Early on the following morning he reached Portsmouth; and having despatched his business on shore, endeavoured to elude the populace by taking a by-way to the beach; but a crowd collected in his train, pressing forward to obtain a sight of his face: many were in tears, and many knelt down before him and blessed him as he passed.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Juliette made him a cosy corner in her bedroom, close to her bed.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

We went accordingly to Lough Lomond, one of the most enchanting spots in the whole world; and what with this remedy, which I had every morning fresh from the mountains, and the pure air, and chearful company, I have recovered my flesh and appetite; though there is something still at bottom, which it is not in the power of air, exercise, company, or medicine to remove—These incidents would not touch me so nearly, if I had a sensible confidant to sympathize with my affliction, and comfort me with wholesome advice—I have nothing of this kind, except Win Jenkins, who is really a good body in the main, but very ill qualified for such an office—The poor creature is weak in her nerves, as well as in her understanding; otherwise I might have known the true name and character of that unfortunate youth—But why do I call him unfortunate?
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Black Hawk adopted the ways of the white people, toward the end of his life; and when he died he was buried, near Des Moines, in Christian fashion, modified by Indian custom; that is to say, clothed in a Christian military uniform, and with a Christian cane in his hand, but deposited in the grave in a sitting posture.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Now Nietzsche’s philosophy might be called an attempt at giving back to healthy and normal men innocence and a clean conscience in their desires—NOT to applaud the vulgar sensualists who respond to every stimulus and whose passions are out of hand; not to tell the mean, selfish individual, whose selfishness is a pollution (see Aphorism 33, “Twilight of the Idols”), that he is right, nor to assure the weak, the sick, and the crippled, that the thirst of power, which they gratify by exploiting the happier and healthier individuals, is justified;—but to save the clean healthy man from the values of those around him, who look at everything through the mud that is in their own bodies,—to give him, and him alone, a clean conscience in his manhood and the desires of his manhood.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Such a crime committed in her Convent, and made known to Ambrosio, to the Idol of Madrid, to the Man whom She was most anxious to impress with the opinion of the strictness and regularity of her House!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Instead of the careless, indolent sloven we knew at Oxford, I found him a busy talkative politician; a petit-maitre in his dress, and a ceremonious courtier in his manners.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The generous contumacy of Socrates, as Cicero calls it, has been highly celebrated in all ages; and when joined to the usual modesty of his behaviour, forms a shining character.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided entirely to overlook my nephew’s conduct to you.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

He was certainly attempting a foolhardy feat, and he was doing it with a childlike confidence in himself.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

Thus saying he rode on, passed through the wood we have mentioned,—the dull meadows, and the wooden gates; and entering the high road, was proceeding towards the inn, when an event occurred which effected a considerable change in his plans and purposes.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Mills’s sister-in-law was still with me; but for the last few days I had noticed a complete change in her for which I could not account and which she would explain to me only by pleading indisposition.
— from The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough) by Ungern-Sternberg, Maria Stella Petronilla, Baroness

But as civilization comes in, he says, individualism goes out, and coöperation takes its place.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

There is a continuous chain in human evolution which such ideas as these make us recognize.
— from The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind by Rudolf Steiner

With respect to those made by Kant himself, they are chiefly contained in his main and [Pg 101] elementary work, the Critik der reinen Vernunft ; and they are of a nature to make any man melancholy.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

He pauses, panting, but with the scowl of determination still more intense, and concentrated chiefly in his right eye.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various