The rules of the game did not protect so much Michaelis, who was an ex-convict.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

I cannot affirm with confidence either way, whether the Theban, Tyrian, or Egyptian Heracles 614 penetrated into India or not; but I am rather inclined to think that he did not penetrate so far; for men are wont to magnify the difficulty of difficult enterprises to such a degree as to assert that they would have been impracticable even to Heracles.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The alcalde finally put it in legal form, and the declaration was made with all the formalities required in such cases, at which Don Quixote and Sancho were in high delight, as if a declaration of the sort was of any great importance to them, and as if their words and deeds did not plainly show the difference between the two Don Quixotes and the two Sanchos.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Must it not be a most manifest wrong judgment that does not presently see to which side, in this case, the preference is to be given?
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

This was the Substance of the Letter, which, however, did not produce so favourable an Answer as he hoped for, Word being brought back to him, That he should be fairly hang’d.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

We do not praise such, nor again all those who, looking at their friend simply from the point of view of decorum and utility, think that they can detect all agreeable and pleasant companions as flatterers in the very act.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He did not purposely say things to please her, but whatever he was saying he regarded from her standpoint.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Adelaide, in a few minutes recollecting herself, turned towards him, and, covered with blushes, introduced "Mr. Elton;" and, whilst the gentlemen were making their bows, retired from the room, but so lightly and swiftly made good her retreat, that till she was out of hearing, they did not perceive she had attempted it.
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

As such, and having been twenty-five years ‘en fonction,’ he is allowed occasionally to put in a word,—quite contrary to English manners, which do not permit servants to make the slightest approach to their masters, except in the way of their service.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

Other manures, such as potash, have been tried, but did not prove satisfactory.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn

We should never have supposed that mere production would suffice, if there did not perpetually slip from our minds the very elementary truth that in a world where division of labour exists wealth is not a material but a material plus a {9} process—a process of exchange.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

If this does not prove satisfactory leave them alone.
— from Food for the Traveler What to Eat and Why by Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) Roper

Miss Sophia A. Peabody, Care of Dr. N. Peabody, Salem, Mass. 36 TO MISS PEABODY
— from Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After all, it was not much to excite them so: for they were all excited, except placid Charley; a country lass, bashful, yet with a pretty vanity, smiling and walking past a group of young men who admired her, but whom, except the one whom she did not perceive, she did not know.
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

I am glad I did not promise secrecy, for I must tell Frank the first chance I get.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

Always she watched sagaciously to pull the end of the sledge strongly away should the deviation not prove sufficient.
— from The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White