There is not even a family likeness between her and your mother.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her, something precious, and love is so far obliged to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of its duration in pleasures which, on the contrary, would have no existence apart from love and must cease with its passing, that when he left her, at seven o'clock, to go and dress for the evening, all the way home, sitting bolt upright in his brougham, unable to repress the happiness with which the afternoon's adventure had filled him, he kept on repeating to himself: "What fun it would be to have a little woman like that in a place where one could always be certain of finding, what one never can be certain of finding, a really good cup of tea."
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

And this Unity exists among the good: for they have it towards themselves and towards one another, being, if I may be allowed the expression, in the same position: I mean, the wishes of such men are steady and do not ebb and flow like the Euripus, and they wish what is just and expedient and aim at these things in common.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The neck of the animal, before arched, as if in compassion, over the prostrate body of its lord, was now extended, at full length, in the direction of the Baron.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

After Plautus’s time, nec for nōn occurs in a few set combinations, such as nec opīnāns , not expecting , and, from Livy on, necdum , not yet , i.e. nōndum .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait mal et se décolla.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

No tree varies the dreary prospect, no shrub relieves the eye, not even a flower lends its aid to enliven the wild and gloomy hollow, the fittest refuge that the imagination could picture for the lawless and the desperate.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

The character who flourishes under that name among us is quite a different bird; he is twice as large, and has altogether a different air, and as he sits up with military erectness on a rail fence or stump, shows not even a family likeness to his diminutive English namesake.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To think that Sarah Ford, a stranger in Dalton, whose father was not even a firemen, let alone a soldier, should take first place!
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose

When the counsels of princes were of none effect, and for lack of the spirit of counsel the people were perishing, his mind alone, illuminated by a wisdom from on high, saw what was the right step to take.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

He could give a dinner, and furnish an ostentatious entertainment—lodge his guest in the style of a prince for weeks together, nor exhibit a feature likely to induce a thought of intrusion in the mind of his inmate.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

“This Government long ago lost the right to say that it could not enforce a federal law against less than a thousand of its agricultural citizens.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

"Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là Tenait mal, et se décolla.
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

In a word, not even aptness for learning and memory will give the power to see the truth as to virtue and vice to one who is not kin to the subject; nor, again, this kinship without such aptitude and memory: but when both are joined, then out of living together, after much time, 405 by the continual friction of name, definition, acts of sight and perception, by thought and meditation, the hearing and answering the objections of others, the process of mutual cross-examination discharged without envy or jealousy, and with sincere love of the truth, a sudden flash of fire kindles in the mind, and nourishes itself, disclosing the knowledge required.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Turning out, if peaceably conducted, is perfectly legal, and often necessary, especially among female laborers."
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry