Familiarity, common repute, and congeniality to desire are readily made measuring rods of truth.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

My friend, having presented me, mentioned my desire to inspect the establishment, and received Monsieur Maillard’s assurance that he would show me all attention, now took leave, and I saw him no more.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

so to add what wants In female sex, the more to draw his love, And render me more equal; and perhaps, A thing not undesirable, sometime Superiour; for, inferiour, who is free This may be well: But what if God have seen, And death ensue?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Occasionally, at a stoppage, the guard would look into the compartment and say to the boy, "All right, my man.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

" Thou most me first transmuwen in a stoon, And reve me my passiounes alle, Er thou so lightly do my wo to falle.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

‘We all came back again,’ replied Mrs. Micawber.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Ye have plundered my mails—torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal!—Another in my place would have been at his 'excommunicabo vos'; but I am placible, and if ye order forth my palfreys, release my brethren, and restore my mails, tell down with all speed an hundred crowns to be expended in masses at the high altar of Jorvaulx Abbey, and make your vow to eat no venison until next Pentecost, it may be you shall hear little more of this mad frolic.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"No, you are right, Miss Middleton, inventing beforehand never prospers; 't is a way to trip our own cleverness.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

It had been quite a large party, and really much more splendid and brilliant than anything she had ever seen before.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“All right, Master Mark,” said the boy, with a good-humoured laugh.
— from The Black Tor: A Tale of the Reign of James the First by George Manville Fenn

Yarra had been ordered by Mrs. Macdougal to consider himself Mr. Ryder's servant during the latter's stay at Boobyalla, and as there was always a danger of a man of the Honourable Walter's inexperience being bushed if he rode alone, Yarra followed him on many of his long rides into the ranges, and helped him to explore the gorges and secret recesses of the heavily-timbered hills; but as a rule Mrs. Macdougal accompanied the Englishman, and then Yarra's services were not required.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

Self-sacrifice becomes more rare as wealth and refinement modify men and women.
— from The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers by Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell

“And if agreeable women,” cried I, “are rare, much more so, I think, are agreeable men; at least, among my acquaintance they are very few, indeed, that are highly agreeable.”
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

"It'll be all right, Miss Mabel," said he at last.
— from Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin

But in political society, a rich man may rob me in another way.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The afternoon tea is English again, with its troops of eager females and stray, reluctant males; though I believe there are rather more men at the English teas, owing to the larger leisure class in England.
— from Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance by William Dean Howells