And I lean the more to this opinion from finding that even the historian of those exploits, with all his partiality for his hero, is fain to admit that the slaughtered monsters in question were of a very innocent and simple turn; extremely guileless and ready of belief; lending a credulous ear to the most improbable tales; suffering themselves to be easily entrapped into pits; and even (as in the case of the Welsh Giant) with an excess of the hospitable politeness of a landlord, ripping themselves open, rather than hint at the possibility of their guests being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight-of-hand and hocus-pocus.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

[‘ earth-din ’] eorðe f. ground, soil , Æ, B, LkL ; AO, CP: ‘ earth ,’ mould , Gu : world, Æ, B, Mt : country, land, district , Jn .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Can my soul, inextricably linked to this perishable frame, become lethargic and cold, even as this sensitive mechanism shall lose its youthful elasticity?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!” cried Elizabeth.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

‘Where did you get drink?’ inquired the German, very savage; but motionless in the light of the binnacle, like a clumsy effigy of a man cut out of a block of fat.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

"Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!" cried Elizabeth.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

but like a corpse endowed with the mere machinery of life, and borne on one slow melancholy wind that never rose or fell.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Teleology had become a bugbear to the vast majority of biologists, and all real understanding of the Cuvierian attitude seems, in most cases, to have been lost, although, curiously enough, teleological conceptions were often unconsciously introduced in the course of discussions on the "utility" of organs in the struggle for existence.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

But she had not much time for thought before Maude's arms were around her neck and Maude was standing on tiptoe and drawing down her face, which she covered with kisses; and, between laughing and crying, exclaimed: "You darling old Jerrie!
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

A mother in China is given, both by law and custom, extreme power over her sons whatever their age or rank.
— from An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

In spite of constantly changing THE HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN {13} frontiers and dynastic vicissitudes, the great unity of mediævalism blends the Rhineland, Flanders, Brabant, Luxembourg, Artois, Champagne, Eastern Normandy, Eastern France, into a consistent whole, so far as all real things are concerned.
— from Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams Cram

"by the advys of his Highness' counsel," saw fit to order its abolition, which he did in the following terms: "Whereas heretofore dyuers and many superstitions and chyldysh obseruances haue been used, and yet to this day are obserued and kept, in many and sundry partes of this realm, as vpon St. Nicholas, Saint Catherine, Saint Clement, the holie Innocents, and such-like holie daies, children be strangelie decked and apparayled to counterfeit Priests, Bishopes, and Women, and so be ledde with Songes and dances from house to house, blessing the people and gathering of money; and boyes do singe masse and preache in the pulpitt, with other such onfittinge and inconuenient vsages which tend rather to derysyon than enie true glorie of God, or honour of his Sayntes: the Kynges maiestie, therefore, myndynge nothinge so muche as to aduance the true glory of God without vain superstition, wylleth and commandeth that from henceforth all such superstitious obseruations be left and clerely extinguished
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

To talk about such barbaric lands, and call existence there life!
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

The meal was not lively; it lacked Ivy’s good-humour, Mus’ Beatup’s talkativeness, Bill Putland’s wit, Mr. Sumption’s big laugh and childish enjoyment of his food.
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith