Miss Pinkerton's attachment was, as may be supposed from the high position and eminent virtues of that lady, calm and dignified; but Miss Jemima had already whimpered several times at the idea of Amelia's departure; and, but for fear of her sister, would have gone off in downright hysterics, like the heiress (who paid double) of St. Kitt's.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Whoever takes the trouble to study the faces of the jury during trial, comes to the conclusion that the speeches of the prosecution and defense are the most important things in the trial, that they absorb most of the attention of the jury, and that the question of guilt or innocence does not depend upon the number and weight of the testimony but upon the more or less skilful interpretation of it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If you were to succeed in overthrowing us and in taking our place, you would speedily lose the popularity with which fear of us has invested you, if your policy of to-day is at all to tally with the sample that you gave of it during the brief period of your command against the Mede.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

As the guardian of the mores, religion develops prohibitions and "taboos" of actions of which the group, or its dominant class, disapproves.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

[‘ eme ’; Ger. oheim] II. dp.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

This young and beautiful girl given over in disarray to the ardent young man, made melted lead flow in his-veins; his eyes darted with sensual jealousy beneath all those loosened pins.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I am frightened; to go on is dreadful, too.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But Hugo and I were two absolutely different characters: he was cold and calm and polished and severe, and harboured the remembrance of good or ill done him; whilst I am open and quick and demonstrative, and make game of things, forgetful of ill, and sometimes of good.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

The bracken grove of irretrievable delights, of golden minutes in the long marriage of heaven and earth!
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Everhard their eldest son, now sixteen, possessed too much beauty for his sex, and his delicate and brilliant complexion, his slender and exquisitely moulded form, and the modulation of his tender and tremulous voice, inspired that mingled interest, with which we watch, in youth, over the strife of present debility with the promise of future strength, and infused into his parent’s hearts that fond anxiety with which we mark the progress of a mild but cloudy morning in spring, rejoicing in the mild and balmy glories of its dawn, but fearing lest clouds may overshade them before noon.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

Just at the same moment, too, a village clock, with its kindly bell, tolled the hour, sounding clear and calm upon the still night air; and Manners, though without any great object in doing so, paused to make out the inscription of one hundred and some miles from London, and to count twelve, struck distinctly on the bell of the clock.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But go on, I do not yet understand—" Tobias cast a timid glance at the door, and then continued, but in a lower tone than before.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

The day before my departure from Venice I did not go out; I devoted the whole of the day to friendship.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military Career by Giacomo Casanova

The coach out from Last Chance had gone on its dangerous run with a very large sum in gold-dust, but Dave had gotten safely through with it, and was congratulated by all who knew the chances he had taken of losing treasure and life.
— from Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer; Or, The Stranger in Camp by Prentiss Ingraham

The resources of pleasure to the possessors of wealth are only to be cut off by the satiety of which they are productive: a satiety which the vigorous mind of Mr Monckton had not yet suffered him to experience; his time, therefore, was either devoted to the expensive amusements of the metropolis, or spent in the country among the gayest of its diversions.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

They had gone off in directions nearly opposite!
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid