If he struggles to take a different view of the same class of subjects, he speedily discovers that what is obvious, graceful, and natural, has been exhausted; and, in order to
obtain the indispensable charm of novelty, he is forced upon caricature, and, to avoid being trite, must become extravagant.
Well, once returned from the country, half by the protection of her cousin, half through what we have personally done for her, we shall
obtain from the queen what we desire.
He who
obtains sovereignty by the assistance of the nobles maintains himself with more difficulty than he who comes to it by the aid of the people, because the former finds himself with many around him who consider themselves his equals, and because of this he can neither rule nor manage them to his liking.
Those contraries which are such that the subjects in which they are naturally present, or of which they are predicated, must necessarily contain either the one or the other of them, have no intermediate, but those in the case of which no such necessity
obtains, always have an intermediate.
To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would
obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.
THE CAMEL, when he saw the Bull adorned with horns, envied him and wished that he himself could
obtain the same honors.
I use all the hyperbole of metaphor, and tell what centuries of time and profounds of unthinkable agony and horror can obtain in each interval of all the intervals between the notes of a quick jig played quickly on the piano.
And this is the order of truth, lesser though it be, that man must know and guide his actions by with unswerving certitude that it is absolute truth and that in the universe no other order of truth can obtain.
And what enlargement do you expect to
obtain in this way?
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone,
obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
The young adjutant, an acquaintance of Vronsky, through whom she
obtained her information, and who hoped through Countess Lidia Ivanovna to
obtain a concession, told her that they had finished their business and were going away next day.
It appears to be established, beyond any reasonable doubt, that he was killed (while he was asleep, or immediately on his waking) by being smothered with a pillow from his bed-- that the persons guilty of murdering him are the three Indians-- and that the object contemplated (and achieved) by the crime, was to
obtain possession of the diamond, called the Moonstone.
