Such conduct made them of course most exceedingly laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly to provoke them.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

But in portraying mediaeval European lords and barons, the arrogant port, so dear to the inmost human heart, (pride! pride!
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“But oh what banquet wert thou to the taste, 445 Being nurse and feeder of the other four; Would they not wish the feast might ever last, And bid suspicion double-lock the door, Lest jealousy, that sour unwelcome guest, Should by his stealing in disturb the feast?”
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Of lion's might, eyed like a bull, A prince so brave and beautiful, Thou hast with wicked hate pursued, Like sea-born tribes who eat their brood.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

52 Causles mine enemy, Like a bird chac'd me.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

She sickened, in short, at the sight of so much extravagance, like Abyssinian Bruce, when he saw the luckless minstrels of Gondar hacked to pieces by the order of [Pg 179]
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

"Your father and my mother enjoy looking at books more than anything else," she said pleasantly, as we made our reluctant way back; "but I know that young people like to be where there are life and gaiety,—and you haven't even had a cup of chocolate.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

That made everybody laugh, and brought us back to business; but in a few minutes we were just as bad again.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

Now, ask yourself, and answer candidly, if those black masses of foliage, in which scarcely any form is seen but the outline, be a true representation of trees under noonday sunlight, sloping from the left, bringing out, as it necessarily would do, their masses into golden green, and marking every leaf and bough with sharp shadow and sparkling light.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

But one so innocent and unsuspecting as Mary—one with so much natural goodness of character—is most easily led away by the specious and designing, who can easily obscure their minds, and take from them their own freedom of action.
— from Finger Posts on the Way of Life by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

It was doubtless with the view of extending his influence into these quarters that the Persian monarch evacuated Lazica, and bound his country to maintain peace with Rome for the next half-century.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

The one shown ( fig. 50 ) was bought in 1888 by Mr. E. Lovett, at Boulogne-sur-mer.
— from Fire-making Apparatus in the U. S. National Museum by Walter Hough

Tulsa-Topeka aero-express makes emergency landing after being buffeted in encounter with vast flight of objects first described as brown birds, although no failures reported in airway's electronic anti-bird fences.
— from Bread Overhead by Fritz Leiber

As if he should say, seeing I have brought myself into such a miserable condition, that God will not regard me, that my exceeding loud and bitter cries will not be heard for myself; seeing I must not be admitted to have so much as one drop of cold water, nor the least help from the poorest saints.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan