They look upon all those whom this state of society has made their equals as oppressors, whose destiny can excite no sympathy; they have lost sight of their former equals, and feel no longer bound by a common interest to their fate: each of them, standing aloof, thinks that he is reduced to care for himself alone.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This gentleman had in his youth married a very worthy and beautiful woman, of whom he had been extremely fond: by her he had three children, all of whom died in their infancy.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

To deceive him Is no deceit, but justice, that would break Such an inextricable tie as ours was. DOL.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

The bellringer retreated several paces behind the archdeacon, and suddenly hurling himself upon him with fury, with his huge hands he pushed him by the back over into the abyss over which Dom Claude was leaning.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Pierre’s subjection consisted in the fact that he not only dared not flirt with, but dared not even speak smilingly to, any other woman; did not dare dine at the Club as a pastime, did not dare spend money on a whim, and did not dare absent himself for any length of time, except on business—in which his wife included his intellectual pursuits, which she did not in the least understand but to which she attributed great importance.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

However, as there is never but one watch below at a time, by 'turning in and out,' we did pretty well.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

She drew in her breath sharply as one whose doubts are resolved.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Discontented with the world and with himself, Leo depreciated his present enjoyments, while absent persons and objects were dear to his imagination.
— 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

All this was voted at once without debate, in a sort of great unanimous confusion, and in the midst of a storm of fierce conversations.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

She was parry lized with fright, but she went, and oh, what do you think he did?
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Why, gentlemen, it is the grandest, as it is the most characteristic, device by which humanity protects men against atrocities which they might otherwise perpetrate upon each other—that little white flag, showing itself like a speck of divine snow on the red and bloody field of battle; coming covered all over with divinity; coming in the hand of peace, who rejoices to see another place where her foot may rest; welcome as the dove which returned to the ark; coming, I say, in the hand of peace, who is the great conqueror, and before whom the power of armies and the bad ambitions and great struggles of men must ultimately be extinguished.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

The extraordinary amount of work demanded extraordinary stoking, and his stomach was unaccustomed to great quantities of bacon and of the coarse, highly poisonous brown beans.
— from Smoke Bellew by Jack London

We was accustomed to 'ave our washin' done for us in our other billets, but when the second Sunday come at Mrs. Larkins's and there wasn't no sign of a clean shirt we felt obliged to mention it to 'er.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 by Various

I do not dwell upon that thought further than to say that I beseech you to think of Jesus Christ, not as One who died for our sins only, but as one who lives to-day, and to-day, in no rhetorical exaggeration but in simple and profound truth, is ready to help and to bless and to be with every one of us.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

This seemed so clear to me, the more I thought, as to make me surmise, that, if I attempted what had so little promise in it, I should find that the highest Catholic authority was against the attempt, and that I should have spent my time and my thought, in doing what either it would be imprudent to bring before the public at all, or what, did I do so, would only complicate matters further which were already complicated more than enough.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

But the disparity in age was not greatly apparent, for Dick had the growth and manners of eighteen rather than seventeen, and one who didn’t know the truth might well have thought him as old as either Stanley or Rusty.
— from Quarter-Back Bates by Ralph Henry Barbour

“sheriff of New London, for that said persons, with sundry other persons, on Sunday, Aug. 12th, 1764, did, in a very high-handed, tumultuous manner, being in N. L. prison, bar up the doors of said prison on the justice, so that said sheriff and officers were denied and prevented admission into and possession of said prison, and made a most tumultuous noise and uproar &c. as pr. writ.”
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles