Meanwhile, the Countess, reflecting, with regret, upon the gay parties she had left at Paris, surveyed, with disgust, what she thought the gloomy woods and solitary wildness of the scene; and, shrinking from the prospect of being shut up in an old castle, was prepared to meet every object with displeasure.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Now, as her objection was nothing but her very great dislike of Mrs. Elton, of which Mr. Weston must already be perfectly aware, it was not worth bringing forward again:—it could not be done without a reproof to him, which would be giving pain to his wife; and she found herself therefore obliged to consent to an arrangement which she would have done a great deal to avoid; an arrangement which would probably expose her even to the degradation of being said to be of Mrs. Elton's party!
— from Emma by Jane Austen

And the Stagirite had many friends, the most eminent of whom was Theophrastus, whom we must proceed to speak of.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And Sítá, Ráma's darling wife, Loved even as he loved his life, Whom happy marks combined to bless, A miracle of loveliness, Of Janak's royal lineage sprung, Most excellent of women, clung To her dear lord, like Rohiṇí Rejoicing with the Moon to be.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The example may encourage others who are only afraid to begin.” Weighing these reasons, Ibarra realized the situation and saw that with all the old man’s pessimism there was a great deal of truth in what he said.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I did not try to console her, for she had not grief; she wept as tender souls, and women, more especially, often will.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These shell discs can be, and often are, used in the make-up of the various classes of the more elaborate ornaments, worn on festive occasions only.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

M. Deleuze, in his critical history of Animal Magnetism , attempts to prove that this fanatical frenzy was produced by magnetism, and that these mad enthusiasts magnetised each other without being aware of it.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

And first, I must explain of whom I speak and what sort of natures these are who are to be philosophers and rulers.
— from The Republic by Plato

This strange battle was like a duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and still resisting, is expending all his blood.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I must die, yet my fear chills me; I pause and shudder and then for months I endure my excess of wretchedness.
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The men, except one who stood guard outside in the shadow of the house, were asleep in the next room.
— from The Story of Tonty by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

You can easily appreciate the efforts made to silence not only my Sunday preaching, but also the magnificent eloquence of Wendell Phillips; yes, to choke all generous speech, in order that kidnappers might pursue their vocation with none to molest or make them afraid.
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

The clouds are all in motion, crossing and meeting each other, while along the face of the nimbus, or storm-cloud, is a heavy gray pall of vapor.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

As soon as we got into the street, my companion began to expostulate with me, telling me that it was the height of folly not to make every one who signed his name subscribe something, as Mr. Clark had done, towards defraying our expenses.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

There was also opposition on general principles from the internationalists of the Left, the most extreme of whom would as soon see a Russian or a Frenchman in the President's chair as a German.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

The falling of a tea-cup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
— from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt

He seemed to select his words elaborately and by this monstrous effort of will to compel his partially paralyzed tongue to utter them.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

Lillian Gale's absolute calmness in the face of her husband's wayward affections was unique in my experience of women.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison