But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One MS. of Nicetas Choniates also, in his annals of Manuel Comnenus (see Paris ed.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A movement of new compassion and old tenderness went through her like a great wave, and putting one hand on his which rested on the arm of the chair, and the other on his shoulder, she said, solemnly but kindly— "Look up, Nicholas."
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

That's very alluring to start with, for a man of no consequence and a beggar.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the four officials in the jury were, in fact, men of no consequence and of low rank.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bakunin had been in close touch with this action, he had followed the volunteers, and he now explained to me that however narrow might be the political views of Heubner (he belonged to the moderate Left of the Saxon Chamber), he was a man of noble character, at whose service he had immediately placed his own life.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I regard you in any case as a man of noble character and not without elements of magnanimity, though I don’t agree with all your convictions.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every truth which men of narrow capacity are in earnest about, is sure to be asserted, inculcated, and in many ways even acted on, as if no other truth existed in the world, or at all events none that could limit or qualify the first.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

He is eternally whispered with Intelligence of who are true or false to him in Matters of no Consequence, and he maintains twenty Friends to defend him against the Insinuations of one who would perhaps cheat him of an old Coat.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every man, whether married or not, could adopt children, under certain restrictions, and they passed entirely under paternal power.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

With these views growing upon him it was natural that, when the struggle came between the Presbyterian Parliament and the Independent Army, he had no hesitation in supporting the Army; nor is it surprising that such a man of no compromise as he had shown himself to be was ready to come forward, even before the deed was done, with a defence of the execution of Charles I.
— from Milton by John Cann Bailey

such making of new clothes and mending of old, to be worn on the journey!
— from Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe

And at this very moment our native citizens and adopted brethren, to a considerable number, are doomed to the most intolerable thraldom in the British navy by this degrading practice.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

. Hom ó ne, as Homacci ó ne. H o m o nẻa, concord, agreement.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Baron Moritz Ferdinand von Bissing, the German Military Governor-General of Belgium, who was largely responsible for the murder of Nurse Cavell and the chief instigator of the infamous Belgian deportations, after being granted a rest from his labours, is reported to have died "of overwork.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Tribes, and animal totems, 11 ; aborigines of, and soul, 31 ; myth of Nut common among aborigines of, 173 AMERICA-N, NORTH.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

[164] Governor Martin of North Carolina, already deeply disturbed in anticipation of the coming revolutionary cataclysm, thundered in what was generally regarded as a forcible-feeble proclamation (February 19, 1775) against "Richard Henderson and his Confederates" in their "daring, unjust and unwarrantable proceedings."
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

And now, farewell, sir knight; and if you cannot think of me as a man of nice conscience, acknowledge me at least as one of reason and of judgment.”
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott