And she presented her other cheek.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The huge, mouse-coloured Brahmini bull of the ward was shouldering his way through the many-coloured crowd, a stolen plantain hanging out of his mouth.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

He then assaulted the places and speedily possessed himself of two of the out posts; but finding he could not make himself master of the place, he prudently retreated with very little loss, blaming, however captain Jahier, for the failure of the enterprise.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"He won't move on," says the constable calmly, with a slight professional hitch of his neck involving its better settlement in his stiff stock, "although he has been repeatedly cautioned, and therefore I am obliged to take him into custody.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Managers” continued to administer affairs all the way through; and such persons held office down to the termination of Dr. Vaughan’s ministry.
— from Congregationalism in the Court Suburb by John Stoughton

The distance between the post-houses varied considerably, being sometimes only nine miles apart, sometimes as many as twenty, but they were generally performed at a gallop, the priest, at Julian's suggestion, always giving somewhat more than the usual drink-money to the driver, and in five days from the time of their leaving Borizow they arrived at St. Petersburg, halting only for a few hours each night at post-houses.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

They mean nothing; and they make the foolish girls fancy I know something more than they do, and so I get a silver penny here, or a handful of eggs there, and we make shift to live.”
— from One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Emily Sarah Holt

In the wave of patriotic wrath and fervor that swept the land when the Maine was done to death in Havana Harbor, many and many a youth who has sneered at the State Guardsmen learned to wish that he too had given time and honest effort to the school of the soldier, for now, unless he had sufficient "pull" to win for him a staff position, his only hope was in the ranks.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

See also Seignobos’ Political History of Contemporary Europe .
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But this does not hold good where the King is the lord of the common pasture, and several persons holding of him in socage have common, because in that case anyone having common may avow a good distress.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

She knew that, whatever happened, Dick must not get bronchitis, and she put her own fear bravely on one side to think of him.
— from Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children by G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow

The only trouble was, that she was such an idiot she did not see it; and she prided herself on her powers of reasoning, too!
— from Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

Instigated by his mother, he, by an abject stratagem, passed himself off as Esau.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh