The tavern in Covent Garden bearing that name was one of the first bathing establishments founded in England, and the fact that it introduced a method of ablution which had its origin in a country of slavery prompted Leigh Hunt to reflect that Englishmen need not have wondered how Eastern nations could endure their servitude.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

He still, however, reserved religion as a loathsome medicine, to which he feared he must have recourse at last, and of which he even now considered every abstinence from pleasure, or every exercise of piety as a bitter dose.
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic, its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

It has been said above that the power of that bond which from the origin of man united the race to its head was shown not only in the guilt which the act of that head was able to inflict on the body, not only in the exact transmission of the same nature, thus stained, from age to age, but likewise in that social character of the race in virtue of which such a thing as a man entirely independent of his fellow men, neither acting upon them, nor acted upon by them, never has existed nor can exist.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

His expression now changed entirely.
— from The Stories of the Three Burglars by Frank Richard Stockton

Dum in vita remanebo, Dei gratia gaudebo: Ejus domum habitabo, Ejus nomen collaudabo, Et indesinenter.
— from Rand and the Micmacs by Jeremiah S. Clark

Englishmen, in the pride of their greater freedom, often wonder how Eastern nations can endure their servitude.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

When I told him that we were resolved, if possible, to effect his escape, nothing could exceed his transport and gratitude; this was, indeed, expressed in so mean and servile a manner, mixed with so many petty threats of vengeance against Thornton, that I could scarcely conceal my disgust.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

His legs had gone out behind so far 'n' so unexpected that it seemed like he could n't get them high enough 'n' close enough to suit him, 'n' he just stood there drawin' them up alternate for all the world like a fly on fly-paper.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs by Anne Warner

In these respects few travellers have equalled, none certainly ever surpassed him.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park