Such a fine, spirited fellow is like enough to have 'em.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est —To have earned the goodwill of the great is not the least of merits.
— 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.

Poor Jones was rather a spectator of this elegant scene, than an actor in it; for though, in the short interval before the peer's arrival, Lady Bellaston first, and afterwards Mrs Fitzpatrick, had addressed some of their discourse to him; yet no sooner was the noble lord entered, than he engrossed the whole attention of the two ladies to himself; and as he took no more notice of Jones than if no such person had been present, unless by now and then staring at him, the ladies followed his example.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

His literary taste, condensed into the "Golden Treasury," helped Adams to more literary education than he ever got from any taste of his own.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she longed.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This anniversary had fallen on a Sunday, at a season of thick fog and general outward gloom; but he had brought her his customary offering, having known her now long enough to have established a hundred small traditions.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Sacada la bandera española de la sala de armas donde se hallaba rendida y prisionera, fué llevada en triunfo hasta el baluarte de Casas-Matas, donde debía ser enarbolada primeramente, afirmándola
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

He does not expect to be enchanted by it; a profound instinct tells him that Sir Thomas Browne is "not in his line"; and in the result he is even less enchanted than he expected to be.
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

Kep showed that letter to McTavish, and at the postscript he laughed enough to have exploded a torpedo.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

The sound and measure were a little ease to her excitement.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Mrs Kingsworth was writing a note, and Katharine, as she came in and stood behind her recalled the day when she had vehemently entreated for a little pleasure, a little amusement, a little widening in her narrow life—life looked large enough to her eyes now.
— from Kingsworth; or, The Aim of a Life by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

All their fickleness, their injustice, even the atrocious calumnies they admitted and propagated against me, could not wean my attachment from beings, a great portion of whom, but for my interference, would, I believed, long ere this have expired of hunger.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

As the visitor leaves by [336] the little steamer to remount the Dart, and looks at the lovely estuary, the hills embowered in trees, the picturesque old town—he feels, perhaps, like myself, as if he had left his heart there.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Vagrancy in that behalf, if conceded, is certainly a very strong argument at this day, that the power does not reside in the constitution at all, as if the fact were otherwise, the period of eighty-five years which has elapsed since the constitution was adopted is surely long enough to have enabled its advocates to discover its locality and to be able to point out its home to those whose researches have been less successful and whose conscientious convictions lead them to the conclusion that, as applied to the constitution, it is a myth without a habitation or a name.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

He learned, early, that his eyes were meant for seeing, and he not only saw everything, but he remembered and reflected; showing signs already of that bent which gave warrant, in later life, for Boileau's epithet, "Molière the Contemplator."
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin