They went about recruiting; and where could they enlist recruits more hopefully, than among the fine gentlemen who, having found out everything to be worth nothing, were equally ready for anything?
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

There you are to the life: a deep subtle sort of thinker with his fore-finger on the page, while Saint Bonaventure or somebody else, rather fat and florid, is looking up at the Trinity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The only restriction imposed on them is, that they shall not exchange republican for antirepublican Constitutions; a restriction which, it is presumed, will hardly be considered as a grievance.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

2 Herod sailed from Judea; and when he met with him, he had none with him but Antipater, whom he delivered to Agrippa, that he might take him along with him, together with many presents, that so he might become Cæsar's friend, insomuch that things already looked as if he had all his father's favor, and that the young men were already entirely rejected from any hopes of the kingdom.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[explaining] We should expect ransom for a friend.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

The realm of the natural concept under the one legislation and that of the concept of freedom under the other are entirely removed from all mutual influence which they might have on one another (each according to its fundamental laws) by the great gulf that separates the supersensible from phenomena.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In England rank, fashion, and culture rejoiced in him.
— from My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells

He had been rich before his marriage with his own wealth,—so rich that he could throw thousands away if he wished it; but for him and his career was needed that colossal wealth which would make men talk about it,—which would necessitate an expansive expenditure, reaching far and wide, doing nothing, or less than nothing, for his own personal comfort, but giving to him at once that rock-like solidity which is so necessary to our great aristocratic politicians.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

Even Rose felt an aching pity for her strong man, something quite different from the easy gushes of condolence which had used to be all she could muster in the way of sympathy.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

The Governing Committee of the Exchange made Albert King treasurer of the Exchange Relief Fund, and, although many leading members were absent from the floor, as is usual on Monday at this season of the year, the handsome sum of $14,520 was contributed by the brokers present at the close of business.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The Senator's cold eyes rested for a moment on the young man's open face with a peculiar expression of distrust.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

Each rushed for a pony, leaped into the saddle, and, before Lone Wolf and his band had shaken off their slumber, we were urging our mustangs to their utmost speed southward.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier

"I have no liking for arrests," and the glint of her eye rested for a moment on Frederick.
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

Frozen with horror, and held motionless in their places, the two others dared not move to his assistance, and they even refrained from announcing the accident to those who were working to relieve them.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

The awful silence was broken in the most striking manner; the cayman was frightened, and sank abruptly to the bottom of the lake; hundreds of echoes resounded from all sides, like the discharges of a rifle corps, and these were repeated to the tops of the mountains, while clouds of cormorants, starting from all the trees around, uttered their screaming and piercing cries, in which they were joined by the Indians, who shouted with joy on seeing from the bank [ 192 ] the flight of the hostile beast, of which they are always so much afraid.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

His eyes rested for a moment on Trenchard, then he turned to his horses.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole