The bitterness, the misery, the curses, the tears hidden from all the world, for you are not a Marfa Petrovna.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But before you are through with that,” he nodded at my papers, “you will say I've brought you something fresh.”
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

He means (3) to say that the creation of the world is not a material process of working with legs and arms, but ideal and intellectual; according to his own fine expression, 'the thought of God made the God that was to be.'
— from Timaeus by Plato

Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

All sorts of new disorders easily draw, from this primitive and ever-flowing fountain, examples and precedents to trouble and discompose our government: we read in our very laws, made for the remedy of this first evil, the beginning and pretences of all sorts of wicked enterprises; and that befalls us, which Thucydides said of the civil wars of his time, that, in favour of public vices, they gave them new and more plausible names for their excuse, sweetening and disguising their true titles; which must be done, forsooth, to reform our conscience and belief: “Honesta oratio est;” [“Fine words truly.”—Ter.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nervous motions on horseback are not only ungraceful, but dangerous, as your horse will not make any allowance for the delicacy of your nerves, and may prove his objections to a jerking hand, or a twitching rein, in a most decided and disagreeable manner.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Now Aunt March possessed in perfection the art of rousing the spirit of opposition in the gentlest people, and enjoyed doing it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

(3) The addition in some cases—most often in Flanders and in England, which were both Roman [p358] provinces—of the suffix ham to the patronymic local name, although most probably a later addition, and possibly the result of conquest, at least reminds us of the possibility already noticed that even a villa or ham or manor, with a servile population upon it, might be the possession of a tribal household, who thus might be the lords of a manorial estate.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

Even a remove to another quarter did not answer my purpose, and I finished my notes after reaching the rear.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

Athelstan, under-king of Kent, 73 ; not identical with St. Neot, 6 ; probably Alfred’s uncle, 6 ; fights a naval battle, 120 n. Athelstan, Mercian priest, chaplain to Alfred, 136 .
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer

"The Garden of Nuts," and "The Golden Apples," are theological questions; and "The Pomegranate with its Flower," is a treatise of ceremonies, not any more practised.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

“If the young men of Ireland have trusted me,” said Parnell at Kilkenny, December, 1890, “it is because they know that I am not a mere Parliamentarian.”
— from The Issue: The Case for Sinn Fein by Lector

This refusal of Meredith's not only hurt me, but almost destroyed my hope, though it did not alter my purpose.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

A dark red toque with a grey bird’s wing; a wine-coloured zouave jacket and skirt, black braided; a dark blue bodice; a plain gold brooch (the first trinket I had given her—the occasion of her first clasp of arms around my neck) fastening her collar; a silver fox necklet and muff; patent leather shoes and brown suede gloves.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

It was never his habit to intrust others with (p. 044) duties and labors which he could perform himself, and he felt that his empire needed a more powerful protector than his infirmities permitted him to be.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Salted hides need a more prolonged soaking than fresh hides, as it is essential that all trace of salt be removed before the next process, otherwise the finished leather may be flat, and poor in quality.
— from Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product by K. J. Adcock