“But do tell me, please, I never could make it out,” said Anna, after being silent for some time, speaking in a tone that showed she was not asking an idle question, but that what she was asking was of more importance to her than it should have been; “do tell me, please, what are her relations with Prince Kaluzhsky, Mishka, as he’s called?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I had seen nothing like this since I went away, and it quite dashed my hopes for my friend.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Thus the vital elements, which in their comparative isolation in the lower animals might have yielded simple little dramas, each with its obvious ideal, its achievement, and its quietus, when mixed in the barbarous human will make a boisterous medley.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

If this is true, it is safer to avoid the assumption that there are such intrinsic qualities of mental occurrences as are in question, and to assume only the causal differences which are undeniable.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Now when this calamity was come upon the men of Ai, there were a great number of children, and women, and servants, and an immense quantity of other furniture.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It enjoins him to be careful, and cut his work into as thin slices as possible, inasmuch as by so doing the business of boiling out the oil is much accelerated, and its quantity considerably increased, besides perhaps improving it in quality.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start up from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which, streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf, and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

These changes are almost imperceptible, but they do not escape me; I am anxious and I question Emile in private, and I learn that, to his great regret, and in spite of all entreaties, he was not permitted last night to share Sophy’s bed.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ut tremere in terra videatur ab artubus id quod Decidit abscissum; cum mens tamen atque hominis vis Mobilitate mali, non quit sentire dolorem.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The top of the couch is adjustable, and is quickly placed at the elevation which secures the proper force of the instrument, as shown in Fig 11.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Something, it is true, depends upon the string and upon the bowing, but we are here supposing the same string and the same player, our object being to show how the resonator , which, in this case, is the body of the violin, intensifies the tone of the string, and affects its quality.
— from The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke

My acquaintance with them did not terminate with the period which sent me forth into the wide world a traveller for gain or pleasure, an adventurer in quest of wealth or happiness.
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones

And now comes another and an important question.
— from Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

THE SOLDIER Cum fortis armatus custodit atrium suum, &c. Si autem fortior eo superveniens vicerit eum, universa ejus arma aufert, in quibus confidebat.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

The people talk cheerfully, and all is quiet; groups of cottages.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

How popular this game had been, you may judge from Gay's ballad, which represents all classes as absorbed in quadrille.{2} Then the facility of locomotion dissipates, annihilates neighbourhood.
— from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

In spite of himself Aylmer gave an almost imperceptible quiver of surprise.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile

“ O , señor ,” said she, on seeing me, “they are already in quest of you; the alcalde of the barrio , with a large comitiva of alguazils and such-like people, have just been at our house with a warrant for your imprisonment from the corregidor .
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow