With one wild carnival of blood and passion came the message in his own plaintive cadences:— "Shout, O children!
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The accompanying consciousness, on the other hand, is something intimately felt by each man in his own person; it is a portion of crude and immediate experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Nature glitters most in her own plain, homely garb, and then gives the greatest lustre when she is unsullied from all artificial garnish.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

“But,” says the old man, “I have one piece of news to tell you, which perhaps may not be so acceptable to you as the rest; and that is, believing you were lost, and all the world believing so also, your partner and trustees did offer to account with me, in your name, for the first six or eight years’ profits, which I received.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Gentleman who has taken the Pains to make these Observations, is Mr. Atkins , a Surgeon, an ingenious Man in his own Profession, and one who is not ty’d down by any narrow Considerations from doing a Service to the Publick, and has been pleased generously to communicate them for the good of others.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

2. Tsze-lu said, 'Master, formerly I have heard you say, "When a man in his own person is guilty of doing evil, a superior man will not associate with him."
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

And what better means could she adopt, towards so virtuous and laudable an end, than proving to all men, in her own person, that his passion was the most rational and reasonable in the world, and just the very result, of all others, which discreet and thinking persons might have foreseen, from her incautiously displaying her matured charms, without reserve, under the very eye, as it were, of an ardent and too-susceptible man? ‘Ah!’ said Mrs. Nickleby, gravely shaking her head; ‘if Nicholas knew what his poor dear papa suffered before we were engaged, when I used to hate him, he would have a little more feeling.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Whilst my stupidity and awkwardness injured me in her opinion, persons whom she frequently saw and most loved, were far from being disposed to aid me in gaining what I had lost.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knox's conduct to Queen Mary, the harsh visits he used to make in her own palace, to reprove her there, have been much commented upon.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

bogus [Pg 9] corporations, selling the stock at par and putting the money into his own pocket, he could unfold his wings and fly off into the empyrean, leaving his stock and bond holders to mourn their loss?" "Excuse me, Hippopopolis," I put in, interrupting him fearlessly for the moment, "pray don't try to deceive me by any such statement as that.
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

I have carefully put the Master in His old place.
— from Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank Boreham

It was here alone that the traveller felt himself bound to take liberties with the original; for though the march of mind and the general augmentation of ideas, have made prolixity a common characteristic of each man in his own person, they have not made him more tolerant of it in another.
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

From this pile he counted out and handed a small portion to each of the other two men—and coolly stuffed the bulk of the money into his own pockets.
— from Pawned by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

sobs Ivy from her sofa, and Leslie takes her white hand a moment in his own, pressing it despairingly to his lips as he cries: "You must forgive me, Ivy, I did not know how well I loved you until I had lost you."
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Incredible that only that afternoon she had been playing tennis with Raoul Le Breton, as she might have played with any man in her own place in England.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

Thither too had come flights of Numidians and Moors in hopes of plunder; and Pompey's sons and Labienus had collected an army as numerous as that which had been defeated at Thapsus, and composed of materials far more dangerous and desperate.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude