And so, at an age when it would appear—since one seeks in love before everything else a subjective pleasure—that the taste for feminine beauty must play the larger part in its procreation, love may come into being, love of the most physical order, without any foundation in desire.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

“You see,” said Father Brown in low but easy tone, “Scotch people before Scotland existed were a curious lot.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"For it'll look bad when Justice Malam hears as respectable men like us had a information laid before 'em and took no steps.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

"The village commune," said he, "is a subject which you would do better to discuss with your brother, since he is learning by experience the meaning of that commune, and of its circular guarantee, and of its enforced sobriety and other contrivances."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It is also significant that writers on aesthetic had felt themselves compelled to set up a theory [Pg 402] of imitation long before experimental psychologists had begun to turn their attention in this direction.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla —The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual.
— 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.

Hic tractatus in lingua Britannica eleganter scriptus est, et talium nebulonum inscitiam protervam facile retundit.
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans

The females sought their mantles the moment the bright light was followed by the usual shadow; nor was it long before even the more aged of the gentlemen were seen unstrapping their cloaks, and taking the customary precautions against the effects of the evening air.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

She was thus employed when Harry came in, looking black enough.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Webber, in his Romance of Natural History , gives the size of the diminutive sarcophagi of the supposed pygmies found in Tennessee as three feet in length by eighteen inches in depth.
— from The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

As for Mrs. Crawley's character, I shan't demean myself or that most spotless and perfectly irreproachable lady by even hinting that it requires a defence.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray