To such as entertain the mistaken notion that politeness implies all give and little or no return, it is well to recall Coleridge's definition of a gentleman: "We feel the gentlemanly character present with us," he said, "whenever, under all circumstances of social intercourse, the trivial, not less than the important, through the whole detail of his manners and deportment, and with the ease of a habit, a person shows respect to others in such a way as at the same time implies, in his own feelings, and habitually, an assured anticipation of reciprocal respect from them to himself.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Eritrea (Italy) Massowah Abyssinian, m n The coffee is of the but the output is not an important trade factor.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

natural natural, adv. —mente ; m nature, temperament, the way one is made.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Write me how many notes there be In the new robin's ecstasy Among astonished boughs; How many trips the tortoise makes, How many cups the bee partakes, — The debauchee of dews!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

This is easily seen by merely noticing that the image is in the present, whereas what is remembered is known to be in the past.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

One Monday, near the time of our visit to St. Louis, the 'Globe-Democrat' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby it appeared that 119,448 St. Louis people attended the morning and evening church services the day before, and 23,102 children attended Sunday-school.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

This Decency of Behaviour is generally transgressed among all Orders of Men; nay, the very Women, tho' themselves created as it were for Ornament, are often very much mistaken in this ornamental Part of Life.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

why did Providence wink at the triumph of such consummate perfidy?” The physician, having listened with complacency to this effusion, replied, “It is my profession, it is my nature to sympathise with the afflicted.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Thus they went along towards the gate. {394} Now you must note that the city stood upon a mighty hill, but the Pilgrims went up that hill with ease, because they had these two men to lead them up by the arms; also, they had left their mortal garments behind them in the river, for though they went in with them, they came out without them.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Whistling to Chestnut that he might come to me, I turned to help Mistress Nancy to get on her horse; but she would have nought to do with me.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

If you want to carry your ticket, you must nominate the other candidate from the steerage.
— from Northern Lands; Or, Young America in Russia and Prussia by Oliver Optic

He managed, nevertheless, "to hold him off for some time;" but at last Thompson got the "crotch hoist" on him, and, although Lincoln attempted with all his wonderful strength to break the hold by "sliding" away, a few moments decided his fate: he was fairly thrown.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

'I wanted to be here to dinner, but these post-horses are miserable nags; they went like snails.'
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

Theirs is a language secret and unknown but to the souls communicating, and unmeaning and unnoticeable to mortals, until made neophytes to the creed of Cupid.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

It isn't my nature to fear."
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is more natural to suppose that the Lord began with St. Peter.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

‘Kate Kearney cannot have two husbands, and I’ve made her promise to marry my nephew this morning.’ ‘What, without any leave of mine?’ exclaimed Kearney.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

It lays two eggs, which, in Santa Cruz, were found by Mr. Newton to be perfectly white, and not of a drab hue, as stated by Mr. Gosse.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway