Tampoco me 15 entenderías si te dijera que deseaba alcanzar mi objeto sin escándalo, sin ofender a tu padre, sin ofenderte a ti, sin dar que hablar a las gentes con una negativa explícita....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Why have men of superior endowments submitted to such degradation?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The recollection of what had been done for William was always the most powerful disturber of every decision against Mr. Crawford; and she sat thinking deeply of it till Mary, who had been first watching her complacently, and then musing on something else, suddenly called her attention by saying: “I should like to sit talking with you here all day, but we must not forget the ladies below, and so good-bye, my dear, my amiable, my excellent Fanny, for though we shall nominally part in the breakfast-parlour, I must take leave of you here.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

For tea they have cold meat, or something else substantial.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

“Dead, however, he was, or else translated,” said the younger peasant; “for I heard the Monks of Saint Edmund's singing the death's hymn for him; and, moreover, there was a rich death-meal and dole at the Castle of Coningsburgh, as right was; and thither had I gone, but for Mabel Parkins, who—” “Ay, dead was Athelstane,” said the old man, shaking his head, “and the more pity it was, for the old Saxon blood—”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

To imagine such a power would demand less expense to the imagination than the construction of this complex notion of a double, made of some etherial, semi-invisible substance, and of which direct experience offers no example.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

They are patriotic and public-spirited; they have not so many, or so enslaving, selfish interests.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

We had, however, in the meantime a great many other successful enterprises, some of one kind, some of another, and were never so much as in danger of being apprehended; but my companion Will, who was now grown a man, and encouraged by these advantages, fell into quite another vein of wickedness, getting acquainted with a wretched gang of fellows that turned their hands to everything that was vile.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

While most of his first companions were men of such extreme simplicity of mind that the world has been rather in an amused than admiring attitude with regard to them, there can be no doubt that this simplicity was of itself an index not only of their genuine sincerity of heart, but of a greatness of mind that set them above the ordinary run of mankind and made them live poetry when they did not write it.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

With a full Report of the Proceedings of the Archæological Institute at Bristol and at Wells; Historical Chronicle; and O BITUARY , including Memoirs of Sir Edward Stracey, Dr. Lingard, Sir Francis Simpkinson, Q.C., Mr. Rogers, Q.C., Mrs. Harriet Lee, and other eminent persons recently deceased.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

We build larger telescopes each year only to behold additional millions of stars, each star, possibly, the larger on account of our being able to see it at all.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

Now, then, Since nature of mind is movable so much, Consist it must of seeds exceeding small And smooth and round.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Several distinguished men of science examined specimens of it.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Conscious of her own mental superiority over that of all her female companions, a superiority which in such moments is even of more account than bodily force, after a few minutes of silent endurance, she checked her mule, and called upon Sigismund to examine the condition of his sister and her maids, neither of whom had now spoken for some time.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

Stem at first mealy or scaly, equal, solid, white, bulbous, the bulb scaly or mealy, narrowed below into a root-like prolongation.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine