" There had been no clashing of temper between Dorothea and her husband since that little explosion in Rome, which had left such strong traces in her mind that it had been easier ever since to quell emotion than to incur the consequence of venting it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

English life seems to him to suffer from a lack of edifying rhetoric (which he calls moral tone); English behavior to show a want of respect for womanhood; English pronunciation to fail very vulgarly in tackling such words as world, girl, bird, etc.; English society to be plain spoken to an extent which stretches occasionally to intolerable coarseness; and English intercourse to need enlivening by games and stories and other pastimes; so he does not feel called upon to acquire these defects after taking great paths to cultivate himself in a first rate manner before venturing across the Atlantic.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

I have broken every engagement since that afternoon I was to address the drunkards at Casterbridge Fair.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

This it is which makes them inclined to be extravagant , especially since they possess little reasoning power.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made a much better gentleman of Georgy than any plans of his grandfather could make him.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Great, good company at dinner, among others Sir Martin Noell, who told us the dispute between him, as farmer of the Additional Duty, and the East India Company, whether callicos be linnen or no; which he says it is, having been ever esteemed so: they say it is made of cotton woole, and grows upon trees, not like flax or hempe.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I told the men nearest to me that we had been engaged ever since the arrival of the troops in building a road over which to supply them with everything they needed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Its application, however, to the present case would be entirely erroneous, since this would involve the ignoring of the special psychical dispositions, which, although they do not directly enter into consciousness at all, must yet be regarded, along with the conscious data, as pre-determining conditions, and these are very different in the case of different persons.
— from The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Franz Brentano

We may tak als ane other simylytude, Grosly the sammyn purpos to conclud; Flame, lycht, and hait, bene in a fyre we se. 5 Quhar euer the low is, lycht and heit bene thar; And had the fyre bene byrnand euermar, Evyr suld the flambe engendrit haue hys lyght, And of the byrnand low the flambys brycht Perpetualy suld heit haue sprung alquhar.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

It was a fearsome thing to see the pale sheen of a great roller looming up over the stern, and the boys would hold their breaths, expecting every second to have some watery mountains come crashing down on their little craft and carry it to the bottom.
— from The Radio Boys Under the Sea; or, The Hunt for Sunken Treasure by J. W. Duffield

Duane’s attacks were in themselves not formidable; his long articles of financial and political criticism were impressive only to the very ignorant; his colossal and audacious untruthfulness was evident to any intelligent reader, and had been evident ever since the Aurora had begun its existence; but nevertheless their effect was serious from the fact that they operated in a way perhaps not intended or fully understood by Duane himself.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

I half expected to see him rise from the floor with some tiny something in his hand, some object overlooked by everyone else, some tangible evidence which would lead to the immediate apprehension of the perpetrator of the crime.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

We, however, made it so warm for them that they are concluded to have withdrawn, but everywhere else, since the 25th, they have been fairly quiet. 29th, Sunday.
— from Mafeking: A Diary of a Siege by Frederick David Baillie

Henry Jennings, conductor, injured October 1, at 5:55 p.m., north of Rathburn; was walking by engine, engineman started the injector and threw hot water on Jennings.
— from Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention by R. C. (Ralph Coffin) Richards