It appeared to him that he saw all this in Rachael’s face, and looked at nothing besides.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance, Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now this man, who foresaw what might befall me, bade me look to the end of my life, and not be arrogant on the strength of a fleeting prosperity."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord: Thou hast a lady far more beautiful Than any woman in this waning age.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All ports I’ll bar; the villain shall not scape; The Duke must grant me that: besides, his picture I will send far and near, that all the kingdom May have due note of him; and of my land, Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means To make thee capable.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

And would you believe it, Putohin was not so much put out at the loss of his job as at being superseded by a young lady and not by a man.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation:— “Sudiev' kvietkeli, tu brangiausis; Sudiev' ir laime, man biednam, Matau—paskyre teip Aukszcziausis, Jog vargt ant svieto reik vienam!”
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

"There is a strange affectation," says the bishop, "in some people of explaining away all particular affection, and representing the whole life as nothing but one continued exercise of self-love.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

This made him later at night, but he generally found an opportunity of doing his lessons before going home.
— from The Gayton Scholarship: A School Story by Herbert Hayens

The next man up laid a neat bunt down toward third; Delvin came rushing in, scooped it up neatly and hurled it straight for the bag.
— from Won in the Ninth The first of a series of stories for boys on sports to be known as The Matty Books by Christy Mathewson

Bear Creek—so called, perhaps, because it was always so particularly bare of bears—is hidden out of sight now, under islands and continents of piled lumber, and nobody but an expert can find it.
— from Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. by Mark Twain

But let a navy be raised—let the [Pg 491] Government which expects obedience provide protection, and the constitution perishes!
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

These two lords were brave and worthy gentlemen, rich in goods and lands, and near both in heart and home.
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

From the vine-leaves of that archivolt, though there is no direct imitation of nature in them, but on the contrary a studious subjection to architectural purpose more particularly to be noticed hereafter, we may yet receive the same kind of pleasure which we have in seeing true vine-leaves and wreathed branches traced upon golden light; its stars upon their azure ground ought to make us remember, as its builder remembered, the stars that ascend and fall in the great arch of the sky: and I believe that stars, and boughs, and leaves, and bright colors are everlastingly lovely, and to be by all men beloved; and, moreover, that church walls grimly seared with squared lines, are not better nor nobler things than these.
— from Stones of Venice [introductions] by John Ruskin

As he rode away he was desperately tempted to destroy the letter, and never breathe a word of its existence.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

Obj. 2: Further, nothing can be measured save by something of its own genus; as length is measured by length and numbers by number.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

As for the French, he trusted them even less, and never believed, as long as he remained in France, that they were prepared for self-government.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard