She had a serpentine way of coming close at me when she pretended to be vitally interested in the friends and localities I had left, which was altogether snaky and fork-tongued; and when she made an occasional bounce upon Startop (who said very little to her), or upon Drummle (who said less), I rather envied them for being on the opposite side of the table.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.
— 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.

Now then, I suppose that I have seen a man whose occupation is really entitled to bear that high epithet—unique.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

When a man has not in him what is loftier and mightier than all external impressions a bad cold is really enough to upset his equilibrium and make him begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog howling in every sound.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

found Several Indians from the village, I Smoked with them; Soon after my return two Canoes loaded with fish & Bear grass for the trade below, came down,from the village at the mouth of the Catterack River, they unloaded and turned their Canoes up Side down on the beech, & camped under a Shelveing rock below our Camp one of the men Shot a goose above this Great Shute, which was floating into the Shute when an Indian observed it, plunged into the water & Swam to the Goose and brought in on Shore, at the head of the Suck, as this Indian richly earned the goose I Suffered him to keep it which he about half picked and Spited it up with the guts in it to roste.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In the intense religious enthusiasm that was generated, many of the ties of life were snapped in twain.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And if, resigning empire, thou Submit thee to the hermit's vow, The noblest gain from virtue springs, And virtue joy unending brings.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Mr. Dempster had already tried several times to speak while Miss Halcombe was examining his pupil, and he now interposed resolutely enough to make himself heard.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Doubtless he felt that it was easier to improve than to invent, and that in religion especially the traditional form was required in order to give verisimilitude to the myth.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Has the girl who is rich enough to pay the debts of a Pollnitz no guardian?" "Father and mother both live, sire; and both receive me joyfully as their son.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It is rare enough to find it in individuals; and, although the press has permission to exhaust laudation and flattery, its censure is resented as impertinence.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Bragg, Hardee, Breckenridge and others of inferior rank exerted themselves to prevent defeat, and Gen. Bragg was nearly surrounded before he entirely despaired and abandoned the field.
— from Chattanooga or Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge from Moccasin Point by Wood, Bradford Ripley, Jr.

I rather expected that, after a night’s calm consideration of his exploit, Williams would have come to the conclusion that discretion was the better part of valour, and would have taken some steps toward the patching up of a truce; but he did not, and I spent the whole of that day also locked up in the cabin, and seeing no soul but the steward who brought my meals to me.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

as Colonel Ward asked, in his indignant refusal even to listen to the petition.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

Similarly, 'visible' and 'invisible' refer either to the power of emitting or reflecting light, so that the words have no hold
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

That there might be something more blessed than [42] that independence she is ready enough to admit to herself.
— from Travelling Sketches by Anthony Trollope

What it shows is really enough to drive a man of lively imagination mad.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The earlier part of it ran even Trollope hard.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

She was in the presence, she felt, of restless change: wasn't it restless enough that her mother and her stepfather should already be on different sides?
— from What Maisie Knew by Henry James