The poor, on the contrary, make a great gossip and display about bereavement; and they are right.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Third: Boston's older ladies and gentlemen always dance at balls, and they neither rock around the floor, nor take their dancing violently.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I stood here, at the very spring and source of the second great period of the world’s history; and could see the trickling stream of that history gather and deepen and broaden, and roll its mighty tides down the far centuries; and I could note the upspringing of adventurers like myself in the shelter of its long array of thrones: D
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The same law must also lead us to affirm the possibility of the second element of the summum bonum, viz., happiness proportioned to that morality, and this on grounds as disinterested as before, and solely from impartial reason; that is, it must lead to the supposition of the existence of a cause adequate to this effect; in other words, it must postulate the existence of God, as the necessary condition of the possibility of the summum bonum (an object of the will which is necessarily connected with the moral legislation of pure reason).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Strictly reared by a mother gentle and devout, and by a father hard and avaricious.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Cosmo is quite as great a darling as baby, and not a bit stout, and as un-grumpy as ever husband was; only, sometimes he is very, very busy.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The eleven went into the forest and caught game, and deer, and birds, and wood-pigeons that they might have food, and the little sister and Benjamin took care to make it ready for them.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Here we witnessed a remarkable sight: At one time during the day could be seen horses, mules, buffaloes, antelopes, coyotes, wolves, a sand-hill crane, negro soldiers, white men, our part-Cherokee Indian and the Mexican guide, all drinking and bathing at one and the same time from this lake.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

Nor did Darby make resistance; but with arms folded on his breast he suffered it to be done, though his bosom heaved in the fierce struggle to be calm, and the flush left his face and it grew gray and drawn, and bitter agony looked out from his eyes.
— from Beatrix of Clare by John Reed Scott

Cork, unfortunately, is not growing as Dublin and Belfast are.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

Indeed the churches were everywhere, some of them humble enough, many of great antique dignity and beauty, almost all preserving the form of the basilica, the place of meeting where everything was open and clear for the holding of assemblies and delivery of addresses, not dim and mysterious as for sacrifices of faith.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

I could not endure the thought that so worthy a friend to America should have his life stolen from him in such a mean, base, and scandalous manner, and that his family and friends should be bereaved of so great and desirable a blessing, as his further care, usefulness and example, might prove to them.
— from Of the Capture of Ticonderoga: His Captivity and Treatment by the British by Ethan Allen

A number of jackasses were sent to pasture in a meadow that was all green grass and dandelions and buttercups and daisies.
— from A Book Without a Title by George Jean Nathan