Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

1. “Cavere” is a word of legal signification, meaning to give advice to a person by way of assistance or precaution, as a patron to his client.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

The peasant Miquelon, who had his little farm at the mountain’s base, whenever he passed made the sign of the cross and taught his little son Miquel to do the same, telling him that the great form was that of a pagan god, an enemy of the human race.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

It consisted of the chief Vitus Bering (his Russian name was Ivan Ivanovich Bering), Captains Spangberg and Chirikoff, eight lieutenants, sixteen mates, twelve physicians, seven priests, skippers, stewards, various apprentices, ship-carpenters, other workmen, soldiers and sailors,—in all about five hundred and seventy men.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Mr. Tulliver turned his eyes on the page again, and presently said: "Ah–Elizabeth Dodson–it's eighteen year since I married her––" "Come next Ladyday," said Mrs. Tulliver, going up to his side and looking at the page.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This is evidently the smallest share with which the tenant can content himself, without being a loser, and the landlord seldom means to leave him any more.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He recognised that such a feeling would be an insult even to a dog, but he was angry, not with himself but with Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, for arousing such a feeling, and he understood why lovers sometimes murder their mistresses.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Will the licence of the time excuse my sacrilegious boldness if I censure the dialogism of Plato himself as also dull and heavy, too much stifling the matter, and lament so much time lost by a man, who had so many better things to say, in so many long and needless preliminary interlocutions?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But it is quite certain that although the odds against losing so many times together be very great, namely, 32,767 to 1,—yet the POSSIBILITY of it is not destroyed by the greatness of the odds, there being ONE chance in 32,768 that it may so happen; therefore it follows that the succession of lost games was still possible, without the intervention of bad luck.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

The berry's purple shine, Grape-like and lustrous, scattered 'mid the waste: The sprinkled heath-flower, healthful, golden-paced: The patriarchal pine: [19] The memories of all Telling of pleasures rare, and jocund ease, In deep-toned joyousness, yea, more than these, The sunbeam does recall: The hope of life above; Rich buds of promise springing everywhere; The grace-blest gifts that come without our care, From all-providing Love!
— from Poems by William Anderson

Capitaux de la Saint Michel tenus à Sainte Anne en la Paroisse du Sarazin,
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

Broken sentences were wafted like strange music to Gordon's ears.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

This statement cannot be said to clear up the matter entirely; but it is fairly evident that, when a woman says that she finds pleasure in the pain inflicted by a lover, she means that under the special circumstances she finds pleasure in treatment which would at other times be felt as pain, or else that the slight real pain experienced is so quickly followed by overwhelming pleasure that in memory the pain itself seems to have been pleasure and may even be regarded as the symbol of pleasure.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

In a country like this, where a partner in excessive hard labour is the chief motive for the union, and the softer endearments of a conjugal life are only considered as a secondary object, there seems to be great propriety in such a choice; but if all the men were of this way of thinking, what would become of the greater part of the women, who in general are but of low stature, and many of them of a most delicate make, though not of the exactest proportion, or most beautiful mould? Take them in a body, the women are as destitute of real beauty as any nation I ever saw, though there are some few of them, when young, who are tolerable; but the care of a family, added to their constant hard labour, soon make the [129] most beautiful among them look old and wrinkled, even before they are thirty; and several of the more ordinary ones at that age are perfect antidotes to love and gallantry.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

a poor, harmless, inoffensive set of people, and their wanderings and ill-provided way of living seem more to ask for pity from us, than to fill our heads with thoughts that they would be hostile to us.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton