He says, "This contracting of natural gestures into much shorter gestures than the natural expression requires, is very common amongst the deaf and dumb.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

In this sense the Boeotian poetry may be taken to have its germ in maxims similar to our English 'Till May be out, ne'er cast a clout,' or 'A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning.'
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

But Margaret is generally, I must say, a very tractable child."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Thus I do not say that bodies seem or appear to be external to me, or that my soul seems merely to be given in my self-consciousness, although I maintain that the properties of space and time, in conformity to which I set both, as the condition of their existence, abide in my mode of intuition, and not in the objects in themselves.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Lass Deinen Geist in meiner Stimme klingen, Und was Du sangst, lass mich es Dir nachsingen!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nam mellitus erat suamque norat Ipsam tam bene quam puella matrem; Nec sese a gremio illius movebat, Sed circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc 10 Ad solam dominam usque pipiabat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“But they insisted on their own view: love of one’s neighbor and Christianity—and all this in the presence of young Nicholas, who had gone into my study and broke all my things.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Well, really, Gwendolen, I must say that I think there are lots of other much nicer names.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

Indeed, I thought I detected that fear underlying his whole attitude towards us, and it strengthened a conviction which had been growing in me since Grimm's furtive midnight visit, that the secret of this coast was of so important and delicate a nature that rather than attract attention to it at all, overt action against intruders would be taken only in the last resort, and on irrefragable proofs of guilty intention.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

Yes, if you can go into mixed society as the Lord went, then go.
— from Tired Church Members by Anna Bartlett Warner

In his eyes, soft and full of understanding, there was a gentle, if masterful, smiling.
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris

Twice he got into more serious scrapes.
— from Swift by Leslie Stephen