She had sighed for her self-completeness then, and now she cried aloud against the severance of the union she had deplored.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

"My dear Friend, "If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I gave him a name so common as to tell him nothing whatever about me, but he seemed to care very little about that.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On Sunday we sat for two hours in the presence of the greatest Buddhist priest in Japan, and you can guess whether we wriggled and if my feet were asleep if you try the pose for a few minutes yourself, even on a nice soft cushion as we were.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

“Well, I guess you are not so clever as our people, for they only keep it as long as it suits them.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Auauntage , sb. superiority, advantage, NED, S3, C; auantage , S2, C3.—AF. avantage , from avant , before.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The long childhood in the human race has made it possible and needful to transmit acquired experience: possible, because the child's brain, being immature, allows instincts and habits to be formed after birth, under the influence of that very environment in which they are to operate; and also needful, since children are long incapable of providing for themselves and compel their parents, if the race is not to die out, to continue their care, and to diversify it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The first process is undoubtedly the simplest, as after printing upon the paper it is developed and fixed by simple immersion in cold water; but, at the same time, the white lines on the blue ground are not so clear and effective as the other processes.
— from Photographic Amusements, Ninth Edition Including A Description of a Number of Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera by Walter E. Woodbury

But we ask no such charity at his hands.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

A NEW SONG COMPOSED AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE WEST PHILADELPHIA MUSICAL CLUB, BY CHARLES E. CATHRALL.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by Various

However intently these birds may seem to be occupied with the business before them, they are not so completely absorbed therein as to be utterly oblivious to their surroundings.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

On November 7th he reached the shores of France and having obtained from the government permission to reconnoitre the mouths of the Mississippi, he left in 1698 and never saw Canada again.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Until common minds doubt respecting religion they can never receive any new scientific conclusion at variance with it—as Joshua and Copernicus."—Ibid.
— from Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener

"Yee and amen!" exclaimed Eldress Abby, devoutly: "For thus saith the Lord of hosts: I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts."
— from Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

"I must have time to think it over," said the stout Cointet; "I am not so clever as my brother.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac