All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discoloured through our passions shown.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Don’t dole them out poetry-books and railway-tickets like babies.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Is it true what they say, that sympathy choked him; —That he saw how MAN hung on the cross, and could not endure it;—that his love to man became his hell, and at last his death?”— The old pope however did not answer, but looked aside timidly, with a painful and gloomy expression.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Then,” said Danglars, pale with anger, which was not at all due to offended paternal love,—“then, mademoiselle, you persist in your determination to accelerate my ruin?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

They were not quite certain, but had at times a strong suspicion that things did not happen to them as they did to other people.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[A; b(1)] give a date, term or period.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Duclos, the only person superior to jealousy, seemed to become more attached to me: he introduced me to Mademoiselle Quinault, in whose house I received polite attention, and civility to as great an extreme, as I had found a want of it in that of M. d’Holbach.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits.
— 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.

In Europe, however, they have gone through a schooling of eighteen centuries such as no other nation has ever undergone, and the experiences of this dreadful time of probation have benefited not only the Jewish community but, even to a greater extent, the individual.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What are the different types of progress analyzed by Bryce?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Harry had closed the door and followed the others down the outer passage.
— from The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard

Ensuite vient la médiane, dont on suit le parcours, ainsi que sa ramification qui forme la première inférieure et qui passe sous la plus grande des deux taches orbiculaires; puis la deuxième (celle qui, contre toutes les lois de la Spiloptérologie, couperait la deuxième tache orbiculaire, si on l’attribuait
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

As yet, [315] however, their views are but vague and indefinite, and lie rather in the direction of ambitious dreams than of purpose-giving aspirations.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

Some six years before, the society had been betrayed by one of its members; Count Walewski, with several of his compatriots, was arrested and sent without trial into exile; and as a deterrent to other Poles who might contemplate revolt, the place selected for his punishment was the bleak barren island of Sakhalin, the farthest eastern limit of the Russian empire.
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

[Pg 71] firmed to the said company; but that in case the situation of those farms and lands should be considered by the United States to be of public and political importance, and the United States government should signify a desire to obtain possession of the whole, or of any part thereof, the property so required should be transferred to the said government at a proper valuation, to be agreed upon between the parties.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

"I'm no denser than other people; and I know just as well as every one else the wretched mess you've got yourself into—one would have to be blind and deaf, indeed, not to know.—Now, look here, Maurice!
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

she cried, crossing herself, “the red rooster gave me a dreadful top of page here: moved illo to previous par break turn.
— from The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

So Roughsedge had his say; a quiet engagement began its course in the world; Brookshire as yet knew nothing; and the doctor triumphed over Patricia.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"The vocative takes no article; it is distinguished thus: O Pedro ,
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown