So are the captains, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish of "Henry V.," and Malvolio especially later; though Shakespeare never employed the method of humours for an important personage.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

As sure as I'm standing here, something is going to happen this afternoon which will make everybody laugh themselves sick at me.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

When we reached home, Bielokurov sat down on the divan and frowned and brooded, and I began to pace up and down the hall, feeling a sweet stirring in me, exactly like the stirring of love.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta; gia` ogne stella cade che saliva quand'io mi mossi, e 'l troppo star si vieta>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The I which knows them cannot itself be an [Pg 401] aggregate, neither for psychological purposes need it be considered to be an unchanging metaphysical entity like the Soul, or a principle like the pure Ego, viewed as 'out of time.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But I had the courage to hold my tongue, to gnaw at my entrails like the Spartan boy.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;—it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.—Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

The suns and universe of suns about us, may be only vacant points in the depths of an all-pervading entity in which even thyself dost exist as a momentary echo, linked to substances ponderous, destined to fade away in the inter-stellar expanse outside, where disturbances disappear, and matter and gravitation together die; where all is pure, quiescent, peaceful and dark.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

We might even like to succumb once or twice, or three or four times or oftener, just to show that we are one of those supermen who can "take it or leave it alone."
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

He thus writes to his cousin, her sister: Indeed, all my Europe letters this season have brought me such painful news that I almost dread receiving another.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

Tie it to military efficiency, letting the services discover, under guidance from a White House committee, the inefficiency of segregation.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

But it is not decent to exult unrestrainedly in melancholy events, lest the subjects should seem to be governed by tyranny, not by authority.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

"I want Dollie's dress made exactly like this," she said, hanging it open over the back of a chair for Golden's inspection.
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mr. Parry, feeling that my claim involves fraud, reads extracts from my early letters, to show that I was very urgent to publish ‘City Lights,’ that I expressed the greatest confidence in them, and that, in short, I came to them in such a way as, to use his own language, would have almost held out a temptation to defraud me.
— from A Battle of the Books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers To the first for doctrine, to the second for reproof, to both for correction and for instruction in righteousness by Gail Hamilton

"Beginning life anew, and leaving all old troubles behind us—well, if it must end like this, so much the better, Mattie!"
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson

But Mr. Edward Langworthy, the son, introduced himself, and asked for our luggage, when we rather shamefacedly confessed that we had only our two valises.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

Cheered and fortified with the conviction that one bosom in the company, and that in which he most eagerly longed to secure an interest, sympathised with his distress, he felt strong to endure whatever was to follow, and shrunk not from the stern still smile with which, one by one, the meeting regarded him, as, gliding to their several places of repose, they indulged themselves at parting with a look of triumph on one whom they considered as their captive enemy.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott