He trod about the floor while putting by his lantern and throwing aside his hat and sack, so as to merge the marks of Dunstan's feet on the sand in the marks of his own nailed boots.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Amra awaited not his father’s arrival, but adding his mother’s resentments to a feeling of patriotic indignation at the abasement his indolence produced, fled to Bundi, took up arms, and, joined by many of his own nobles and Hara auxiliaries, returned at the head of ten thousand men.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The legislator ought to be whole and perfect, and not half a man only; he ought not to let the female sex live softly and waste money and have no order of life, while he takes the utmost care of the male sex, and leaves half of life only blest with happiness, when he might have made the whole state happy.
— from Laws by Plato

As long as his time had been solely occupied with his books and his parishioners, as at Helstone, she had appeared to care little whether she saw much of him or not; but now that he looked eagerly forward to each renewal of his intercourse with Mr. Thornton, she seemed hurt and annoyed, as if he were slighting her companionship for the first time.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And her hands on him seemed to reveal to him the mould of his own nakedness, he was passionately lovely to himself.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

No one has a mind of his own nowadays.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, after the king was departed, Judas was not idle; for as many of his own nation came to him, so did he gather those that had escaped out of the battle together, and gave battle again to Antiochus's generals at a village called Adasa; and being too hard for his enemies in the battle, and killing a great number of them, he was at last himself slain also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Then followed [pg 176] accusations of the envious spirits against himself, the defence of the good spirits, and a fuller vision of the heavenly hosts; as also of holy men of his own nation, who, as he had learnt, had worthily held the office of priesthood in old times, and who were known to fame; from whom he heard many things very salutary to himself, and to all others that would listen to them.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He undertook to have my linen washed by the keeper; I would not have dared to give it myself, and he said that he had nothing to fear, as everybody was well aware that the monks of his order never wear any kind of linen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Yet in spite of his culture and the inheritance of centuries of knowledge, the voodoo message of his old nurse shrouded his spirit in deeper gloom.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

I warrant she will make much of her old nurse.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

After placing him behind Mr. Mortimer on his horse he disappeared in the woods and presently returned, mounted on his own nag, and led the way toward the clearing.
— from Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune by Harry Castlemon

The heavens laugh, the earth exults, all things are full of milk, of honey, of nectar!
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

An occasional smile discovered his enlightenment; and, at the breaking up, I really think his impression was, that we were a pleasant, though not very comprehensible race, possessing at a dinner-table much more good-fellowship than special-pleading; and that he would have a good many of his old notions to get rid of before he could completely cotton to so dissimilar a
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

While seated in the back of Colonel Midas's box at the Metropolitan Opera House one night, listening to the dreamy numbers of "La Bohème," utterly unobserved, of course, by any of the other occupants of the box, thanks to his magic cloak, Jack overheard Colonel Midas engaged in a strenuous conversation with one of his male relatives, who had asked the eminent financier for some kind of a tip that would make a rich man of him.
— from Jack and the Check Book by John Kendrick Bangs

Magnanimity of Henry of Navarre.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

With the possible exceptions of Lowestoft and Bristol, Plymouth stands alone as the only place in England at which a manufactory of hard, or natural, porcelain ever existed ( Fig. 343 ).
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

You know it isn’t often now that the sons of noble families take orders; the priests are mostly of humble origin; not that they’re necessarily the worse for that; the patricians used to be just as bad in another way.”
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells