She had not been with us more than a year (I remember her being newly out of mourning at the time it struck me), when I observed to myself one evening that she had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The consideration of this made Mr. Locke say, with great justice, that a government of this kind Page 58 was worse than anarchy: indeed it is so abhorred and detested by all who live under forms that have a milder appearance, that there is scarcely a rational man in Europe that would not prefer death to Asiatic despotism.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I did not revive to doubtful convalescence; health spent her treasures upon me; as the tree in spring may feel from its wrinkled limbs the fresh green break forth, and the living sap rise and circulate, so did the renewed vigour of my frame, the cheerful current of my blood, the new-born elasticity of my limbs, influence my mind to cheerful endurance and pleasurable thoughts.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So long as we are conversant with the sensible qualities of things, hardly any more than the imagi Page 118 nation seems concerned; little more also than the imagination seems concerned when the passions are represented, because by the force of natural sympathy they are felt in all men without any recourse to reasoning, and their justness recognized in every breast.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is recorded, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, that “the Nattamāns say they originally settled in South Arcot, and then spread to Tanjore and Trichinopoly, and finally to Madura, and this theory is supported by the fact that they have fifteen exogamous sub-divisions called kānis or fields, which are all named after villages ( e.g. , Ariyalūr, Puththūr) in the first three of these districts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“ The fable relates, that Perseus was dispatched from the east, by Pallas, to cut off Medusa’s head, who had committed great ravage upon the people of the west; for this Medusa was so dire a monster, as to turn into stone all those who but looked upon her.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Every year it is carried forth from the chamber, at those times, I say, the Egyptians beat themselves for that god whom I will not name upon occasion of such a matter; at these times, I say, they also carry forth the cow to the light of day, for they say that she asked of her father Mykerinos, when she was dying, that she might look upon the sun once in the year.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

"Poor Marianne!" said her brother to Colonel Brandon, in a low voice, as soon as he could secure his attention,— "She has not such good health as her sister,—she is very nervous,—she has not Elinor's constitution;—and one must allow that there is something very trying to a young woman who HAS BEEN a beauty in the loss of her personal attractions.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Could it not be this, that the hypothesis which gives the intellect the greatest feeling of power and security, is preferred, valued, and marked as true —The intellect sets its freest and strongest faculty and ability as the criterion of what is most valuable, consequently of what is true....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I start in the morning to comply with the order, but I shall say very distinctly on my arrival there that I shall accept no appointment which will require me to make that city my headquarters.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

had I foreseen the nature of the work before me, and the troubles in store, my enthusiasm would not have been quite so great.
— from Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

"Ed" Howe, the editor of "The Atchison Globe," the paper which gets closer to the people than any other in America, evidently admires this theory of editing, for he confesses, "When perplexities beset me and troubles thicken, I stop and ask myself what would Edward Bok have me do, and then all my difficulties dissolve." Despite the sinister influences that tend to limit the freedom of editors and taint the news, the efficiency, accuracy, and ability of the American press were never on such a high plane of excellence as they are to-day.
— from Commercialism and Journalism by Hamilton Holt

One-sixth of the printed laws of the first session attest their modest attention to this incidental squatters' dowry.
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

For, mark me, Mother, as the tree is, so is the fruit.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. II. by Susanna Moodie

There are many allusions to this in Shakespeare.
— from Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time by W. J. (William James) Rolfe

But, as Britons at home persist in despising all other fungi but the field mushroom and the truffle, I suppose they will hardly take to such food here, dainty though it is.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

We might add, though, that in some cases the sequelæ of the complaint aged the subject by ten or twenty years.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 26, 1895 by Various