She did not reply at once, but after two or three insistent demands told the reason thus: “I am a low class woman; you are mistaken in thinking highly of me, or counting me of worth.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

I write for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind; over whom I may, without breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority, from the advantages I received by conversing so long among the most accomplished Houyhnhnms .
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

After ten minutes of walking, we were in five meters of water, and the terrain had become almost flat.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It believed in a typical or pattern mind, after the manner of which all minds were created, and from whom they differed only by rare accidents.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He never, it is true, attained to nearly the full measure of what might have been his faculties.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To a man of western mode of thinking, the most astonishing thing is that this law was esoteric.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

[1197] Giraldus Cambrensis gives instance in a monk of Wales that was so deluded.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But I trow that 100,000 men of arms might not pass those deserts safely, for the great multitude of wild beasts and of great dragons and of great serpents
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Hence much of what is related of the parts towards the west is discredited.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

53 We see in them the manifold grades and modes of the manifestation of will, which in all beings of one and the same grade, wills always in the same way, which objectifies itself as life, as existence in such endless variety, and such different forms, which are all adaptations to the different external circumstances, and may be compared to many variations on the same theme.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Intelligence of this mistaken opinion was transmitted to the king, who thereupon had the audacity to request that he might be honoured with the presence of some Portuguese of rank and consequence in his capital, to ratify in a becoming manner the articles that had been drawn up; as he ardently wished to see that nation trafficking freely in his dominions.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

With regard to the London standard of morality, dear Hal, I do not think it lower, but probably a little higher upon the whole than that of the society of other great capitals: the reasons why this highly civilized atmosphere must be also so highly mephitic are obvious enough, and therefore as no alteration is probable, or perhaps possible in that respect, I am not altogether sorry to think that I shall live in a denser intellectual but clearer moral atmosphere in my "other world."
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

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— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

He was a new appointee, fearful lest the balance of Libra on his unpracticed fingertip should incline too much one way or the other.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

The Minister of War laid his arm across the young man's shoulders.
— from Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

Wilton, for his part, proceeded on his way, musing over what had occurred.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He lost no time in equipping a fleet for these purposes, and his efforts were so well seconded by the zeal and activity of the provinces and cities, many of which taxed themselves to supply iron, timber, cloth for sails, corn, &c. that, in forty days after the timber was felled, Scipio had a fleet of thirty new galleys.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

It must be added as a mark of the quality of the material of which the French Army is composed that punishments and rewards alike are usually accepted in equally good part.
— from The French Army from Within by Anonymous

You are, of course, while in the school, under the same moral obligations which rest upon you elsewhere.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott