His chivalrous manners to women, and his elevated moral sentiments, being both gratuitous and unusual, strike them as being a little unfortunate; and though they find his vein of easy humor rather amusing when it has ceased to puzzle them (as it does at first), they have had to make him understand that he really must not tell anecdotes unless they are strictly personal and scandalous, and also that oratory is an accomplishment which belongs to a cruder stage of civilization than that in which his migration has landed him.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

A desperate dull life hers must be with the doctor,” making a sly face as he spoke towards the chair of the latter, who proving, however, to be close at his elbow, made so instantaneous a change of expression and subject necessary, as Fanny, in spite of everything, could hardly help laughing at.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

In the momentary annoyance at her early marriage she recalls the time when the early marriage was a wish-fulfillment for her, because she had satisfied her curiosity; and she now replaces the marriage, guided by the old wish-impulse, with the going to the theatre.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

This person, I say, after having eyed me some time, said, “Oho, 'tis ver well, Monsieur Concordance; young man, you are ver welcome, take one coup of bierre—and come to mine house to-morrow morning; Monsieur Concordance vil show you de way.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The bystanders, on and off the dining-room chairs, raised a murmur of sympathy with Mrs. Pegler, and Mr. Gradgrind felt himself innocently placed in a very distressing predicament, when Mr. Bounderby, who had never ceased walking up and down, and had every moment swelled larger and larger, and grown redder and redder, stopped short.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

In the ablative, gender substantives have usually -e , and neuters and adjectives have -ī : as, hoste , enemy ; marī , sea ; ācrī , sharp , brevī , short , audācī , daring .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For he that doth wrong must look to be wronged again; habet et musca splenem, et formicae sua bills inest .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And hence every man sees himself obliged to act in accordance with what the idea of right prescribes, whether his neighbours fulfil their obligation or not.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

“Ilka ane it has its blessings; Peevish dinna pass them by; Seek them out like bonnie berries, Tho’ amang the thorns they lie.” In 1824, “The Scottish Minstrel” was completed in six volumes, royal octavo, and Mr. Purdie and his editor, Mr. Smith, still believing “B. B.” to stand for Mrs. Bogan of Bogan, said, “In particular the editors would have felt happy in being permitted to enumerate the many original and beautiful verses that adorn their pages, for which they are indebted to the author of the much admired song, ‘The Land o’ the Leal;’ but they fear to wound a delicacy which shrinks from all observation.”
— from Model Women by William Anderson

As he entered my salon, at some crowded reception, he would wave aside the valet about to announce his name, and shout in a stentorian voice: "Massenet!"...
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

He ordered the mayor of Nauvoo to send Mormons to him to explain why they had destroyed the printing-press, and when he had heard their story the governor told them that Smith and his elders must surrender to him, or the whole military force of the state would be called out to capture them.
— from Historic Adventures: Tales from American History by Rupert Sargent Holland

An' I know he'd 'a' done it, fer he thought a heap er me, Sam did.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

The crackle of a foot on a dead willow-twig roused her, and her eyes met St. Vincent's.
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

As he enters, Mamma’s sharp eye notes his flushed face and [402] exaggerated swagger, and she greets him with an indignant sniff.
— from Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch

Often within the space of a few seconds, to the accompaniment of a heavy earthquake, many square miles of territory are bodily uplifted, while neighboring areas may be relatively depressed.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

Upon this Albert's minister drew back with the air of one amazed, asking how and when the Archduke had ever made such a promise.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He was a very gentle, amiable, good humoured boy, ever ready to oblige, and not easily put out of temper, and though in some respects his being an only son had been to his disadvantage, he was not spoilt like the little Prince, and had even made some progress in habits of self-control.
— from The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale. by Francis Edward Paget