What fuller satisfaction could it find than the consciousness that he is the master of the General who has undervalued him and of the rival who has been preferred to him; that these worthy people, who are so successful and popular and stupid, are mere puppets in his hands, but living puppets, who at the motion of his finger must contort themselves in agony, while all the time they believe that he is their one true friend and comforter?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

‘I have no right to make any further inquiry into the private affairs of a friend, however intimate a friend,’ said Mr. Pickwick, after a short silence; ‘at present let me merely say, that I do not understand this at all.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest; For I have given here my soul's consent T'undeck the pompous body of a king; Made glory base, and sovereignty a slave, Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This is a spontaneous , synthetical act, precisely the same in kind with that which gives a simple a priori principle, as idea.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

30 Sed ea non pariter omnes egemus; nam ad cuiusque vitam institutam accommodandum est, a multisne opus sit an satis sit a paucis diligi.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then he knocked louder, and she started and put it away.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

After sometime spent at Pryor's house, General Kearney ordered me to call on Fremont to notify him of his arrival, and that he desired to see him.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

These terms, which denoted the fountain of the prophetic God, the Greeks contracted to Νυμφη , a Nymph; and supposed such a person to be an inferior Goddess, who presided over waters.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

There was every kind of news in the paper: accidents, shipwrecks, sports and politics.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

"We'll haul her in to a safe spot," answered Parsons.
— from The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; Or, The Secret of the Island Cave by Edward Stratemeyer

About same size as P. frondosus and larger.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

And while approaching him he began to speak gently to him, then coming to a stand stooped and patting his legs called the dog to him.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Each town lies nestling in a deep narrow notch of the lofty coast-line, with its quaint shanties spilling themselves pell-mell down the precipitous escarpments in all shapes, sizes, and positions, like rubble shot out of a cart.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

I myself am somewhat sanguine, and prone rather to expect good than evil, and with a vast stock of faith in the excellent things that may turn up in the future.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe