"Human Justice" rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The natives express their ideas on this subject very characteristically: “The Dobu man is not good as we are.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Accordingly with the tithe of her wealth she caused to be made spits of iron of size large enough to pierce a whole ox, and many in number, going as far therein as her tithe allowed her, and she sent them to Delphi: these are even at the present time lying there, heaped all together behind the altar which the Chians dedicated, and just opposite to the cell of the temple.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Wherefore, the King saying to him one day that he wished to make him the first man in Naples, Giotto answered, [Pg 83] "And for that end am I lodged at the Porta Reale, in order to be the first in Naples.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

A man is not greatest as victor in war, nor inventor or explorer, nor even in science, or in his intellectual or artistic capacity, or exemplar in some vast benevolence.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

May I not go and see my friends?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And Mitka is not guilty and had no share in it.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

May I never grow an inch up or down if I don’t push your master into a dunghill, and I’ll give you the same medicine,
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

With regard to these Eastern Papuasians, Dr. A. C. Haddon first recognised that they came into the country as the result of a ‘Melanesian migration into New Guinea,’ and further, ‘That a single wandering would not account for certain puzzling facts.’ ” 2 The Papuo-Melanesians again can be divided into two groups, a Western and an Eastern one, which, following Dr. Seligman’s terminology, we shall call the Western Papuo-Melanesians and the Massim respectively.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He hinted that it would be well to make the best of things; but Cleopatra, with her royal memories, is not good at making the best of what she doesn't like.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The inference then is, that a profit which depends entirely on potatoes is uncertain in any year; and the particular case of Auchness, in which that profit is derived from moss, is not generally applicable to the country, [106] and cannot, therefore, be held up as an example to farmers.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though late; In code corroborating Calvin's creed And cynic tyrannies of honest kings; He comes, nor parlies; and the Town redeemed, Give thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds The grimy slur on the Republic's faith implied, Which holds that Man is naturally good, And—more—is Nature's Roman, never to be scourged.
— from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville

Pee-wee shouted, “A message is no good at all—even the most important message in the world is no good to the fellow that makes it——” Brent said, “Then he’s just wasting his time making it.
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

You know that it consists as much in not giving affronts as in not enduring them, though many who talk loudest about it seem to think otherwise.
— from The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens

There is a large class of young people who have reached that age where they find they have made a mistake in not getting a better education.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

This doctrine concerning the primo-constituent parts of the organic mass is now generally admitted or recognised, and I need not, therefore, add anything by way of apology for it or defence.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

"Perhaps there are no longer holy anchorites," I said to Mikhail, "because man is not going away from the world
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

There is no judge over me; I need give account to none for my actions.
— from A Thorny Path — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

Dr. Warren asserts that "the Dynamical theory of matter" is now generally accepted by "Anglo-Saxon naturalists ."
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker