A fortnight was a very short time to make arrangements for so serious a removal; as Dixon said, 'Any one but a gentleman—indeed almost any other gentleman—' but catching a look at Margaret's straight, stern brow just here, she coughed the remainder of the sentence away, and meekly took the horehound drop that Margaret offered her, to stop the 'little tickling at my chest, miss.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And had he been a Christian, yet since he was, to be sure, till the latter part of his life, no more than an Ebionite Christian, who, above all the apostles, rejected and despised St. Paul, it would be no great wonder if he did not now follow his interpretation.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[89] It is not to be supposed that so many English seamen misbehaved through so vulgar and rare a defect as mere cowardice; it was unpreparedness of mind and lack of military efficiency in the captains, combined with bad leadership on the part of the admiral, with a possible taint of ill will toward him as a rude and domineering superior, that caused this fiasco.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman!
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

For as perfume gives pleasure to the nose, and is a remedy against disagreeable smells, so the remembrance of past happiness in present trouble gives all the relief they require to those who do not shut out of their memory the blessings of the past, or always and everywhere rail against Fortune.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

In an excellent parable, Proclus, the Neoplatonist, points out how in every town the mob dwells side by side with those who are rich and distinguished: so, too, in every man, be he never so noble and dignified, there is, in the depth of his nature, a mob of low and vulgar desires which constitute him an animal.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

For twenty-nine years this worthy woman kept an establishment at Rome, and did so in a manner which proved her worthy of her good fortune.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They are romantic and dissolute, sentimental and insolent; they can work and go on the loose and laugh at nothing and talk rubbish; they are hot-headed, honest, heroic and as human beings not a bit worse than Vassiliev, who watches his every step and word, who is careful, cautious, and able to give the smallest trifle the dignity of a problem.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

How eagerly he watched to see her turn, and render "assurance doubly sure" by revealing her lovely countenance!
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

He stood and looked at the Indian for a few moments, then, facing from the booth, walked away with a rapid and disturbed step which gradually became slower and halted.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

The march and failure of Gardanne have been already related, and Drouet saw that to carry out the Emperor’s orders he must use a larger force.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Kenneth was swinging to and fro, the bough dipping and rising and dipping, so low that the water almost touched his feet.
— from Three Boys; Or, The Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn

The buyers were pleased with their purchase, and received a decided satisfaction in its possession.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

Other naturalists and experimenters about the same time were attempting to compare the quantity of heat produced under certain circumstances with the quantity of work expended in producing it; and results and deductions (some of them very remarkable) were given by Séguin (1839), Mayer (1842), Colding (1843), founded partly on experiment, and partly on a kind of metaphysical reasoning.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various

This is certainly as strong a reason as Dr. Sangrado, of Quixotic notoriety, gave to his patient, when asked why he did not prescribe cold water; "I have," said the Doctor, "already prescribed hot water."
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

It matters not under what climate, or for what purpose they are kept, whether as food for man or beast, for draught or hunting, for clothing or mere pleasure,—under all these circumstances races have been produced which differ more from one another than do the forms which in a state of nature are ranked as different species.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin