He had nothing of the so-called British stiffness, and in a broad English accent he thanked me warmly for my attention.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"The Hsüeh family have plenty of money, so that if your Worship adjudicates that they should pay five hundred, they can afford it, or one thousand will also be within their means; and this sum can be handed to the Feng family to meet the outlay of burning incense and burial expenses.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye."
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

In the Swedish geographical journal, "Ymer," 1884, there is an interesting account by E. W. Dahlgren of the copies of Bering's chart in Sweden.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Louis Bonaparte, mistrusting the workmen of the National Printing-Office, and not without reason, for twelve, as has been seen, were refractory, had improvised a branch establishment in case of emergency, a sort of State Sub-Printing-Office, as it were, situated in the Rue de Luxembourg, with steam and hand presses, and eight workmen.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The little champion again rejoined, with energy sufficient to raise admiration in any breast, except that of this unprincipled and unfeeling wretch—this miscreant, eager to execute the behests of a remorseless queen—"My father is no heretic: for you have Balaam's mark."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The original letters in the Synodicon (c. 15, 24, 25, 26) justify the appearance of a voluntary resignation, which is asserted by Ebed-Jesu, a Nestorian writer, apud Asseman.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Had he gone no farther than to insist on this exact counterpoise of right and interest, as between employer and employe, and between the interest represented by him and the public interest, his course would have stood out in marked contrast with the conduct of too many clothed with the brief authority of corporate power.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

His theories relating to the structure of glaciers were incorporated in a book entitled " Système Glaciare ."
— from The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919 by Ernest Ingersoll

Somerset’s policy of deliberately restoring ancient relationships with a strong hand could hardly even be begun without those who pursued it taking sides in a bitter economic agitation, and essaying openly to reverse the whole agrarian movement with which, in the course of the past half century, the wealth of the middle and upper classes, at any rate south of the Trent, had become inextricably identified.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

To these miscellaneous orders Jeffreys bowed solemnly, and did not fail to exhibit his clumsiness by dropping Raby’s waterproof in a belated effort to raise his hat.
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

the sight constantly before their eyes of a father so guilty as I am is a terrible thing; it must undermine parental influence and break every family tie.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

One has only to recollect that if he were suddenly to get out of control, every person in the vicinity would run the risk of being banged into a boneless emulsion....”
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

Now you lie together in a bloody embrace.
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. II. by Ludwig Tieck

The Historie of Italie, a boke excedyng profitable to be redde; because it intreateth of the estate of many and divers commonweales, how they have been, and now be governed .
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

I could show that similar conditions prevail in the sugar industry and, to some extent, in agriculture; but enough has been said to prove that the working classes are differently situated from those in older countries and partially to explain their willingness to form themselves into Trades Unions and the combativeness of these organisations.
— from Australasian Democracy by Henry de Rosenbach Walker