It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

" "Why does Marian go to Limmeridge and leave me here by myself?" said her ladyship, interrupting Sir Percival.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Petrarch, that had so magnified his Laura in several poems, when by the pope's means she was offered unto him, would not accept of her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He perceives that if his law is still paramount, if still he have elemental power, if his word is sterling yet in nature, it is not conscious power, it is not inferior but superior to his will.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Had I when born, from fair Calliope Received a gift such as she can bestow Upon her lovers, it should pass from me To Æsop, and that very soon, I know; I'd consecrate it to his pleasant lies.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Yet no; I believe that, even if you had received a fashionable education, and had mixed with society, and had lived in St. Petersburg, you would still have been just the kulak 26 that you are.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He told us gay stories of his life in St. Petersburg; of the pranks he had played in the Florentine Carnival; of his journey to the American States, and his narrow escape from the matrimonial clutches of a Boston heiress.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

[Pg 43] Then something within her laughed in scornful protest.
— from The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy

I felt in front of me with my hands, lest I should place the weight of my body upon some stick that would snap with a sharp report.
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Noticing To hausen's dilapidated old ambulance standing near his lodge, I said: [Pg 219] "Captain, do you see that old government ambulance?"
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

And though many men visited him from good will and the Greek cities vied in sending deputations to him, yet he passed his time in despondency 235 and exceeding grief, for the most part looking to Italy, like those who are desperately in love, and in his bearing became very mean and humbled by reason of his calamity, and so downcast as no one would have expected from a man who had spent his life in such philosophical pursuits.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

These words are so characteristic of her, that in beginning the story of her life it seems proper to dwell at some length on the ancestors whose memory she cherished with such reverence.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The British Museum contains some of his letters, and his library is still preserved at Naworth.
— from In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

The face had lost its soulless, painted-doll expression, and she was evidently happy beyond all measure to be among those she could love and trust, sitting on a footstool by Mrs. Brownlow’s knee, leaning against her, and now and then murmuring: “O Mother Carey, how I have longed for you!”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge