And lastly, its speculative opinions involve the same ethical conclusions, and lead in like manner to a rigid asceticism.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In the border towns, every Welshman who desires to assert his national right wears the leek in his hat or elsewhere on his person; but in the shadow of St. David’s College at Lampeter, not a leek is seen on St. Dewi’s Day.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I had a very happy New Year, after all, and when I thought it over in my room, I felt as if I was getting on a little in spite of my many failures, for I'm cheerful
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

the years Have lost their ancient leader, and no word Breaks from the voiceless tripod on our ears: While as a ruined mother in some spasm Bears a base child and loathes it, so our best enthusiasm Genders unlawful children, Anarchy Freedom’s own Judas, the vile prodigal Licence who steals the gold of Liberty And yet has nothing, Ignorance the real One Fraticide since Cain, Envy the asp That stings itself to anguish, Avarice whose palsied grasp Is in its extent stiffened, moneyed Greed For whose dull appetite men waste away Amid the whirr of wheels and are the seed Of things which slay their sower, these each day Sees rife in England, and the gentle feet Of Beauty tread no more the stones of each unlovely street.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

While trudging along they saw a big bird hovering in the air, circling slowly above them, but always descending lower, till at last it settled on a rock not far from them.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of [Pg 269] stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in some one's eyes.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But this condition did not come all at once: I think indeed that I anticipate a little in speaking of it now.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

His "splendid indignation" alone relieves him somewhat, it is a pleasure for all poor devils to grumble—it gives them a little intoxicating sensation of power.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But the experimental fact was so well known to prehistoric man that he employed this method, as various savage tribes employ it to this day, for the altogether practical purpose of making a fire; just as he employed his practical knowledge of the mutability of solids and liquids in smelting ores, in alloying copper with tin to make bronze, and in casting this alloy in molds to make various implements and weapons.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she only is my leader.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2 by Chautauqua Institution

There sometimes silence (it were hard to tell Who owned it first) upon the circle fell, Hushed Anna's busy wheel, and laid its spell On the black boy who grimaced by the hearth, To solemnize his shining face of mirth; Only the old clock ticked amidst the dearth Of sound; nor eye was raised nor hand was stirred In that soul-sabbath, till at last some word Of tender counsel or low prayer was heard.
— from Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

"'Bow to the wittiest, Kneel to the prettiest, And kiss the one he loves best.'" Like most sensible mothers, Mrs. Adams had a horror of anything like kissing games; and now she frowned a little, in spite of herself.
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray

At last, in spite of the little quiver which [Pg 581] she was unable to master, Thérèse exclaimed energetically, 'You are right, grandfather.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

Uncounted good men have to confess to-day that in their younger days they never did achieve liberation in spite of constant efforts.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray

Indeed, I have sometimes been amazed to find Christian people actually lacking in subjects of conversation, while the two persons knew each of the other that he was a Christian.
— from Around the Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

And lo! in spite of ourselves, we are in reality engaged in an internecine struggle for existence with our presumably no less peaceful and well-meaning neighbours.
— from Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley

In spite of the noise and laughter, in spite of the row of empty bottles which grew longer and longer under the side-board, it was a dreary, uncomfortable meal, and to no one more so than to the master of the house.
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen