when 10 it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Hurrying into another room, Miss Jenny got a glass of water, and brought it for Fledgeby's relief: who, gasping, spluttering, and rattling in his throat betweenwhiles, drank some water, and laid his head faintly on her arm.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I grumbled, swore, and wished all this troublesome medley at the devil, while she seemed to enjoy it, laughing at my chagrin till the tears ran down her cheeks.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations; therefore the lott'ry that he hath devised in these three chests, of gold, silver, and lead- whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you- will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I asked pardon with a great deal of submission, and protested I had no intention of hurting him; but the more I humbled myself the more he stormed, and insisted on gentlemanly satisfaction, at the same time provoking me with scandalous names that I could not put up with; so that I gave loose to my passion, returned his Billingsgate, and challenged him down to the piazzas.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A man born with a good, sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart and good limbs, and a pretty good head-piece is rich.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Life, and Death, and Giants Such as these, are still.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

The onagers, who had two pretty colts, were most often mounted by Gideon Spilett and Herbert, who had become an excellent rider under the reporter’s instruction, and they also harnessed them to the cart either for carrying wood and coal to Granite House, or different mineral productions required by the engineer.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

We are bound, you see, to give some account of Becky's biography, but of this part, the less, perhaps, that is said the better.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The enumeration of the drags and traps following would resemble that of the Greek ships at the siege of Troy.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood

He descended to the ground stiff and numb, and Bertram walked across from his own machine to make inquiries.
— from Tam o' the Scoots by Edgar Wallace

We must conclude that Alfred classed them thus, as he was a great student and writer all his days, and there is no other place than this third head to which the duties of this nature can be assigned.
— from King Alfred of England Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

"Islam," that is the resignation of our own will to that of one great power, the effacement of self, the futility of putting our own will or mind against that of the great, silent, all powerful, inevitable laws of Nature—the Moslem idea of Fate and Power—the Christian's blending of his own will with the Divine will—the scientist's recognition of Law—you may put it how you will; are they not but different interpretations of the unseen power, which, silent in itself and only understood in silence, holds supreme sway in moments of silence, and, when expressed in its physical aspect in these barren regions of the earth, appeals through our eyes and ears to the regions in us, beyond these senses, where it exists in its essential condition?
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

D’Argenton immediately ordered one made on a gigantic scale, and placed it on his roof.
— from Jack 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

Religion, when fairly considered in its genuine simplicity and uncorrupted state, is the source of endless rapture and delight.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

[9-15] The statistical low point in terms of the ratio of Negroes in the postwar regular general service and the Steward's Branch occurred in fiscal year 1947 when only 19.21 percent of the Navy's regular black personnel were assigned outside the Steward's Branch.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

So we got supper and ate it inside where Motu wouldn’t be seen.
— from Mark Tidd's Citadel by Clarence Budington Kelland