But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Does not, at this hour, a new Polignac, first-born of these Two, sit reflective in the Castle of Ham; ( A.D. 1835. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Yet when I went with the army which I now have to the relief of Nisaea, the Athenians did not venture to engage me although in greater force than I; and it is not likely they will ever send across sea against you an army as numerous as they had at Nisaea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Dim, flattened, constrained by their confinement, they had never appealed to her as now, when they wandered in the still air with a stark quality like that of nudity.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE HAWK A Nightingale was sitting on a bough of an oak and singing, as her custom was.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

He was a tall, fair, silly youth; well enough made, with an unmeaning face, and a mind of the same description, speaking always like the beau in a comedy, and mingling the manners and customs of his former situation with a long history of his gallantry and success; naming, according to his account, not above half the marchionesses who had favored him and pretending never to have dressed the head of a pretty woman, without having likewise decorated her husband’s; vain, foolish, ignorant and insolent; such was the worthy substitute taken in my absence, and the companion offered me on my return!
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What am I to say now about the hair and nails?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I never appeal to him, and never shall appeal to him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Pat was nowhere around the hotel and nobody seemed to know where he had gone.
— from The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun

Sometimes as she came through the wood she would see them busy among the roots of the trees, setting their houses in order, or bartering and trading in their fairy markets; or on moonlight nights she would look out and see them at play among the flowers in her garden; or she would pass them dancing in fairy rings in the pastures or meadow lands, but she never told a soul of what she saw, nor tried to speak to the wee folk, and they were so busy about their own affairs that they paid no attention to her and never guessed she could see them.
— from Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle

Many of them were now about the houses, and none offered to resist our boats landing, but on the contrary were so amicable that one man brought 10 or 12 coconuts, left them on the shore after he had showed them to our men, and went out of sight.
— from A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 by William Dampier

I must say, though, that I was swimmy in my head and now and then had a noise as of the sea in my ears, so I might not have heard it.
— from The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad

The ghent division then advanced to Hazebrouch, in [Pg 355] the country of Alleu, where they destroyed the mill of d'Hazebourch, because he had, as they said, led on the Flemings ungallantly when they were lately defeated by the English near to Gravelines; but he excused himself by declaring, they would not attend to his advice, nor obey his orders.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 07 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

Thus, in these first English settlements, the deliberate encouragement of varieties of type was from the outset a distinguishing note, and the home authorities neither desired nor attempted to impose a strict uniformity with the rules and methods existing in England.
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir

Amateur Freemasons are no advantage to humanity, and no credit to our society.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

he charge of ten new regiments of foot, over and above the thirty-four thousand two hundred and sixty-three land soldiers before ordered to be raised; and a sum of ninety-one thousand nine hundred and nineteen pounds, ten shillings, was voted for these additional forces; upon another estimate presented a little after by the same lord, and founded upon the same reasons, for raising, for the further defence of the kingdom, eleven troops of light dragoons, forty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-eight pounds, eleven shillings and threepence, were voted for the ensuing year; together with eighty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight pounds, sixteen shillings, for a regiment of foot to be raised in North America; two hundred and ninety-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-four pounds, seventeen shillings and tenpence halfpenny, for the maintenance of our forces already established in our American colonies; and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and fifteen pounds, six shillings, for six regiments of foot from Ireland, to serve in North America and the East Indies.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A thick, squat nose is the sensual-sympathetic nose, and the high, arched nose the sensual voluntary nose, having the curve of repudiation, as when we turn up our nose from a bad smell, but also the proud curve of haughtiness and subjective authority.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence