If you hold the beauty thought, the love thought, persistently in the mind, you will make such an impression of harmony and sweetness wherever you go that no one will notice any plainness or deformity of person.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

She was a member of the Reverend Frank's congregation, and made a point of distinguishing herself in that body, by conspicuously weeping at everything, however cheering, said by the Reverend Frank in his public ministration; also by applying to herself the various lamentations of David, and complaining in a personally injured manner (much in arrear of the clerk and the rest of the respondents) that her enemies were digging pit-falls about her, and breaking her with rods of iron.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This dative is used with such verbs or verbal expressions as mean am pleasing or displeasing , helpful or injurious , command , yield , or am obedient , am friendly , partial , or opposed ; spare , pardon , threaten , trust , advise , persuade , happen , meet .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

v 1 [A; ac1] make muttering noises in angry protest or displeasure.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The prince, in order to prevent the execution of his father's menaces, began to put himself into a posture of defence; and many of the orthodox persuasion in Spain declared for him.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

± lūtan 2 to bend, stoop, decline , Æ, AO : +loten dæg after part of day : bow, make obeisance, fall down , Bl, VPs : (+) lay down , MtL 8 20 : entreat .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

and I are past our dancing days; How long is’t now since last yourself
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He had given the enemy a breathing time, they said, of thirty days, being no less than they required to put themselves in a posture of defence.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

They now show actual goodness and purity of disposition, true abhorrence of doing any act in the least degree bad or unkind.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

For a psychological law invariably realised in my conduct does not admit of being conceived as ‘a precept’ or ‘dictate’ of reason: this latter must be a rule from which I am conscious that it is possible to deviate.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

On the right, Major-General Keane's column had, though reduced to half its strength, succeeded in passing the ditches near their junction with the marsh, and pushed on desperately to the palisade.
— from The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis

When at Rome do as the Romans do, I held to be so good a proverb, that being in Typee I made a point of doing as the Typees did.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

As we were a pair of dumb, awkward Englishmen, we only gazed a half-minute, staring into each other’s eyes, with a delightful feeling of understanding each other, and then burst out both at once with, “Isn’t that beautiful?”
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley

There was no hitch in their plans, and they spent a fairly decent night, marred only by the frequent barking of a pack of dogs from town, that seemed to have banded together for a coon hunt, or something along that order.
— from Camp Mates in Michigan; or, with Pack and Paddle in the Pine Woods by St. George Rathborne

Finally, Mrs. Morison, with the American woman’s sense of conversational responsibility, rushed into the breach, after peremptorily motioning to her husband to sit beside her on the little sofa: here was an opportunity for a parade of domestic American bliss.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

That is the blessedness and the power of Christian morality, that it is keeping close at Christ's heels, and that instead of its being said to us, 'Go,' He says, 'Come,' and instead of our being bid to hew out for ourselves a path of duty, He says to us, 'He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

Ordway informed me that the party with him had Come on very well, and he thought the Canoes could go as farst as the horses &c. as the river now become wider and not So Sholl, I deturmined to put all the baggage &c. which I intend takeing with me to the river Rochejhone in the canoes and proceed on down with them myself to the 3 forks or Madisons & galletens rivers.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In the incident just recorded, the doctor probably had not, as a matter of fact, been stating his real opinions, though for the moment he may have imagined that he was an uncompromising "Paper-money man" or "Greenbacker," as a member of one of the minor political parties of the day was termed: the little man was poor, and Doctor Castleton had simply been drawing for him a picture of delights—at least, so I conjectured.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake