The story of their royal blood was calculated to add dignity to their characters, while their humble birth in the midst of poverty, and unmarked by ostentation, would evince their humility, meekness, condescension, and absence of pride, and thus proclaim a lesson of humility and resignation to their disciples and followers.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He had often been depressed before, and there was nothing surprising at his feeling so at such a moment, when he had broken off with everything that had brought him here, and was preparing that day to make a new start and enter upon a new, unknown future.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He knew well his own powers and his own skill, and he doubted not that he should obtain the victory; but he also knew that Alured de Ashby was not one to be overthrown with ease, that he was not one whom he should be able to wound, disarm, or save.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Her eyes had so peculiar a power that one was forced to look into them; they were so strangely clear—clear as glass, so deep, so fathomless— "Have you a beloved one?" asked Rudy; for to have a beloved one was everything to him.
— from The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

she broke off, while exclaiming to herself, even as her reflections shaped themselves thus, 'never--never will I believe it.
— from The Seafarers by John Bloundelle-Burton

In the top of this vessel are three apertures, in two of which are screwed a [Pg110] thermometer T , the bulb of which enters the hollow brass sphere, and a stop-cock C , which may be closed or opened at pleasure, to confine the steam, or allow it to escape.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

For a moment he stood, his shaggy white brows meeting in a scowl as he found himself confronted by one who even to his distorted vision possessed a charm of face and figure such as he had not seen since the days of Kitty Lambton.
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

The preacher, for whose apprehension a fresh reward had been offered, was escorted to his pulpit by a hundred mounted troopers.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

The new group of capitalists were not railroad men; their training had been on the financial side of corporation dealings, and the bulk of what experience they had had in actual management had been derived from industrial and not from railroad operations.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

And I say, that after givin' a man a fair trial and a long one, if he won't try to buy or sell a vote, it is a sure sign that he can't asimulate with Americans, and be one with 'em; that he can't never be mingled in with 'em peacible.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley