The one are straining every nerve, and outraging common sense, to be thought genteel; the others have no other object or idea in their heads than not to be thought vulgar.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

“No; because when I come in from the forge of a night, any one can see me turning to at it.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

n action of concealing s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I also, and the noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh, speak only the language, and practise only the manners, of our fathers.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I was helping to decide whether any of the new assortment of coloured silks which they had just received at the shop would do to match a grey and black mousseline-delaine that wanted a new breadth, when a tall, thin, Don Quixote-looking old man p. 47 came into the shop for some woollen gloves.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Dissimilitude intrudes itself of itself in our works; no art can arrive at perfect similitude: neither Perrozet nor any other can so carefully polish and blanch the backs of his cards that some gamesters will not distinguish them by seeing them only shuffled by another.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Everybody regarded the change of Government as final; that Louisiana, by a mere declaration, was a free and independent State, and could enter into any new alliance or combination she chose.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

At a whispered word from Dr. Radcliffe, Tenison, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, successor to the saintly Tillotson, so beloved by the King and Queen, approached the bed.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

38, 39, "For I am persuaded, that neither death , nor life , nor angels , nor principalities , nor powers , nor things present , nor things to come , nor height , nor depth , nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord ."
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

"Over the high altar is a picture—full-length—of St. Benedict, which Mabillon ('Iter Italicum') considers a genuine contemporary portrait—though Nibby and other critics suppose it less ancient.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

The little fellows who accompanied them, up to the age of twelve, usually ran about with no article of clothing save their little breech-clouts and white cotton shirts.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

“No; I can keep my own secret, and I will turn over a new leaf now, and old Crampton shall rule it for me.
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

“Then how Schneider told me about my childish nature, and—” “Oh, curse Schneider and his dirty opinions!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The family lived chiefly by hunting and fishing, had nothing to do with their neighbors, and of course sank lower and lower, and grew poorer and poorer, though to their credit it must be said that they had never yet been known to steal.
— from Flaxie Growing Up Flaxie Frizzle Stories by Sophie May