Lastly, there was a short stout man with an iron-grey moustache and bushy eyebrows, who had been arrested in the middle of a sentence.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
— 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.

“I tell thee, Allan-a-Dale,” said the Hermit, “I saw Athelstane of Coningsburgh as much as bodily eyes ever saw a living man.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I have not been quite well for some days past, and poor old Jup annoys me, almost beyond endurance, by his well-meant attentions Would you believe it?—he had prepared a huge stick, the other day, with which to chastise me for giving him the slip, and spending the day, solus , among the hills on the main land.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Besides, she is often making a bitter enemy; perhaps she is exciting fierce and unamiable sentiments in one who otherwise might have been regarded as a mild and worthy individual.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

They turned prisoners into a real military asset by employing them in propaganda, and talked a whole staff of Nazi generals into the Free Germany movement.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

They might have cropt the myriad flower of May, And butt each other here, like brainless bulls, Dead for one heifer!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

555 And of the things which have been said of Homer the truest is that he alone of all poets has survived the fastidiousness of mankind, as being ever new and still at his acme as regards giving pleasure, and yet saying and proclaiming about himself, "I hate to spin out a plain tale over and over again," 556 he avoids and fears that satiety which lies in ambush for every narrative, and takes the hearer from one subject to another, and relieves by novelty the possibility of being surfeited.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

We went again upon the morrow, and Binney expressed himself as being glad to see us.
— from Sixpenny Pieces by A. Neil (Albert Neil) Lyons

363 Galen’s idea is that if reversal of the direction of flow can occur in the primae viae (in vomiting), it may also be expected to occur in the secundae viae or absorptive channels.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

—This grace, usually called gratia inspirationis , 53 may also be either mediate or immediate, according as pious affections and wholesome resolutions are produced in the soul by a preceding illumination of the intellect or directly by the Holy Ghost.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

The young Prince of Brunswick must also be escorted by an officer to Chalons-sur-Marne.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

When the poor instruments may feel so weak and the state of things so low, that there may not be the least probability of good arising, it is enough if they can only do the will of their great Master, and be enabled to say with the holy prophet, "I prophesied as the Lord commanded.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

Eleventh Census, in North American Review , vol. 153, p. 618) 2,500,000,000 Mortgaged indebtedness of business realty, street railways, manufactories and business enterprises (estimated from partial reports of 11th census) 5,000,000,000 Loans from 3,773 national banks (Statistical Abstract of the United States) 2,153,769,806 390 Loans from 5,579 State savings, stock and private banks and trust companies (Statistical Abstract of the United States) 2,201,764,292 These are figures on which something definite has been obtained; also the ratio of increase from 1880 to 1890, which was from $6,750,000,000 in 1880 to $19,000,000,000 in 1890.
— from Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican) Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date by W. I. (William I.) Hood

This inspection must also be extended to those places which are not expressly appointed for dwelling-houses, but which, nevertheless, must be included among the public houses, inasmuch as they serve for refuge to the women and girls who wander about the streets.”
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

A poor widow woman receives marked attention by each.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves