If the Cæsar had dissembled in silence so dangerous an insult, his person and authority would have been exposed to the contempt of the world; and if an action so criminal had been suffered to pass with impunity, the emperor would have confirmed the suspicions, which received a very specious color from his past conduct towards the princes of the Flavian family.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back &c. (restrain) 751; render averse &c. 603; repel; turn aside &c. (deviation) 279; wean from; act as a drag &c. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate &c. 766. disenchant, disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) 527a.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And by-and-bye, he lost all sense of resentment in wonder how it was, or could be, that two men like himself and Higgins, living by the same trade, working in their different ways at the same object, could look upon each other's position and duties in so strangely different a way.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet —Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines!
— 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.

Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

A. Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

No man would ever try to make a fantail till he saw a pigeon with a tail developed in some slight degree in an unusual manner, or a pouter till he saw a pigeon with a crop of somewhat unusual size; and the more abnormal or unusual any character was when it first appeared, the more likely it would be to catch his attention.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Wi' quaffing an' laughing, They ranted an' they sang, Wi' jumping an' thumping, The vera girdle rang, First, neist the fire, in auld red rags, Ane sat, weel brac'd wi' mealy bags, And knapsack a' in order; His doxy lay within his arm; Wi' usquebae an' blankets warm She blinkit on her sodger; An' aye he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpin' kiss, While she held up her greedy gab, Just like an aumous dish; Ilk smack still, did crack still, Just like a cadger's whip; Then staggering an' swaggering
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

When her toilet was made she directed Sally to bring her a cup of strong coffee; and when she had drunk it she sat down to wait with what patience she could for the awakening of old Katie.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

DEUX II seconde, seconde, deusiésme: second, seconde, double, doubled, double, doublé, doublée, doublenesse, dualité, duplicité, doublement, secondary, parted in two.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

I have a good deal of will, you remember, and what I have set my mind upon, no doubt, I shall some day achieve.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

She could not do it, she sobbed drily—but she raced to him and knelt and searched with swift fingers before the words were past her lips.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

"I guess I can do it," she said dubiously.
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

10 Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear; Till death unfelt that tender frame destroy, In some soft dream, or ecstasy of joy, Peaceful sleep out the Sabbath of the tomb, And wake to raptures in a life to come.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

"So do I, sir, so do I—curst stuff!
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

"I didn't do it," she said doggedly.
— from Truthful Jane by Florence Morse Kingsley