you don't like the smell of it, my dear," said the young woman, observing that Maggie did not even take a spoonful of the stew.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

'Why no,' said Mr Boffin, 'not exactly that; a sort of a family tie.' 'Association?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

[414] Thus, every time that there is [Pg 139] an assembly, either of the totemic group or of the tribe, the men have a separate camp, distinct from that of the women, and into which these latter may not enter: they are separated off.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

"And for which," says the king, "I will give thee the earldom, and place thee to rule over Norway; and my relation Hakon shall come to me, which will suit him better, for he is so honourable and trustworthy that I believe he would not even throw a spear against the person of King Olaf if he came back to the country.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The captain's peculiarities were not confined to his external appearance; for his voice resembled the sound of a bassoon, or the aggregate hum of a whole bee-hive, and his discourse was almost nothing else than a series of quotations from the English poets, interlarded with French phrases, which he retained for their significance, on the recommendation of his friends, being himself unacquainted with that or any other outlandish tongue.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

At the conclusion of these thoughts, he took up the Mirror of Voluptuousness, and cast his eyes on the obverse side; but upon perceiving nought else than a skeleton standing in it, Chia Jui sustained such a fright that he lost no time in covering it with his hands and in abusing the Taoist.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

"I'm not equal to answering," said Sancho, "for I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders; let us mount and get away from this; I'll keep from braying, but not from saying that knights-errant fly and leave their good squires to be pounded like privet, or made meal of at the hands of their enemies."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

that unto blessedness after death pertaineth—PERMISSION-to-sit!) Nor even that a Spirit called Holy, led your forefathers into promised lands, which I do not praise: for where the worst of all trees grew—the cross,—in that land there is nothing to praise!— —And verily, wherever this “Holy Spirit” led its knights, always in such campaigns did—goats and geese, and wryheads and guyheads run FOREMOST!—
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For they should not be reckoned as great blessings in the case of those who do not enjoy them, and small blessings in the case of those who do.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Now Tanaquil could not endure that any should be preferred before him, wherefore when the people of Tarquinii despised Lucumo, because he was the son of a stranger, Tanaquil could not endure it, and caring not for her country, if only she could see her husband held in honour, purposed to depart thence and dwell elsewhere.
— from Stories From Livy by Alfred John Church

On nearly every tract, a second cut can be made within thirty years.
— from Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by E. T. (Edward Tyson) Allen

While these time hints are obviously not exact, they are suggestive of the fact that you should time everything which enters into your act.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

But with Fidele all was festival, not even their annual solemn fast of Ramadan did he ever keep, but was universally known to be an unbeliever, even in what was called his own religion.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

For what we call a judgment is, in the last resort, nothing else than a simultaneous lighting up of a number of presentations in consciousness, which we in truth only bring into relation with each other because we ourselves became conscious of them at one and the same moment.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The only point that I wish to prove is, that it is nothing else than a species of Communism.
— from Protection and Communism by Frédéric Bastiat

But its perusal in that condition was not entirely thrown away, since I was able to recommend it to a teacher of composition, as containing, within a moderate compass—after the manner, in fact, of a handbook—good practical specimens of every description of depravity of style of which the English language is susceptible.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

Oswald pulled the silken cord of the curtain, and the youth at Saïs, who lifted the veil before the sacred image of Isis, could not have been more startled than Oswald was when he saw, not a richly tinted Italian painting, but in a niche, a bust of chaste white marble, which, in spite of the antique hair-dress and a slight attempt to idealize, was nothing else than a striking portrait of Melitta.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

It is not easy to answer such a question.
— from Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys

It soon became known that these reports had not exaggerated the available supply of Para rubber, and fresh energy and enterprise were attracted to the Valley of the Amazon by the rosy prospects of the raw rubber trade.
— from Rubber by Edith A. Browne