There could not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

She was still the desire of his eyes; but the sweet spring of fatherly love was now mingled with bitterness, like everything else.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Just you behave like everybody else.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure &c. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin[Law], seisin[Law].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

—To act occasionally in matters of custom against our own better judgments; to yield in practice while reserving our own intellectual liberty; to behave like everybody else and thus to show ourselves amiable and considerate to all, to compensate them, as it were, even if only to some extent, for our unconventional opinions—all this among many tolerably liberal-minded men is looked upon not only as permissible but even as “honourable,” “humane,” “tolerant,” and “unpedantic,” or whatever fine words may be used to lull to sleep the intellectual conscience.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Yet virtue has its bounds like everything else, and she is rather to be blamed for her severity than for indulgence; even her father himself is sometimes afraid lest her lofty pride should degenerate into a haughty spirit.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But in the first place, there never existed a society, however corrupt some may have become, where no difference was made between the good and the bad; and with regard to morality, where no measures can be prescribed by law exact enough to serve as a practical rule for a magistrate, it is with great prudence that, in order not to leave the fortune or quality of the citizens to his discretion, it prohibits him from passing judgment on persons and confines his judgment to actions.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

and Gabrielle d’Estrees--as good-natured, as brave, as proud, and above all, as Gascon as his ancestor, but less elaborately educated.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

But, like everything extraordinary and exceptional, this waiving of the general taboo on strangers must be justified and bridged over by magic.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

—Theodore Bailey, Lucas Elmendorph, E. Livingston, Samuel L. Mitchill, Thomas Morris, John Smith, David Thomas, Philip Van Cortlandt, John P. Van Ness, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Benjamin Walker.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

My new tenor, Bertini, who likewise made his début on this occasion, produced but little effect, either vocally or dramatically.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II by James Henry Mapleson

It seems as if at present the development, the contagion, so to speak, of scientific methods applied to art were making people forget a little that art, besides being, like everything else, the passive object of scientific treatment, is (what most other things are not) an active, positive, special factor of pleasure; and that, therefore, save to special students, the greater, more efficacious form of art should occupy an immensely larger share of attention than the lesser and more inefficient.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

[Pg 47] How—why—or when—that bloody battle ceased to be, was never distinctly known either then or since; but, like everything else, it had an end—and even now we have a confused dream of the spot at its termination—naked men lying on their backs in the mire, all drenched in blood—with women,
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

The above picture, an undoubted original --and by a master (the supposed pupil of John Van Eyk) who introduced the art of oil-painting into Italy--was sold for only 162 francs: whereas the copy of it, in oil, by Laurent, executed expressly for the accompanying plate (and executed with great skill and fidelity) cost 400 francs!]
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Love is a great passion, but, like everything else but fate, it is capable of subjection by a resolute will.
— from The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) by David Christie Murray

A prie-dieu chair, old and battered like everything else in the convent, was beside her, and above it her child's portrait.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.