Coming near the bed, Juliette drops her skirt, and cleverly gets into the drawers, which were not a bad fit, but when she comes to the breeches there is some difficulty; the waistband is too narrow, and the only remedy is to rip it behind or to cut it, if necessary.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[170] Clothing is not a thing of rational import, but is regulated through needs that arise of themselves.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Fancy the idea of saying that the word lie is not a term of reproach in Japan!
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

I knew who she was and what she was, and what had led to our separation; but nevertheless, all this obstinately remained in the background, and all the passages of love between us, all our kisses, and above everything, her tears at that parting in her father’s house, thrust themselves upon me.
— from Mark Rutherford's Deliverance by William Hale White

It will be remembered, that, in the course of our argument there, we were brought to the conclusion, that Beauty was the Idea of a certain physical condition , both general and ultimate; general, as presiding over objects of many kinds, and ultimate, as being the perfection of that peculiar condition in each, and therefore not applicable to, or representing, its degrees in any; which, as approximations only to the one supreme Idea, should truly be distinguished by other terms.
— from Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

He noted, moreover, with surprise and approval, that there was not a touch of rusticity in the appointments of the table and the bill of fare.
— from Jessamine: A Novel by Marion Harland

“You look almost exactly like him,” returned Polly, even now refusing to be quite convinced, although there was not a trace of recognition in the smiling face she was scanning.
— from Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Emma C. Dowd

The door was closed again, but a word reached me now and then, occasional raisins in the loaf
— from Affinities, and Other Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Käthchen glanced apprehensively from the one to the other; but there was no flash of anger in those dark eyes, nor any tinge of resentment in the pale, olive-tinted face.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

"Levellers and phanaticks," sadly complains one writer, "blush not at their own rushing into other men's offices,—a bold but witless Justice of y e Peace, makes his neighbouring ministers cyphers, whilst he forceth y e King's subjects (quite against the graine) to elect and he to confirm a mere layman in the office of Parish Register— Proh pudor fronti enim, nulla fides ."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard