The old people were obviously muddled for a moment, and did not quite know whether it was they who were in love again or their daughter.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The reason this talk was made about the Osages was, that they prided themselves upon their warriors and manhood, and did not wish to make peace.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

If I see, clearly see, that ladder leading from plant to man, why should I suppose it breaks off at me and does not go farther and farther?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; 25 for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Every circumstance that relates to this prince appears of a mixed and doubtful nature.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Mrs Smith's enjoyments were not spoiled by this improvement of income, with some improvement of health, and the acquisition of such friends to be often with, for her cheerfulness and mental alacrity did not fail her; and while these prime supplies of good remained, she might have bid defiance even to greater accessions of worldly prosperity.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

He comes to it for the first time—all that he has been reading of it all his life, and that the most enthusiastic part of life,—all he has gathered from narratives of wandering seamen; what he has gained from true voyages, and what he cherishes as credulously from romance and poetry; crowding their images, and exacting strange tributes from expectation.—He thinks of the great deep, and of those who go down unto it; of its thousand isles, and of the vast continents it washes; of its receiving the mighty Plata, or Orellana, into its bosom, without disturbance, or sense of augmentation; of Biscay swells, and the mariner For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant labouring round the stormy Cape; of fatal rocks, and the "still-vexed Bermoothes;" of great whirlpools, and the water-spout; of sunken ships, and sumless treasures swallowed up in the unrestoring depths: of fishes and quaint monsters, to which all that is terrible on earth— Be but as buggs to frighten babes withal, Compared with the creatures in the sea's entral; of naked savages, and Juan Fernandez; of pearls, and shells; of coral beds, and of enchanted isles; of mermaids' grots— I do not assert that in sober earnest he expects to be shown all these wonders at once, but he is under the tyranny of a mighty faculty, which haunts him with confused hints and shadows of all these; and when the actual object opens first upon him, seen (in tame weather too most likely) from our unromantic coasts—a speck, a slip of sea-water, as it shows to him—what can it prove but a very unsatisfying and even diminutive entertainment?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The Xeriffes of Barbary keep their courtesans in such a strict manner, that if any man come but in sight of them he dies for it; and if they chance to see a man, and do not instantly cry out, though from their windows, they must be put to death.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She pondered a moment, and did not answer him.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

The classes into which objects are divided by these numerous signs are minute, and do not appear to follow any scientific method or arrangement.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

When these particulars are attended to, the product is a bright transparent liquor as soon as made, and does not require fining.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

A gilded candle was burning before his smoky features, and every night and morning a dozen natives crossed themselves and said their prayers to a major-general in the United States Army!
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

I have no ambition to be a martyr, and determined not to be caught if I could avoid it."
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

In the Albanian märchen ,** a dog , not a cow nor a ram, gives warning of the danger.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Sokos collect together, and make a drumming noise, some say with hollow trees, then burst forth into loud yells which are well imitated by the natives' embryotic music.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

Apart from the risk of being utterly crushed, there was a strong political reason against it, as Mr. Arlington did not fail to point out.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang