He told me he was going to put etiquette on one side, and pay you a private visit himself this very afternoon.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris —Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death.
— 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.

"Only I rather you had such a sort of husband as James is, with a place very near, that I could drive to.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

worthless, valueless, priceless; unsalable; not worth a straw &c. (trifling) 643 dear at any price. vain, empty, inane; gainless[obs3], profitless, fruitless; unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive &c. 169; hors de combat[Fr]; effete, past work &c. (impaired) 659; obsolete &c. (old) 124; fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

muttered Jo, slamming the stove door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For which reason virtue should not be cultivated as the Lacedaemonians did; for they did not differ from others in their opinion concerning the supreme good, but in [1334b] imagining this good was to be procured by a particular virtue; but since there are greater goods than those of war, it is evident that the enjoyment of those which are valuable in themselves should be desired, rather than those virtues which are useful in war; but how and by what means this is to be acquired is now to be considered.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

“You don’t mean that?” said Asher in a pitiful voice.
— from Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn

But just as the nature of the climate in which they dwell modifies their conception of enjoyment, so also a host of other circumstances, some minute and scarcely traceable in their influence, others broad and plainly visible, mould the ideas and ideals of men and nations.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

But, these holes being made for another purpose, viz., to communicate flame more suddenly to the wick by a little flax hanging down thro' them, the other use, of letting in air, seems not to have been thought of; and therefore, after the lamps have been lit a few hours, the streets of London are very poorly illuminated.
— from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

308 They have answered their purpose, and, in any practical view, become useless.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

"A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, of a forty-five years old."— Gardiner's Music of Nature , p. 338.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

“Or a prejudiced view of his son's conduct.
— from The Adventures of M. D'Haricot by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

A large and populous village stood where the red deer roved on his trackless path.
— from Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony by Beavan, F. (Frederick), Mrs.

Every wise parent, wishing to allure his children to any particular virtue, is careful to set them the fairest examples of the same, as knowing that example is more powerful than precept.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

—We rose an hour before daylight, and journeyed eight hours, passing through a country resembling that of yesterday, and a pleasant valley called Wady Jeenanee, until we arrived at the wells of the same name.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

It was, however, mainly an ornamental rank, being bestowed sometimes by favor of the general in command, sometimes by a popular vote.
— from Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church