A new Kaverine Eugene mine, Dreading the world's remarks malign, Was that which we are wont to call A fop, in dress pedantical.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

After the play was over we drew round the little tables, and the saké cup passed freely from hand to hand; Awa no [pg 263] Kami vowed that the Admiral was his father, and Sir Harry his elder brother, while Awaji no Kami expressed himself to me in a similarly affectionate manner.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

And not knowing exactly what I was doing I pulled with all my might at the bell at the Dolyhikovs' gate, broke it, and ran away down the street like a little boy, full of fear, thinking they would rush out at once and recognise me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He must know Adam, and might tell him where she was gone, for it is difficult to country people to believe that those who make a figure in their own parish are not known everywhere else, and it was equally difficult to Hetty to understand that chance words could happen to apply closely to her circumstances.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Whoever failed in respect towards them in the slightest manner was sure of disgrace, and no king ever possessed to a greater extent the grand royal virtue which is called dissimulation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We see no new-built palaces aspire, No kitchens emulate the vestal fire.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

A one-talent man who decides upon a definite object accomplishes more than a ten-talent man who scatters his energies and never knows exactly what he will do.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"A love affair," she muttered, angrily, and noted keenly every movement of the two.
— from Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Whether they were ill-treated after he died, and thus had reason to deplore his removal, or merely desired Heaven in the abstract, nothing known enables me to assert.
— from The Civil War in America Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Very young girls are apt to suppose, from what they observe in older ones, that there is some particular manner to be put on, in talking to gentlemen, and, not knowing exactly what it is, they are embarrassed and reserved; others observe certain airs and looks, used by their elders in this intercourse, and try to imitate them, as a necessary part of company behaviours, and, so become affected, and lose that first of charms, simplicity, [20] natural grace.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Anstice never knew, either then or afterwards, exactly how the miracle had come about.
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes

At last he had found a way to make all nations know each other.
— from Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison by Hattie E. Macomber

[Pg 321] The Kangaroo rats ( Hypsiprymnus cuniculus , Ogilby, and H. murinus , Ill.) are small animals, like kangaroos in their form and mode of progression, but require few remarks, as they are not killed either for food or their skins.
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

He, himself, was decorated, although nobody knew exactly what he had done to deserve such a distinction.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 08 by Guy de Maupassant

Its frontier did not need any regular defence, as the allied Numidian kingdom everywhere separated it from the inhabitants of the desert.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen