He had a great many imitators of his impassiveness; in reference to which Timon speaks thus of him in his Python, and in his Silli:— Now, you old man, you Pyrrho, how could you Find an escape from all the slavish doctrines And vain imaginations of the Sophists?
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I get down at Vernon, in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[72] "Why,” replied I, after a moment's thought, “as to the game itself, it's a very pretty game, and when you can play well, I have no doubt a very interesting one; too much so, perhaps.” “Too interesting!
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

In the earliest and embryonic stage of professional development, any violent impression on the instructor's mind is apt to be followed by some lasting effect on that of the pupil.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Since she had believed in the occult powers of his mother's divining tools, surely she would still more readily believe in the direct and visible interposition of the dead?
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

The effusion of lymph, and consequent adhesion, is, however, in many circumstances, a highly salutary process, as in wounds and injuries of the hollow viscera: effusion of their contents being thereby prevented, and the patient being saved from the danger attending violent inflammation of those cavities and their coverings, caused by the escape of a greater or less quantity of irritating extraneous matter.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

When the journey was ended, and in after days as various incidents of this eventful trip were being discussed, the boys were loth to have to believe that it was running a big risk to allow sleigh dogs to attack wolves.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

We talked very gravely of money, and doubtless displayed a vast ignorance of the subject.
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman

On the other hand, most of the men whose names are associated in your mind with courage and heroism are those who keenly appreciated the value of Conduct, and strove valiantly to keep themselves above the demoralising and vulgarising influences of the world.
— from The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' by Harold Begbie