[409] as having his crest of hair "erect and projecting forward, his nostrils dilated, and his under lip thrown down; at the same time uttering his characteristic yell, designed, it would seem, to terrify his antagonists."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

And my sisters?” “At the Madelonettes.” The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma’am Bougon, and said:— “Ah!” Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:— “Le roi Coupdesabot S’en
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“My name really is Lukian Timofeyovitch,” acknowledged Lebedeff, lowering his eyes, and putting his hand on his heart.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

kathaper gar ho Pheidias eiche men tas dynameis tês technês kai prin psauein tês hylês, enêrgei d' autais peri tên hylên—hapasa gar dynamis argei aporousa tês oikeias hylês—, houtô kai to sperma tas men || 84 dynameis oikothen ekektêto, tas d' energeias ouk ek tês hylês elaben, alla peri tên hylên epedeixato.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

I believe no man thinks a goose to be more beautiful than a swan, or imagines that what they call a Friesland hen excels a peacock.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

He had courage: out of this deficiency he established a principle;
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Anxiety and fear took possession of the Dryad; she felt as if she had entered a place where she had no right to be.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

When, however, we returned to Switzerland towards the end of June, and he found himself once more in the familiar and exhilarating air of the mountains, all his joyous creative powers revived, and in a note to me announcing the dispatch of some manuscript, he wrote as follows: “I have engaged a place here for three months: forsooth, I am the greatest fool to allow my courage to be sapped from me by the climate of Italy.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No order, sex, age, or condition Here enjoys any privilege.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

'Why does she blacken her eyebrows, and paint her lips, and powder her cheeks?
— from Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

When an Italian countryman says of a place that even cats will not stay in it, he considers that he has evoked a picture of ultimate desolation that cannot be surpassed.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Many officers of distinction, among them Gen. Whiteside himself, enlisted as private soldiers, and served in that capacity to the end of the war.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

I wish to show you how much I value the service you have rendered us; for had the Sioux assailed the fort—as not only had the provisions, but our ammunition run short—they very probably would have entered and put every one within to death.”
— from The Trapper's Son by William Henry Giles Kingston

Then—Roy himself, broader, browner; his father's smile in his eyes; and, permeating all, the spirit of his mother, clearly discernible to the man who had given it life.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

His endurance and pluck had been extraordinary.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

The people, however, enjoyed a profound peace by this policy.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

They realize, when making it, that they are exercising one of the highest and most important privileges society has granted to the individual—the right to speak and order as to the disposition of his effects and property after he has ceased to live.
— from The Curiosities and Law of Wills by John Proffatt