Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I speak with feeling on this subject, because I caught my foot in one of those ruts, and the sadness that came over me when I saw the first poor skeleton, with ashes and lava sticking to it, was tempered by the reflection that may be that party was the Street Commissioner.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

It seems as if certain mechanical conclusions should be drawn from this state of things.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

As it contained matter on which I thought Steerforth could advise me as well as anyone, and on which I knew I should be delighted to consult him, I resolved to make it a subject of discussion on our journey home.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I say, I cannot speak positively of these things, because these were only the dismal objects which represented themselves to me as I looked through my chamber windows (for I seldom opened the casements), while I confined myself within doors during that most violent raging of the pestilence; when, indeed, as I have said, many began to think, and even to say, that there would none escape; and indeed I began to think so too, and therefore kept within doors for about a fortnight and never stirred out.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

I confine myself to throwing out the observation, that, at the hour and place I have indicated, may be found such ruined vestiges as yet ‘Remain, ‘Of ‘A ‘Fallen Tower, ‘WILKINS MICAWBER.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

For unabashed though he is, there will be some slight shame in his eyes before you; but he has no respect for me, but ever slights me in contentious mood.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Now I change my mind, And partly credit things that do presage.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Calling out in a loud voice for silence, I thus addressed the weeping subjects of Queen Galaxa:— “O Mikkamenkies, Men of Goggle Land, Transparent Folk, I count myself most happy to be among you at this hour and to be permitted, by your gracious queen, to raise my voice in defence of the unfortunate princess with the speck in her heart.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

And for the Filipinos, patriotic duty means a full acceptance of government as it has now been established, as better than what has preceded, and perhaps superior to what he himself would have chosen and could have devised; a loyalty to his own people and to their interests and to the public interests, that shall, overcome the personal selfishness that has set its cruel mark on every native institution in this land; and a resolution to obey the laws, preserve the peace, and use faithfully every opportunity for the development of his own character and the betterment of the race.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Nay, the chalk of Northern Europe, and also of Western Asia, where it constitutes most of Mount Lebanon, and extends southerly through Palestine into Arabia and Egypt, and also deposits in North and South America, thousands of miles in extent,—this rock, I say, is nearly half composed of microscopic shells.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

At the Provincial Sunday-school Convention, held last October in Cobourg, Mr. Hughes and the writer took the opportunity to bring the plan of the C. L. S. C. before the delegates, and many became interested in it, some of whom have since become members; among those was Dr. C. V. Emory, of Galt , who upon his return home, immediately set to work and organized a circle, which numbers sixteen full members, and gives promise that the number will soon be doubled.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

It cannot mean "by" faith, in the sense of "according to" faith, or as faith directs.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

But the strangest thing was — I wish I could make you understand how positively EERIE it makes me feel — that just the instant before he said, "It is wonderful to be understood!"
— from Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis

Graucalus 7 India, Ceylon, Malaya, Philippines, Hainan and Formosa Australian 103.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

The Trent affair — Scott home again — The war investigation committee — Mr. Mercier, 129 (p. vii) JANUARY, 1862.
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

[403] Alessandro Conte Manzoni (1784-1873), the Italian poet, from whose ode, Il Cinque Maggio , the above lines are taken.—T.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

There was a man in a boat on the water getting wet, but catching nothing, as far as I could make out, unless it were a cold.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey