She said, with a grim implacability in voice and manner which made Tom almost realize that even a former slave can remember for ten minutes insults and injuries returned for compliments and flatteries received, and can also enjoy taking revenge for them when the opportunity offers: “What does I know?
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

ANT: Fail, stop, cease, revert, rebate, miss, drop.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"Drive out nature with a fork, she comes running back."
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

At first she coldly rejected all offers of service, and said that she was contented, and wanted for nothing.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Few fellows had talents like his and fewer still could remain unspoiled by such success.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

“They want to be kept down, sir, to be kept down; nothing but the strong hand—the iron heel—will do for them,” he would frequently say of the French people; and his ideal of a fine showy clever rule was that of the superseded Empire.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

"How! not vanquished?" said he of the Grove; "by the heaven that is above us I fought Don Quixote and overcame him and made him yield; and he is a man of tall stature, gaunt features, long, lank limbs, with hair turning grey, an aquiline nose rather hooked, and large black drooping moustaches; he does battle under the name of 'The Countenance,' and he has for squire a peasant called Sancho Panza; he presses the loins and rules the reins of a famous steed called Rocinante; and lastly, he has for the mistress of his will a certain Dulcinea del Toboso, once upon a time called Aldonza Lorenzo, just as I call mine Casildea de Vandalia because her name is Casilda and she is of Andalusia.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She could confer favours, but, save from her mother and father, she could receive none.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

That sensitive nerves and an aching heart should succumb, at last, to despair and loneliness and fasting she could readily understand, and she answered, kindly: “I heard no bird, dear child, but it may be there.
— from The Pines of Lory by John Ames Mitchell

"The lion can spring from nine to twelve yards at a leap, and for a few seconds can repeat these bounds with such activity and velocity as to outstrip the movements of the quickest horse; but he can not continue these amazing efforts and does not attempt it.
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

Then when all was ready, she got up cautiously, and walking away a few steps, called Rough very sweetly.
— from The House That Grew by Mrs. Molesworth

The Twenty-First United States Colored Troops was made up of the old Third and Fourth South Carolina regiments, and many of them were formerly slaves in the city of Charleston.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

For herself she had no fear; she knew La Mole well, and felt she could rely on him.
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

It was the sole event in the Sports for which Katrine would compete; she affected to consider running and jumping only fit for juniors, and stood aloof from such "childish recreations" (as she termed them), greatly to the indignation and scorn of the monitresses, who held a brief for athletics.
— from The Jolliest Term on Record: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

Of course she had chosen to go alone; it was quite her own doing; but I could not help thinking, uneasily at times, that she would not have gone at all if she had not noticed how anxious we were about her, and fancied she could relieve us of our trouble by relieving us of her presence.
— from Ideala by Sarah Grand

He then returned to the great hall, where he had supped the night before, and found some chocolate ready made on a little table.
— from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont