She had brought her feelings and her generosity to where neither generosity nor emotion were wanted.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

15. Go now ever where calamity may be, and no [Pg 111] harm shall obstruct thy wishes.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

“Marvel not at that, Sancho my friend,” said Don Quixote; “for let me tell thee devils are crafty; and even if they do carry odours about with them, they themselves have no smell, because they are spirits; or, if they have any smell, they cannot smell of anything sweet, but of something foul and fetid; and the reason is that as they carry hell with them wherever they go, and can get no ease whatever from their torments, and as a sweet smell is a thing that gives pleasure and enjoyment, it is impossible that they can smell sweet; if, then, this devil thou speakest of seems to thee to smell of amber, either thou art deceiving thyself, or he wants to deceive thee by making thee fancy he is not a devil.” Such was the conversation that passed between master and man; and Don Fernando and Cardenio, apprehensive of Sancho’s making a complete discovery of their scheme, towards which he had already gone some way, resolved to hasten their departure, and calling the landlord aside, they directed him to saddle Rocinante and put the pack-saddle on Sancho’s ass, which he did with great alacrity.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Further than paper it never got, nor ever will get.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"Marvel not at that, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; "for let me tell thee devils are crafty; and even if they do carry odours about with them, they themselves have no smell, because they are spirits; or, if they have any smell, they cannot smell of anything sweet, but of something foul and fetid; and the reason is that as they carry hell with them wherever they go, and can get no ease whatever from their torments, and as a sweet smell is a thing that gives pleasure and enjoyment, it is impossible that they can smell sweet; if, then, this devil thou speakest of seems to thee to smell of amber, either thou art deceiving thyself, or he wants to deceive thee by making thee fancy he is not a devil."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then the barbarous pronunciation was frequently met with among them, from their military expeditions into Greece; and afterwards it spread much more, from the time that they occupied the islands together with the Greeks: not even when
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"That's why you are going, is it? Turned out?" "We are not turned out exactly; but as they said we should have to go soon, it was best to go now everybody was moving, because there are better chances.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

At first, he could give no encouragement; with unfeigned diffidence, he expressed his conviction that he was not adequate to the performance of so great a task; the path marked out was wholly an untrodden one; he was sincerely apprehensive that he should do more harm than good.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

the least of men, we have endeavored to present a succinct but faithful narrative—“his glory not extenuated wherein he was worthy, nor his offences enforced, for which he suffered” merited obloquy with his own contemporaries and all posterity.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

He ne'er did good nor ever would Had he lived as long again.
— from Quaint Epitaphs by Various

That telephone girl, now,——" "Eliza, will you keep still?" fumed Miss Prall.
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

Presently, as we could get no eggs, we moved off sorrowfully but not discouraged; and the men remained looking after us silent and uncertain.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

He got his money, but would give no explanation whether he had seen the king’s daughter, and he would not take the post again, he said.
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

If the nerve-current be not given, nothing else will take its place.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

Pa has got nerve enough, when he is on the inside of the house and the burglars are on the outside.
— from The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

We see before us a great nation, endowed with some of the highest capacities of human nature, allowing itself to be absorbed more and more, year by year, by a great passion for power and dominion and supremacy in the world.
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace

The Great Northern engine will take twenty-six and keep time, and the Brighton single engine has taken the five P.M. express from London Bridge to Brighton, consisting of twenty-two coaches, at a speed of forty-five miles per hour.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

The path to this hamlet passes through pastures and gardens, necked everywhere with those brilliant scarlet poppies that are so radiant and so bewitching in the English landscape.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter