And you expect me to be open with such scoffers as you, who see nothing and believe in nothing, blind moles and scoffers, and to tell you another nasty thing I've done, another disgrace, even if that would save me from your accusation!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Ball Is Not A Dancing School Since a girl may not without rudeness refuse to dance with a man who "cuts in," a man who does not know how to dance is inexcusably inconsiderate if he "cuts in" on a good dancer and compels a young girl to become instructress for his own pleasure with utter disregard of hers.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

There had been time before I passed under the Dragon's wings to meet my enemy over and over again, but I never saw him once, and now refuge was close at hand.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

This antagonistic behavior is not entirely comprehensible to me.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Our party to Ashe to-morrow night will consist of Edward Cooper, James (for a ball is nothing without him), Buller, who is now staying with us, and I. I look forward with great impatience to it, as I rather expect to receive an offer from my friend in the course of the evening.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

His wife, his son, his uncle, (a barber in name and profession,) exposed the contrast of vulgar manners and princely expense; and without acquiring the majesty, Rienzi degenerated into the vices, of a king.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sir, said she, you can see farther than such a poor silly woman as I am; but I never saw any thing but innocence in her—And virtue too, I'll warrant ye! said he.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

was desired, that whole communities have ventured their liberty, and become, if not slaves, yet nearly approaching the condition of slaves, to the protector.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

hinangkan, hingangkan n hen that has raised a brood. ig-(←) n relative of any sort.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Pg 87] is almost as bad, if not worse, than being in jail, for one can take little or no exercise, and the only light and ventilation afforded is from the roof, where there is an aperture about two feet wide, over which there is a sliding door.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

—Intervals n and o = 0.4 of an inch: A, B inductric positive, discharge at both intervals, most at n , by positive sparks; A, B inductric negative, discharge equal at n and o .
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

“Uncle David!” said Harry, laughing, “we have read in the Arabian Nights, about people being turned into animals, but I never thought you would turn Laura into a horse!
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

And so, throughout, the aim of the pen draughtsman is to suggest , rather than to portray things exactly as they are. Lines, scratches, or dots, cannot pretend to imitate leafy foliage; and, be it noted, the same lines, scratches, or dots, may be similarly employed, in the same drawing, to suggest something quite different.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

When the whole amphitheatre was entire 190 , a child might comprehend its design in a moment, and go direct to his place without straying in the porticoes; for each arcade bears its number engraved, and opposite each arcade was a staircase.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

A Baronet is not a Marquis, nor is a Duke an Earl.’
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

Its subject, full of quotations from Treitschke, Nietzsche, and Bernhardi, is not new to Americans.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

" We shall reply to him, First , That the idea of an immaterial substance; or being without extent, is only an absence of ideas, a negation of extent, as we have already shewn; that when we are told a being is not matter, they speak to us of that which is not, and do not teach us that which is; because by insisting that a being is such, that it cannot act upon any of our senses, they, in fact, inform us that we have no means of assuring ourselves whether such being exists or not.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'