Ships festooned and hung with pennants, firing of cannon, illuminations, beating of drums and blowing of trumpets, shouting and applauding—these are all the outward sign, the pretence and suggestion,—as it were the hieroglyphic,—of joy : but just there, joy is, as a rule, not to be found; it is the only guest who has declined to be present at the festival.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

His stable was all ready near the spot, And there, with halter round his neck, he died, Wiser had he his injuries forgot.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

“Let us not talk at random nor too fast,” he exclaimed.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There is abundant reason, nevertheless, to suppose that immaterial as these objections were, they would have been adhered to with a very dangerous inflexibility, in some States, had not a zeal for their opinions and supposed interests been stifled by the more powerful sentiment of self-preservation.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Bless you, Teddy, bless you!" Jo had backed into a corner, and as she finished her speech, she vanished precipitately into the kitchen, where she sat down upon a dresser and told the assembled cats that she was "happy, oh, so happy!" while Laurie departed, feeling that he had made a rather neat thing of it.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Two conclusions, [Pg 988] however, we may claim to have reached, though they are rather negative than positive.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Ciacco, well pleased, paid him and rested not till he found Biondello, to whom quoth he, 'Hast thou been late at the Cavicciuoli Gallery?' 'Nay,' answered the other.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

What he read in his authority was absolutely nothing to his audience, and remains nothing to us, unless he used what he read.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

One day they saw swimming in the water beside the ship an ugly creature, like a man, with a red nose, tangled green hair, green teeth, and fingers with webs between them, like a duck's foot.
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

He was high-strung and of a rather nervous temperament, and his owner had become afraid of him, and was glad to have me accept him.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

The [ 201 ] other, known as “Old Coosa,” and probably of more ancient origin, was on the west side of Alabama river, near the present site of Montgomery (see Gatschet, Creek Migration Legend).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This region presents great varieties of climate on account of its difference of altitude; towards the centre, and rather nearer to the Pacific than to the Atlantic, there is a huge basin at an elevation of 7500 feet above the sea, and about 200 miles in circumference, in the hollow of which there were at that time several lakes; this depression is called the valley of Mexico, taking its name from the capital of the empire.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

Art thou such an one as regards not these things, but rather busy thy thoughts about the things here below, following those things that have no scent of divine glory upon them?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

The arches which spring from the ground and rise nearly to the level of these girders are not so much intended to add to the strength of the structure as to increase its architectural effect.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

you have a right not to love me.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

He was rather frightened, and resolved not to play the next day.
— from Luck and Pluck; or, John Oakley's Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.