The overseer lit a pipe, and for an instant lighted up his big moustaches and his sharp, stern-looking, and dignified nose.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And so I do not admire the human being—as an intellectual marvel—as much as I did when I was young, and got him out of books, and did not know him personally.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

This is what most of them did in this matter of the unborn, for I cannot (and never could) think that they seriously believed in their mythology concerning pre-existence: they did and they did not; they did not know themselves what they believed; all they did know was that it was a disease not to believe as they did.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Citizenship, in free countries, is partly a school of society in equality; but citizenship fills only a small place in modern life, and does not come near the daily habits or inmost sentiments.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

But if thou hast not yet read the law about circumcision, and dost not know how great impiety thou art guilty of by neglecting it, read it now."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

If you have other friends whose sorrow makes a contrast with the joy of the person to whom you are writing, nay, even if you yourself are in affliction, do not mention it in such a letter.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The pre-Bering explorations of Northwest America did not extend beyond the northern boundary of California, and had not succeeded in ascertaining a correct outline of the country.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

And do not you, my brother, bearer of the golden wand, bid me tell those decrees which all-seeing Zeus intends.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Why won’t you say something?” Dasha still listened and did not speak.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2: ‘Scorn and derision never come in tears’ Qq; ‘comes’ Ff; and in the same play, IV. 1: ‘O how mine eyes do loath’ Q 1 , altered to ‘doth loath’ in Q 2 F 1 , and restored, evidently by a grammatical reviser, to ‘do loath’ in F 2 F 3 F 4 .
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 1 of 9] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by William Shakespeare

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— from The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

Occasionally one came across small groups of people, evidently of the educated class, ladies and elderly gentlemen in worn-out clothes, shovelling away the early snow and slush under the supervision of a workman, who as taskmaster stood still and did nothing.
— from Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul Dukes

He was young then, only twenty-seven years of age and did not know what fatigue or fear was.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

There was at Coryston, in the gallery, a picture of Elizabeth Tudor in her later years to which Lady Coryston had been often compared; and she, who as a rule disliked any reference to her personal appearance, did not, it was sometimes remarked, resent this particular comparison.
— from The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

His dirty shirt, open at the bosom, exhibited his skin of yellow hue; while his long and dirty nails displayed themselves at his fingers' ends, and his horrid face accorded perfectly with his whimsical dress.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

I have already stated that the Ajetas did not often wait for the death of a person to put him into the ground.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

Captain Crowninshield comes of a distinguished New England family.
— from Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy by George Gibbs

Paul went on in a circuit about the fisherman, crossing the creek lower down, where it was narrower, on a fallen log, and discovered no sign of a foe, though he did come to a bed of wild flowers, the delicate pale blue [Pg 108] of which pleased him so much that he broke off two blossoms and thrust them into his deerskin tunic.
— from The Eyes of the Woods: A Story of the Ancient Wilderness by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler