o' thinking—did yo' begin by calling 'em fools and such like, or didn't yo' rayther give 'em some kind words at first, to make 'em ready for to listen and be convinced, if they could; and in yo'r preaching, did yo' stop every now and then, and say, half to them and half to yo'rsel', "But yo're such a pack o' fools, that I've a strong notion it's no use my trying to put sense into yo'?"
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The eyes of the two worthies met, with an expression as if each rascal felt that there was no disguising himself from the other; and Sir Mulberry Hawk shrugged his shoulders and walked slowly out.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

It is not merely distinguished from its material envelope as the inside from the outside; it is not merely represented as made out of a more subtle and fluid matter; but more than this, it inspires those sentiments which are everywhere reserved for that which is divine.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

But remembering how you, aunt, had all along in years gone by, even to this day, to spend large bundles of silver, in purchasing such articles, and how, not to speak of this year with an imperial consort in the Palace, what's even required for this dragon boat festival, will also necessitate the addition of hundred times as much as the quantity of previous years, I therefore present them to you, aunt, as a token of my esteem!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

During travels in numerous lands, I have listened to early recollections from the lips of veracious men and women.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.
— from The Iliad by Homer

A province might suffer by the decay of its manufactures, but in this example of silk, Procopius has partially overlooked the inestimable and lasting benefit which the empire received from the curiosity of Justinian.
— 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

The European Race. —For thousands of years the white race was confined to the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Everyone rose, feeling that dinner was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the rest, went in to dinner.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This propitiation of such divinities,—a propitiation so wanton, so impure, so immodest, so wicked, so filthy, whose actors the innate and praiseworthy virtue of the Romans disabled from civic honours, erased from their tribe, recognised as polluted and made infamous;—this propitiation, I say, so foul, so detestable, and alien from every religious feeling, these fabulous and ensnaring accounts of the criminal actions of the gods, these scandalous actions which they either shamefully and wickedly committed, or more shamefully and wickedly feigned, all this the whole city learned in public both by the words and gestures of the actors.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

As far as I could judge, I suffered no evil results from the excitement through which I had passed.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

They are easily reared from the nest, and sing nearly as well in confinement as while free.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

All that, there is no intention to dispute at all; and, of course, that all the men who shipped for that purpose were equally responsible for the consequences, we admit.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

"Why do the 'eathen rage furious to gether and im agine a vain thing?"
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

They are bringing her up in an invalid carriage the first mild day, so I must have everything ready for them.
— from My New Home by Mrs. Molesworth

In this enterprise he found himself dependent for support on what was called the popular party, and sought his allies in its leaders for the time being all the more, that the victorious general by no means possessed the gifts and experiences requisite for the command of the streets.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

At first glance it seems most natural to suppose that Rome would want exact returns from the census, and might for that reason try to dictate the men who were to take it, for on the census had been based always the military taxes, contingents, etc.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

They rode due north, skirting the foot of the hills, till they reached the emigrant route, for the railway had not been carried farther than Wabash, from which point it ran south to Denver.
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

So that," continued Mr. Morris, as Miss Earle rose from the table, "that is your first experience of a chutney fight—one of the delights of ocean travel."
— from In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories by Robert Barr

It’s as if you’re sending material simply by tapping away on the keyboard without any elaborate rules for the other person’s machine.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman