Like Milton's good and bad angels “as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size Assume as likes them best, condense or rare.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It is true that even the dullest of them accept on authority recognisedly great works, lest otherwise they should argue their own incompetence; but they wait in silence, always ready to express their condemnation, as soon as they are allowed to hope that they may do so without being left [pg 303] to stand alone; and then their long-restrained hatred against all that is great and beautiful, and against the authors of it, gladly relieves itself; for such things never appealed to them, and for that very reason were humiliating to them.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn; and, on a sunny day, the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Early in the morning he was given a bed and a bag full of linen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is chiefly this that makes him so different from all those about him, good and bad alike, and hardly less different from most of Shakespeare's other heroes.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

This is the case in the normal intrigues, going on every night in the village between unmarried girls and boys, and also in more ceremonial cases of indulgence, like the katuyausi custom, or the mortuary consolations, mentioned in Chapter II, Division II .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried; The sweete embraces of a loving wife, Loden with kisses, armd with thousand Cupids Shall never claspe our neckes, no issue know us, No figures of our selves shall we ev'r see, To glad our age, and like young Eagles teach 'em Boldly to gaze against bright armes, and say: 'Remember what your fathers were, and conquer.'
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And this is still more evident when the players come in, and he talks of one having grown a beard, and another having perhaps cracked his voice, since they last met.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He is old, now, and grave, as becomes an age like his; he indulges in no light amusements save that he goes sometimes to executions, and is fond of funerals.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Yet with every allowance, one feels it difficult to see how any mortal ever could consider this Koran as a Book written in Heaven, too good for the Earth; as a well-written book, or indeed as a book at all; and not a bewildered rhapsody; written , so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

We'll get a boat and a mozo--" "What's a mozo?"
— from Ken Ward in the Jungle by Zane Grey

The man gave the horse a crack with his whip, which made no difference whatever in our rate of speed, and said:— "If you've got a bill agin any of them, sir, you needn't worry.
— from The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton

While in Boston I made a pilgrimage to dear Dall's grave: a bitter and a sad few minutes I spent, lying upon that ground beneath which she lay, and from which her example seemed to me to rise in all the brightness of its perfect lovingness and self-denial.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

"I have got a bed at an hotel.
— from The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The telegraph was a great and brilliant achievement, and brought to its inventor well-earned fame.
— from Stories of Later American History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

'T is possible he believes the boat has got adrift by accident, and has no thought of our bein' out of the brig.”
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

When we first came into personal relations, at the Liberal Convention, which assembled at Cincinnati and nominated Greeley and Brown as a presidential ticket, he was just turned forty-three; I, two and thirty.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

The ancient mythology of the good and bad genii, having passed from the East to Greece and Rome, we consecrated this opinion, for admitting for each individual a good and an evil angel, of whom one assists him and the other torments him, from his birth to his death; but it is not yet known whether these good and bad angels are continually passing from one to another, or are relieved by others.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire