Lord Egremont.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

2 Isocrates, for instance, from an ambitious desire of lending everything a strong rhetorical colouring, shows himself in quite a childish light.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

I have sent him word," he continues, "by Sieur Juchereau, who took back the two Hurons and Outaouas chiefs this winter, to join Sieur du Lhu at the Detroit of Lake Erie, so that they may be stronger, and in a condition to resist the enemy, should he go to meet them at Niagara."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Among writers of that age he stands almost alone in his disdain of literary effects.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Since the death of little Edward a great change had taken place in Monte Cristo.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I prefer the risk of being doubted to that of being anticipated, and have therefore concealed my destination on leaving England, as also the point from which I began my more serious and difficult journey.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding to “a woman’s longing.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

From the Birth of Lord Loughborough, in 1733, to the Death of Lord Eldon, in 1838.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

She was not happy at the prospect of so abruptly quitting the delights of Lane End House and the vicinity of Edwin Clayhanger; she was not happy at the prospect of postponing the consideration of plans for her own existence; she was not happy at the prospect of Sarah Gailey's pessimistic complainings.
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

And now, Fanny,” he continued, his voice again trembling from the excess of his anxiety, “if you feel that you can never bring yourself to look upon me in any other light than as a brother, I will adhere to my determination of leaving England, and trust to time to reconcile me to my fate; but if, by waiting months, nay years, I may hope one day to call you my own, gladly will I do so—gladly will I submit to any conditions you may impose.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

During our little expedition to the Copper-Mine River Mr. Wentzel had made great progress in the erection of our winter-house having nearly roofed it in.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Not only does our Lord empower His Apostles to preach the Gospel, but He commands, and under the most severe penalties, those to whom
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

=Francis III., Duke of Lorraine; exchanged Lorraine for Tuscany; el.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

I much regret my inability to do justice to living and to recently deceased authors in this department of literary effort.
— from The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

The discontinuances of lavish expenditure on military expeditions improved the state finances, and enabled those at the head of the government to employ the money, that would otherwise have been wasted, in reproductive undertakings.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

But land had changed hands: they had a vague sense of impending change and of the discomfort of change; and, as they answered their Member's questions, the very presence in their midst of this man who moved behind the scenes of the drama of large events accentuated this feeling.
— from Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Among the "articles of a treaty made at St. Louis in the district of Louisiana between William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana territory and of the district of Louisiana [etc., etc.] of the one part, and the chiefs and head men of the united Sac and Fox tribes of the other part," there is one defining the boundary thus: " Article 2.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike