Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.
— 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.

Thus it was that my loyalty was rewarded, and my sacrifice, in favour of my country, viewed!
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

dwelling-place, lodging, habitation, house, mansion , CP: village, town : in pl. entrenchments, camp, castle, fortress : street, lane : bay, creek .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“Were it certain that Lady Catherine would think so,” said Mr. Collins very gravely—“but I cannot imagine that her ladyship would at all disapprove of you.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Santa Clara makes clear vision; St. Lucy sounds like lucida, and is the saint of the blind; St. Mamertus is analogous to mamma, the feminine breast, and is the patron saint of nurses and nursing women.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Si minus molestiae circa ventriculum aut ventrem, in iis cerebrum primario afficitur, et curare oportet hunc affectum, per cibos flatus exortes, et bonae concoctionis, &c. raro cerebrum afficitur sine ventriculo.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Lebanon Junction..-Second Minnesota, Colonel Van Cleve.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There I spent another three years, following my commercial vocation and keeping up all along a pretty regular correspondence with Mr. Adler, to whose instruction I owed so much.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Vix ultius gentis, aetatis, ordinis, hominem invenies cujus felicitatem fortunae Metelli compares, Vol.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Riuerẻntiáre, to reuerence, to worship, to honour, to make curtzis vnto.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

There was my chum, Vorchik, he was on an expedition and was wounded just here in the chest.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"It's what you might call very strange behavior on the part of a hydrogen-line impulse we picked up while calibrating our receiver.
— from The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

A stupendous accentuation of the principal characteristics is by far the most decisive factor at work, and in consequence the minor characteristics vanish.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

such as be guiltie persons and robbers; hauing manie wiues, but yet breaking wedlocke; oftentimes swearing, and yet forswearing themselues; vowing, and for the more part lieng; warring, but mainteining ciuill & vniust warres; pursuing indéed théeues that are abroad in the countrie, and yet not onelie cherishing those that sit euen at table with them, but also highlie rewarding them: giuing almesse largelie, but on the other part heaping vp a mightie mount of sinnes; sitting in the seat of sentence, but seldome séeking the rule of righteous iudgement; despising the innocent and humble persons, and exalting so farre as in them lieth, euen vp to the heauens, most bloudie and proud murtherers, théeues and adulterers, yea the verie professed enimies of God; if he would so permit: kéeping manie in prison, whome they oppresse, in loding them with irons, through craft rather to serue their owne purpose, than for anie gilt of the persons so imprisoned: taking solemne oths before the altars, and shortlie after, despising the same altars as vile and filthie stones.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

One learns to estimate military courage very moderately, when one sees that the Roman Legions, precisely when they were mercenary, bad, slavish, and half freedmen, namely, under the Triumvirate, fought more courageously than ever.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

The minister and the alderman left immediately afterwards to attend a meeting, and when they were gone Mrs. Clayton Vernon said,— "Now we are all alone, Richard.
— from A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett

The San Giovannino, also in the Vanchettoni, is a more concrete version of childhood, but is by the same hand as its fellow.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

[138] Never did any Government pronounce against itself a more complete verdict of ignorance and incapacity.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

Lizzie came out, as this was said, through the little glass door, with a little muslin curtain veiling the lower panes, which opened into the room beyond.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant