It bore no scar or trace of hurt!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

She had felt for Anna with all her heart while she was speaking to her, but now she could not force herself to think of her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Although the belief that an organ so perfect as the eye could have been formed by natural selection, is more than enough to stagger any one; yet in the case of any organ, if we know of a long series of gradations in complexity, each good for its possessor, then, under changing conditions of life, there is no logical impossibility in the acquirement of any conceivable degree of perfection through natural selection.
— 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

“You and your list may be d—n'd,” said the captain, throwing it at him; “I say, there shall be no sick in this ship while I have the command of her.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She look'd: but all Suffused with blushes ­ neither self-possess'd Nor startled, but betwixt this mood and that, Divided in a graceful quiet ­ paused, And dropt the branch she held, and turning, wound Her looser hair in braid, and stirr'd her lips For some sweet answer, tho' no answer came, Nor yet refused the rose, but granted it, And moved away, and left me, statue-like, In act to render thanks.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Meanwhile Minister Adams, deeply perturbed and profoundly anxious, would betray no sign of alarm, and purposely delayed to ask explanation.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Snails with shells on their backs, being first washed from the dirt, then the shells broken, and they boiled in spring water, but not scummed at all, for the scum will sink of itself, and the water drank for ordinary drink is a most admirable remedy for consumption; being bruised and applied to the place they help the gout, draw thorns out of the flesh, and held to the nose help the bleeding thereof.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

2 [A; b6] note s.o. down as s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Away, away, emerging upon the broad plateau, and yelling, yelping, whooping, cursing, but never slackening speed.
— from K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. by James Melville Beard

The statistics of infantile mortality suggest that the children of the poorer schools have also gone through a more severe selection; disease weeding out by natural selection, and the less fit having succumbed before school age, the residue are of sturdier type than in schools or classes where such selection has been less intense.'
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

His face betrayed no sign that he heard what had just been said, and I thought it fortunate for the "red hot Socialist."
— from Crimes of Charity by Konrad Bercovici

Floyd had experienced many sensations in life, but none so vividly pleasant as now at the sight of this thing fresh from the lagoon, and in its strange home.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Four 89 pages a day, whether it is a novel or a play, is my method,” and pointing out to me a long row of books not so tastefully bound as the others:
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

There had been no storm since the blizzard in which David and Andy were lost, and the half-breed was quick to discover no track of snowshoes.
— from Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

Surrounded by living beauty, I was insensible to its influence; for, with all the perfection that reality can attain on earth, there was ever to be found some deficiency, either physical or moral, that defaced the symmetry and destroyed the loveliness of the whole; but, no sooner didst thou, with magic wand, conjure up one of thy embodiments, than my heart became a sea of flame, and was consumed in the vastness of its own fires.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

There had been, nay, still were, whispers about her in her world.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter