The " good man " Or, hemiplegia of virtue.—In the opinion of every strong and natural man, [Pg 283] love and hate, gratitude and revenge, goodness and anger, affirmative and negative action, belong to each other.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Here he saw a very fine bed, hung round with curtains, and store of dresses upon the pegs and other very goodly and rich gear, after the usance of those parts; by reason whereof, like a freshman as he was, he firmly believed her to be no less than a great lady.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Mrs. Walker was silent a moment; she gave a rapid glance at Winterbourne.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

The area we have presumed is comprised within the Arabian Sea W., the Persian Gulf E., the Indian Ocean S., and an irregular line skirting the desert, and running up in a narrow point to Idumæa N. See Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geography, art.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

[A] Colours —For the Chiné: Gold and red, gold and dark blue and gold and green.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

murmured the innocent girl, as, reclining gracefully against the root of the tree, she gathered up her skirts and tied a handkerchief around her throat.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Elsewhere in both "Iliad" and "Odyssey" the offer of a present is immediately followed by the statement that it was given and received gladly—Alcinous actually does give a chest and a cloak and shirt—probably also some of the corn and wine for the long two-mile voyage was provided by him—but it is quite plain that he gave no talent and no cup.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

De Guiche and Raoul glanced at each other, smiling.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

To which proposition poor Bill grinned a rather ghastly assent.
— from Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

The botanists would for once have given a really good and right name to the plants which have this kind of leaf, 'Ensatæ,' from the Latin 'ensis,' a sword; if only sata had been properly formed from sis.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

Therefore, my friends, open your eyes and your hearts freely to the message which God is sending you, in summer and winter, in seed-time and in harvest, in sunshine and in storm; that God is not a hard God, a revengeful God, a God of curses, who is extreme to mark what is done amiss, and keepeth his anger for ever.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

The fine stores and shops, along such streets as the Dronning Gatan and Regerings Gatan and adjacent thoroughfares, H declares quite equal to those of Copenhagen; while in an ancient and narrow alleyway she discovered a perfect mint of embroideries and linens, articles of feminine apparel which rejoice her heart.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

Account, give a reason, give an explanation.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

We have real grandmothers and real grandchildren, and our fathers are real heads of the family.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

22 At the head of them was Sir Henry Billingsley, 23 a former mayor, Sir Henry Montague, 24 recently appointed Recorder of the city upon the king's own recommendation, Nicholas Fuller, of whom little is known beyond the fact that he came from Berkshire and married the daughter of Nicholas Backhouse, 25 alderman and grocer, and Richard Gore, a merchant tailor.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

Gibraltar was known to the Greek and Roman geographers as Calpe or Alybe, the two names being probably corruptions of the same local (perhaps Phenician) word.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various