And to those who were alarmed at dreams he said, that they did not regard what they do while they are awake, but make a great fuss about what they fancy they see while they are asleep.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Two nights and a day he spent in the cabin.
— from White Fang by Jack London

There shot no glance from Ellen's eye, To give her steadfast speech the lie; In maiden confidence she stood, Though mantled in her cheek the blood And told her love with such a sigh Of deep and hopeless agony, As death had sealed her Malcolm's doom
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

It can be urged with more justice that as, when you snarl at a dog, he snarls in return, and when you pet him, he fawns; so it lies in the nature of men to return hostility by hostility, and to be embittered and irritated at any signs of depreciatory treatment or hatred: and, as Cicero says, there is something so penetrating in the shaft of envy that even men of wisdom and worth find its wound a painful one ; and nowhere in the world, except, perhaps, in a few religious sects, is an insult or a blow taken with equanimity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

And as he from shame threw it away and departed, he soon afterwards met him and, laughing, said to him, “A saperda has dissolved your friendship for me.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I do not expect the schoolmaster to hate hospitals and C.O.S. centers so much as the schoolboy’s father; but does he hate them at all? Does he sympathize in the least with the poor man’s point of honor against official institutions?
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As a divine, he seemed never to have had any difficulty on any subject; he was so clear or so shallow, that he saw to the bottom of all his thoughts: or, since Dr. Johnson {68} tells us that "all shallows are clear," we may perhaps distinguish him by both epithets.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

“Didn't you get your own way about anything?” demanded her sister, with eager curiosity.
— from Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

exclaimed the colonel in a husky voice, again almost driving his stick through the bottom of the carriage.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

In a few minutes sleep had sealed her eyes, but the Christian girl lay awake; her thoughts would not rest, and Sleep, who the night before had taken her to his heart, to-night would not come near her pillow; so much to agitate and disturb her soul had taken place during the day.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers

The captain became angry, and drew his sword with a threat to run the corpse through for causing so much dissension among his men.
— from Philippine Folk-Tales by Laura Estelle Watson Benedict

After a dog has showed he can find the trail, an' keep it, an' set the pace, an' make the others mind him, bein' a loose leader's kind of an honor
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

Thérèse sank back upon a sofa, and again drew her shawl over her head.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

Unable to accomplish anything, the Quedak released his barbs, and, taking careful aim, accurately drove his sting home between the black beast's eyes.
— from Meeting of the Minds by Robert Sheckley