The honor which men confer is not good honor.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

I was elated with this beginning, as I knew enough of the world already to conclude, that so much ceremony is not generally used at the reception of a footman.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The association of taboo on economic goods with mourning is a wide-spread feature of the Melanesian customs in New Guinea.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"My—approaching—marriage!" cried Iris, now genuinely amazed.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

The oldest European toy manufacturing center is Nuremberg, Germany.
— from Toy Craft by Leon H. Baxter

My cold is near gone.
— from The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount

We must take exception therefore to the remark of Schurman, Belief in God, 231— “ The first gods were probably non-moral beings, ” for Schurman himself had just said: “ A God without moral character is no God at all. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Her ladyship might, without scruple, forfeit her reputation for integrity, honour and justice, if she chose, by refusing what he asked, and thus robbing Miss Watson; and that the world, seeing she was Lady Fanny still, might consider it no great matter; but the case was very different with his sister's friend, who as Lady Fanny justly observed, had neither friends, rank nor fortune to gloss over the calumny, or support her through right and wrong, and who it was possible might depend on her character for her subsistence.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

“Here’s where the map comes in now, gentlemen,” continued Griggs.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

"Nevertheless, though Miss Cardross may be 'no bonnie,' and too good to please your taste, I hope you will go often to the Manse in my absence, and write me word how they are, otherwise I shall hear little—the minister's letters are too voluminous to be frequent—and Miss Cardross is not given to much correspondence."
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“Mrs. Carstairs is not German.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

If her heart had jumped at the sharp accents of Miss Clara, it now grew still within her at the slow, awful enunciation of the Large Lady in black bombazine who reigned over the department of the First Reader, pointing her morals with a heavy forefinger, before which Emmy Lou’s eyes lowered with every aspect of conscious guilt.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin