Presently, to my intense relief, I saw old Billali hurrying towards us, and even then I could scarcely help smiling at the expression of consternation on his dignified countenance.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[40] Not only does communication involve the creation, out of experiences that are individual and private, of an experience that is common and public but such a common experience becomes the basis for a common and public existence in which every individual, to greater or less extent, participates and is himself a part.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If the possibility of passing the limits of experience be admitted, by means of the dynamical law of the relation of an effect to its cause, what kind of conception shall we obtain by this procedure?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Home to dinner, wife and I and W. Hewer, and after dinner I by water to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret’s, there to talk about Balty’s money, and did present Balty to him to kiss his hand, and then to walk in the Parke, and heard the Italian musique at the Queen’s chapel, whose composition is fine, but yet the voices of eunuchs I do not like like our women, nor am more pleased with it at all than with English voices, but that they do jump most excellently with themselves and their instrument, which is wonderful pleasant; but I am convinced more and more, that, as every nation has a particular accent and tone in discourse, so as the tone of one not to agree with or please the other, no more can the fashion of singing to words, for that the better the words are set, the more they take in of the ordinary tone of the country whose language the song speaks, so that a song well composed by an Englishman must be better to an Englishman than it can be to a stranger, or than if set by a stranger in foreign words.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[ 538 ] Whereas number two, it will be noted, goes on to state that there have been “no serious disturbances of public order save and except” those in Cavite, Batangas, Samar, and Leyte, 11 the magnitude of which has been fully described in previous chapters.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Where matter thus succeeds in dulling the outward life of the soul, in petrifying its movements and thwarting its gracefulness, it achieves, at the expense of the body, an effect that is comic.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

‘Tis an example that I could imitate with all my heart; and I very much approve the fortune of the aged prelate whom I see to have so absolutely stripped himself of his purse, his revenue, and care of his expense, committing them one while to one trusty servant, and another while to another, that he has spun out a long succession of years, as ignorant, by this means, of his domestic affairs as a mere stranger.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If it were anyone but you—but you see I thought you were fickle the first time I saw you and you are so popular and everthing that I can't imagine you really liking me best .
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The wretch was clever enough to make excuses for his late master, whose behaviour he attributed entirely to irritation caused by the ruin of his claim; but as Jewson said, that was not his fault, and he could not stay another hour with a gentleman who used him so.
— from Denis Dent: A Novel by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

But he brushed the thought aside, as he had brushed it aside each time it came to plague him.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

Other Indians had overcome their fears and talked strongly, and at last they decided to abandon every thing in connection with their services.
— from Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 by Myron Eells

“For about eight thousand I could build you a palace.”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

And even then I could find no words to say.
— from The Stark Munro Letters Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 by Arthur Conan Doyle

One sees, in our American life, abundance of people who are everything that is charming and cultivated, but one never sees enough of them.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

[126] CHAPTER XI FOLLOWING HIS ADVICE No further reference was made to the difference between the two friends, but Ambrose had reason to believe a few days later that Miss Dunham was following his advice; for coming out in his yard before breakfast, after a restless night, he was just in time to spy Mrs. Barrows climbing into the gig with Doctor Webb, carrying a basket on her arm and wearing so glorified an expression that it could come of nothing but the opportunity of ministering to the sick.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook

All Neapolitans can act; all are actors; comedians of the greatest, as every traveller is cognizant.
— from The Beautiful Lady by Booth Tarkington

“Dear Lillie, I have been talking about every thing I could think of,” said John, apologetically.
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe