“No, I am too happy now to spoil my enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said to herself: “No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as I am.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

v 1 [AB; a] for a smooth surface to get roughened, cause it to do so.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The doorkeeper can see the man's come to his end, his hearing has faded, and so, so that he can be heard, he shouts to him: 'Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beasts, and not from humanity.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

All willing pathics, therefore, we consider the vilest of mankind, and credit them with neither fidelity, nor modesty, nor friendship, for as Sophocles says: 'Those who shall lose such friends may well be glad, And those who have such pray that they may lose them,' 145
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The ladies went into the bedroom to take off their shawls and bonnets, and Father Touchard, who was standing at the door, made funny and suggestive signs to the men, with many a wink and nod.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Without moving from that spot or firing a single shot the regiment here lost another third of its men.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Made some nice English friends and shall see them at Zermatt tomorrow.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

Lotte came up and felt the weals on his back with her fingers, and she said: “They don’t do that to girls.”
— from Mendel: A Story of Youth by Gilbert Cannan

"'As soon as Fiddler Abe starts singin' the girls an' boys begin comin' out of the woods like red ants out of a burnin' log, headin' hotfoot for old Bender's.
— from Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories by Alfred Henry Lewis

Sometimes in early spring he found a snake seeming to be asleep under a very hot wall which had been exposed to the mid-day sun, but which had been several hours in shadow.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

“Well, Caroline got on the train at Chicago,” Jacqueline told her story in the intense silence, “and she was scared to death about going to the farm, because of the boys and the cows, and no piano—and I didn’t want to go to Great-aunt Eunice’s poky old house—and the two boys in the book changed round—and Caroline and I were both going on eleven, and had brown hair, and nobody in Longmeadow had ever seen either of us—and I thought it would be fun——” Her voice began to falter, as she sensed the gravity of both her listeners.
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

At no time, perhaps, did Paul arrive at practising quite perfectly what he thus preached; but this only sets in a stronger light the thorough love of righteousness which made him seek out, and put so prominently forward, and so strive to make himself and others fulfil, parts of righteousness which do not force themselves on the common conscience like the duties of soberness, temperance, and activity, and which were somewhat alien, certainly, to his own particular nature.
— from St. Paul and Protestantism, with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England by Matthew Arnold

But the observation and experience of children in Italy lead me to believe that when they grow up and recall "Those recollected hours that have the charm Of visionary things, those lovely forms And sweet sensations that throw back their life, And almost make remotest infancy A visible scene, on which the sun is shining," they do not expose a treasure-house in which are stored the recollections of the most envied times of their lives.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

Priestly power over marriage, and the confessional, through which means it is able to wrest all family and state secrets to its own use, are powers that will not be peaceably relinquished.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

As for Morris, who had almost forgotten the meaning of good news, he longed to sob like a little child; he could have caught the manager (a pallid man with startled eyebrows) to his bosom; he could have found it in his generosity to give a cheque (for a small sum) to every clerk in the counting-house.
— from The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson