He was of a proud yet gentle spirit, haughty and reserved among the rich and great, but ever ready to stoop his head to the lowly cottage door and be like a brother or a son at the poor man's fireside.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We shall probably advance,” replied Bolkónski, evidently reluctant to say more in the presence of a stranger.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The bright blue eyes regarded the spectator with a kind of lurking drollery—you almost expected to see them wink; the lips—a little too voluptuously full—seemed ready to break into a smile; the warmly-tinted cheeks were embellished with a luxuriant growth of reddish whiskers; while the bright chestnut hair, clustering in abundant, wavy curls, trespassed too much upon the forehead, and seemed to intimate that the owner thereof was prouder of his beauty tha
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

So again, when we find a species disappearing before the last layers have been deposited, it would be equally rash to suppose that it then became extinct.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

If then it teaches us what is absurd and unreasonable, if it inspires us with feelings of aversion for our fellows and terror for ourselves, if it paints us a God, angry, jealous, revengeful, partial, hating men, a God of war and battles, ever ready to strike and to destroy, ever speaking of punishment and torment, boasting even of the punishment of the innocent, my heart would not be drawn towards this terrible God, I would take good care not to quit the realm of natural religion to embrace such a religion as that; for you see plainly I must choose between them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

as for the others, that will be easy,” returned the sailor, who was in high spirits.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But let this be enough regarding the style of those prophetic expressions just quoted.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

—By the Treaty of Paris in 1763, peace was made, by which France surrendered practically all her colonial possessions to England; but England returned to Spain her captures in Cuba and the Philippines.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

So again when we find a species disappearing before the uppermost layers have been deposited, it would be equally rash to suppose that it then became wholly extinct.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

This helps the unity of impression, which with both eyes realised to so intense a focus might have suffered.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Celluloid, ivorine, bone, etc., require the same general treatment as ivory and pearl.
— from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three by Maria Parloa

The inscription below the figures has almost entirely disappeared; but enough remains to show its date, and the name of the sculptor, Caldus.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

Go take a look, Postmaster.... G'-by." CHAPTER X HE HELPS WITH THE ROUGH WORK Scattergood Baines, as he sat with shirt open at the throat, his huge body sagged down in the chair that had been especially reinforced to sustain his weight, seemed to passing Coldriver village to be drowsing.
— from Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland

[104] For brief extracts relative to Sir Isaac Brock from other authors, see Appendix A, Section 1, No. 5.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

But Elaine remained to see him lower it down on the broken rocks, where the cave had formerly existed.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

In case an expedition of discovery should be fitted out for the purpose of making the attempt, by either route, the safety of the party would require that two vessels should be equipped with rather more than an ordinary number of men, and with a double number of boats at least; some so light and portable
— from Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres Demonstrating that the Earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the poles by John Cleves Symmes

Or measure the unchanged decrees of Heaven By empty rules that suit this petty world?
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

After thinking over pros and cons for a whole night, he decided that Rs. 10,000 would be enough; raised that sum at 12 per cent, by [ 101 ] mortgaging some landed property, and sent it with a flowery letter to the District Magistrate, as a humble donation to the Viceroy’s Memorial Eund.
— from Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea

The design is quite obscure, but enough remains to show that it does not differ essentially [pg 292] from the type already presented.
— from Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306 by William Henry Holmes