A woman's virtue, if you wish to know about that, may also be easily described: her duty is to order her house, and keep what is indoors, and obey her husband.
— from Meno by Plato

This girl, as affectionate as she was simple, lost in these moments all her former fears of remaining in the chamber, and watched alone by Emily, during the whole night.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It happened, however, that a little before the approach of dawn a voice so musical and sweet reached the ears of the ladies that it forced them all to listen attentively, but especially Dorothea, who had been awake, and by whose side Dona Clara de Viedma, for so the Judge’s daughter was called, lay sleeping.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To confine our description to the heraldic portion of the brass, we find the following arms upon the mantle:— "Quarterly, 1. argent, a bend sable, within a bordure engrailed azure (Knevet); 2. argent, a bend azure, and chief, gules (Cromwell); 3. chequy or and gules, a chief ermine (Tatshall); 4. chequy or and gules, a bend ermine (De Cailly or Clifton); 5. paly of six within a bordure bezanté....
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

To have an ambition to grow larger and broader every day, to push the horizon of ignorance a little further away, to become a little richer in knowledge, a little wiser, and more of a man—that is an ambition worth while.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Such thought, or rather such dim unshaped raw-material of a thought, ferments universally under the female night-cap; and, by earliest daybreak, on slight hint, will explode.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

However, in other respects the manner in which this has been accomplished by Euclid deserves all the praise which has been bestowed on him through so many centuries, and which has been carried so far that his method of treating mathematics has been set up as the pattern of all scientific exposition.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The locality was intended as a help to the soldiers in their quarterings upon this account; but afterwards, being expressly discharged to be furnished, without payment according to the current rates of the country, Act 3. par.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

And, aside to his daughter, “He grows more of a Beaudrillart every day.
— from An Interloper by Frances Mary Peard

He did it, and became every day more and more miserable.
— from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The laissez-faire view of government was to all appearances becoming entirely dominant.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

Della wrote that she was using her mother's machine and was learning how better and better every day.
— from Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

The most elegant and brilliant evening dress, if worn in the daytime in a railroad car, strikes every one with a sense of absurdity; whereas both these 400 objects in appropriate associations would excite only the idea of beauty.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I don't know the name of any book except Diamond Dick and The Curse of Gold , and I didn't know how to rig up fer them.
— from Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates