His horrible, unparalleled and repulsive ugliness put him without the pale of humanity; and it often seemed to me that, for this reason, he no longer believed that he had any duty toward the human race.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Discuss investment techniques with others, read reports about economical trends, and retrieve useful programs for your personal computer.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The Colonel found himself in a rather uncomfortable place—no $1,200 salary forthcoming; and himself held responsible for half of the $9,640 due the workmen, to say nothing of being in debt to the company to the extent of nearly $4,000.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
— 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.

It is the absolutistic brand, spurning the dust and reared upon pure logic.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

There are adequate grounds for asserting that the premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

You cry out, he would say, we are a ruined, undone people.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

nor shall the advice I bring Distaste the people, or offend the king: "Cursed is the man, and void of law and right, Unworthy property, unworthy light, Unfit for public rule, or private care, That wretch, that monster, who delights in war; Whose lust is murder, and whose horrid joy, To tear his country, and his kind destroy!
— from The Iliad by Homer

28 The Singing Bone In a certain country there was once great lamentation over a wild boar that laid waste the farmer's fields, killed the cattle, and ripped up people's bodies with his tusks.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

To give the requisite elevation, the columns and antae are raised upon pedestals; these, as well as the basement story and podium of the inner wall of the portico, are of Aberdeen granite; the columns and the rest of the front are formed of large blocks of Portland stone.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

There is also a seat up above the coupé , in a sort of second story, as it were; and this was the seat which Mr. George and Rollo usually preferred, because it was up high, where they could see better.
— from Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott

A ladder leaned against the wall and ran up past the window.
— from In the Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott

In a few hours after, the body of the widow O'Clery was deposited in a rough, unplaned pine coffin, and placed on board a two-horse, open sleigh.
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley

It had never been like that in the old days; a ragged unkempt place of uncertain manners and a very evident poverty.
— from The Wooden Horse by Hugh Walpole

With the wild animal ( alzado ) is contrasted the de rodeo animal: that is to say, the cattle which are rounded up periodically in the centre of the ranch to be taken to the pasture where they must live ( aquerenciar ).
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

But in this memorandum in that paragraph you say, "He would have to have known the not too obvious fact that Helsinki is an unusual and relatively uncomplicated point of entry to the Soviet Union (one that the Soviets might well choose, for example, if arranging the passage themselves)."
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

He had grown almost two inches, his chest was fuller, his voice manly, and his handsome face not spoiled (Margery declared it improved) by a scar across the cheek, won in a raid upon Poole.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Climbing around the rock, however, I noticed that a large, flat stone lay in a rather unexpected position on a narrow cleft.
— from Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees

To the ineffable disgust of the conservatives in Church and State, there were men with little education, utterly devoid of Hebrew, of lowly station—hatters, curriers, tanners, dyers, and the like, who began to preach also; remembering, unseasonably perhaps, that the early disciples, selected by the founder of Christianity, had not all been doctors of theology, with diplomas from a "renowned university."
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley