I could see directly I had shocked his delicate ear, and while we sat at our first tiffin together he began to find fault in a nasty manner with this and that in the ship.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

“Miss Lavish cannot have told you much about me, for I am not at Windy Corner at all, but here.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I am not to be frighted by fee, faw, fum; I am not to be scared by nonsense.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

she said, stamping her foot in a nervous quiver.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

For I am now incumbent of that rectory, presented thereto by my right honourable patron, the Lord Berkley.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

1763—Donmartin, a tinsmith of St. Benoit, France, invents a novel coffee pot, the inside of which is "filled by a fine flannel sack put in its entirety."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“In order to see it, you must look for it, and no one has looked.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Appendix L The immutability of the constitution of France is a necessary consequence of the laws of that country.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

These were exactly the People who most needed his advice and the comforts of Religion: Many representations had been made to him upon this account, and though highly repugnant to his own wishes, He had found it absolutely necessary for the service of heaven to change his determination, and quit his beloved retirement.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I wonder what she can see to like in me though, for I am no longer the happy, lively girl I used to be; but she has no other society, save that of her uncongenial mother, and her governess (as artificial and conventional a person as that prudent mother could procure to rectify the pupil’s natural qualities), and, now and then, her subdued, quiet sister.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

His most important pupil, Ahrens (professor in Leipsic, died 1874; Course of Philosophy , 1836-38; Natural Right , 1852), helped Krause's doctrine to gain recognition in France and Belgium by his fine translations into French; while it was introduced into Spain by J.S. del Rio of Madrid (died 1869).—Since the finite is a negative, the infinite a positive concept, and hence the knowledge of the infinite primal, the principle of philosophy is the absolute, and philosophy itself knowledge of God or the theory of essence.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

I do not fear to be degraded by this feeling, I am not ashamed of my love, I am proud of it.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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— from Bobby in Movieland by Francis J. (Francis James) Finn

You cut it to where it will feather in and not leave gaps.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

But in what follows I am not considering it for its own sake—though it is an interesting and important question.
— from Recent Tendencies in Ethics Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge by W. R. (William Ritchie) Sorley