I will not discuss the question of how you may estimate yourselves, but have you found so much good will among your superiors and rivals, so much chivalry among your enemies, so little envy in their company, that you feel yourselves in duty bound to enter a protest against the part played by the evil of egoism in human nature?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Stop your snivelling complaints, and your equally snivelling raptures! Leave off your general emotional tomfoolery, and get to WORK like men!"
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

La caña aplastada y exprimida se llama gabazo, y se usa como combustible.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

One would not have imagined, that such a sincere friendship could have taken root in such a short time; but the bit creature Benjie was as warm-hearted a callant as ye ever saw.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

“Yes, Señhor Condé, and your Excellency's secretary too.” Was it my fear suggested the notion, or was it the simple fact, but I thought that the words “Count” and “Excellency” were articulated with something like a sneer?
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

The predominant shades are pink, crimson and yellow, either separately or mixed; that is to say, some shells are pure pink, some almost pure yellow, some almost pure crimson, while others present every imaginable shade of pinkish yellow, reddish brown and brownish crimson.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

"Your lordship may converse at your ease," said Topsparkle, "that fellow has not a word of English."
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Nothing seems to be changed, and yet everything seems to be changed.
— from Abington Abbey: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

"His hair was as curly as you ever saw and turned under at the bottom.
— from Rambles with John Burroughs by R. J. H. (Robert John Henderson) De Loach

Lay aside your alternate weakness and severity, your silly coddling and your equally silly cautioning, and permit a woman to be a human being.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton