If Mr. Bulstrode insisted, as he was apt to do, on the Lutheran doctrine of justification, as that by which a Church must stand or fall, Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; if Mrs. Wimple insisted on a particular providence in relation to her stomach complaint, Dr. Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope's "Essay on Man."
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“Here,” said Caderousse, “draw me all that on the paper, my boy.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by him, and probably despised by him.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

ght him," (Ptolemy Philopator against Antiochus the Great at Raphia), "and conquer; and his troops shall become insolent, and his heart shall be lifted up," (this Ptolemy desecrated the temple; Josephus): "he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

In this way it might come about that in man and the monkeys the basal ganglia should do fewer things by themselves than they can do in dogs, fewer in dogs than in rabbits, fewer in rabbits than in hawks, [98] fewer in hawks than in pigeons, fewer in pigeons than in frogs, fewer in frogs than in fishes, and that the hemispheres should correspondingly do more.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

"What has happened in the schoolroom," she resumed, "has so completely distracted my attention from the subject of the letter, that I feel a little bewildered when I try to return to it.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

It was said of her, "She can draw marvellously."
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Philopator against Antiochus the Great at Raphia—"and his troops shall become insolent, and his heart shall be lifted up,"—this Ptolemy desecrated the temple—Josephus—"and he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

At least, we may infer so from the eagerness with which she seconded her mother in pressing the union of her sister, Catherine de Medicis' younger daughter, with the prince.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

No, mother, no, I cannot kiss the hand that has so cruelly dashed my hopes to earth.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

“True,” he said, candidly, “Don Manoel had a right to be angry with me, after all.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

About my papers I have a greater grievance, for he has so completely deprived me of them that I have never been able to obtain a single one from him; and those that would have been most useful in my exculpation are precisely those which he has kept most concealed.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7 by Filson Young

On horseback she could defy man or God.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

And she, the basilisk, she loves him too, though she pretends to be so very coy and particular: she loves him: she cannot deceive me: I saw it at once, and I see it still through all her silly transparent pretences.
— from Babylon, Volume 3 by Grant Allen