I think I must have sat at it as grave as a judge; for, I remember, the hysteric affectations of good Lady Wishfort affected me like some solemn tragic passion.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I turned over on my face, I recollect, to hide my trembling lip, which answered her with greater truth.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires,—and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.
— from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

I have said that, in the first years of our connexion as schoolmates, my feelings in regard to him might have been easily ripened into friendship: but, in the latter months of my residence at the academy, although the intrusion of his ordinary manner had, beyond doubt, in some measure, abated, my sentiments, in nearly similar proportion, partook very much of positive hatred.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

He did not covet the post relatively to the farm: in relation to herself, as beloved by him and unmarried to another, he had coveted it.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I to the Chapel a little, but hearing nothing did take a turn into the Park, and then back to Chapel and heard a very good Anthem to my heart’s delight, and then to Sir G. Carteret’s to dinner, and before dinner did walk with him alone a good while, and from him hear our case likely for all these acts to be bad for money, which troubles me, the year speeding so fast, and he tells me that he believes the Duke of York will go to sea with the fleete, which I am sorry for in respect to his person, but yet there is no person in condition to command the fleete, now the Captains are grown so great, but him, it being impossible for anybody else but him to command any order or discipline among them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Woman, knowing what man feels in regard to her, tries to meet his idealising endeavours half-way by decorating herself, by walking and dancing well, by expressing delicate thoughts: in addition, she may practise modesty, shyness, reserve—prompted by her instinctive feeling that the idealising power of man increases with all this, (In the extraordinary finesse of woman's instincts, modesty must not by any means be considered as conscious hypocrisy: she guesses that it is precisely artlessness and real shame which seduces man most and urges him to an exaggerated
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There will, evidently, be every facility, for I read those hints, which have puzzled you, as intimating anything but reserve once you are admitted into the inner arcana of their lives, or I am much mistaken.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

It is therefore natural that the actions should appear to be referable to the character which is derived from them; but it is not correct to say that there is equivalence, for abstraction is not equivalent to concretion.—The individual, even if he can be conceived as free in respect to his external environment, would be always subject to the law of his own nature.—But the law of his own nature is not a contingent thing, but the law itself of the Spirit, or, precisely, freedom, and it is quite clear that freedom is not free not to be free.—The social organism has its natural laws, which govern the action of the individual.—The social organism is also [Pg 186] an abstraction, which is turned into a being only by the false interpretation of a metaphor.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

His moral feeling in regard to his own conduct was dead; but his power of correct moral decision when applied to another was undiminished.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

Since she was ignorant of his feeling in regard to her, he argued, there could be no harm in their meeting; he had sufficient self-control to be able to converse with a woman without allowing her to suspect that he was interested in her in any marked degree.
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

I wish that I could report more favorably in regard to his health.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

If such applicant, however, is outbid, his fee is returned to him.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

But never try to proselytise, the world is not yet fit to receive what you and Emerson say: man, as he now is, can no more do without creeds and forms in religion than he can do without laws and rules in social intercourse.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

"I thank you sincerely for your friendly intentions towards me," said Ellen, now recovering her presence of mind; "but, since my father is restored to health, I have little to vex me."
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

What were his father's fears in relation to his new occupation? 9.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Was it not failing in respect to her love that she did not admire him in every way?
— from Conscience — Volume 4 by Hector Malot

Sifting fine snow at her feet, it rose to her knees, her waist, her shoulders, then began cutting at her cheeks.
— from A Ticket to Adventure A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell