Loyalty has scarcely less tendency to refine and elevate the heart than patriotism itself.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He may find his six feet of earth when God chooses, and keep it in peace, perhaps, if he has a friend who will take the pains to sink his head so low that the plowshares cannot reach it!”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The people at last had so little freedom under him, that it was not allowed to every man to believe in what god he pleased.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But, when he made some observation on Valancourt's partner, the fear of shewing that she was interested in the remark, would have betrayed it to him, had not the Count, while he spoke, looked towards the person of whom he was speaking.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

He passed for a young man who had not been afraid of risks, and he knew that his secret love-affair with poor silly Mrs. Thorley Rushworth had not been too secret to invest him with a becoming air of adventure.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[47] James Salter, a former servant of Hans Sloane, lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Of course, there are plenty of instances of wilful shirking, where a little effort can overcome the slackness of memory; but every teacher who is honest enough to reckon with himself knows he cannot give a sensible reason why things are to be taught which have so little to do with the child's life that to-morrow, or the day after examination, they will be forgotten; things which he himself could not remember were he not repeating them year in and year out, as a matter of his trade.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

She had scarcely lifted her own diameter above the horizon when the sentries, flat on their backs, with arms extended, were sleeping as soundly as the others.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

“Why?” asked Compton, restraining himself lest he should loose another button.
— from Bobby in Movieland by Francis J. (Francis James) Finn

This substance reacts most violently with water, dissolving with a hissing sound like that produced when a red-hot poker is plunged into water.
— from Acids, Alkalis and Salts by George Henry Joseph Adlam

Nothing more was said till they reached the house, when, on entering the lighted study, Philip noticed that his cousin's face was flushed, and his hands shaking like aspen leaves.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He was stung to no reply, and she had noted the circumstance as unusual, and also that he had appeared to labor with the suppression of a keen excitement, which made him anxious to escape from her sharp little eyes; an agitation for which she easily accounted when she recalled that he had seen Vanrevel on the previous evening.
— from The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington

And so here there is brought to my attention one of those subterranean sources of public opinion in Russia, which I have so long sought."
— from The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz