It has been predicted—and predictions have been corroborated by the events of the last half century—that the moral system of Feudal Japan, like its castles and its armories, will crumble into dust, and new ethics rise phoenix-like to lead New Japan in her path of progress.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

That to do bravely the daily duties of an upright life was more heroic in God's sight, than to achieve in an enthusiastic moment a single deed that won the world's applause; and that the seeming incompleteness of his life was beautifully rounded by the act that caused his death, although no eulogy recorded it, no song embalmed it, and few knew it but those he saved, those he loved, and the Great Commander who promoted him to the higher rank he had won.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

But in the final draft of the Treaty private debts are not explicitly referred to.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

A rich woman dies, and no exact, regular disposition of her property is made.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She was wonderfully well, eating, drinking, and sleeping to admiration, and never doing anything, not even reading or writing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Under these influences he broke down, and never effectually recovered himself.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

The disciples are not even reprimanded, much less chastised, when they neglect their work.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

His heart is so entirely wrapped up in it; he writes a letter to Washington every day, and nobody ever replies.
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He looks too shabby for a dun, and not exactly ragged enough for a beggar—a doubtful, lazy, dirty family vassal—a guerilla footman.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was unable wholly to suppress a smile as Slim came to a difficult and not entirely regulation salute.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service by James R. Driscoll