The recent ignominy had lighted up resentment in a mind unused to affront; it gave him additional courage, that the dictator had not ventured to the same extent against him, as Quinctius Cincinnatus had done in the case of Spurius Mælius, and because the dictator had not only endeavoured to avoid the unpopularity of his imprisonment by abdicating the dictatorship, but not even the senate could bear up against it.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

This sort of conversation lasted till we arrived at our journey’s end; and then a new distress occurred: Madame Duval was eager to speak to Lady Lady Howard and Mrs. Mirvan, and to relate her misfortunes: but she could not endure that Sir Clement or the Captain should see her in such disorder; so she said they were so ill-natured, that instead of pitying her, they would only make a jest of her disasters.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

My right leg chain'd into the crag, I lay Pent in a roofless close of ragged stones; Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist, and twice Black'd with thy branding thunder, and sometimes Sucking the damps for drink, and eating not, Except the spare chance-gift of those that came To touch my body and be heal'd, and live:
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"There was no end to such complications.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

But even if we neglect the motive, and take the intention only into account, it is not easy to state clear principles for determining the gravity of crimes.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

How to hide the nightgown so that not even the Sergeant could find it?
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I am here assuming what I think I have shown; that there is in the State no fundamental law that cannot be revoked, not excluding the social compact itself; for if all the citizens assembled of one accord to break the compact, it is impossible to doubt that it would be very legitimately broken.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" "They drink nothing else there," said Cain, "and seem to enjoy it, to see how they swaller it down.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is merely to send him into the neighborhood of some professor, where anything is professed and practised but the art of life;—to survey the world through a telescope or a microscope, and never with his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread is made, or mechanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured by the monsters that swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The revolution has ruined the Empire and Italy; all the reserve funds have been dissipated; the finances of the state are in such straits that not even the soldiers can be paid punctually and the legions every now and then claim their dues by revolt.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero

For over two years, Yolande staid on, reaping golden opinions on all sides; her constant devotion to the wounded all day and many nights, easing their suffering, comforting, cheering, even in the last sad hours staying with them through the Valley of the Shadow, and going to the funeral and the grave!
— from War Days in Brittany by Elsie Deming Jarves

Vertical spores are immersed throughout the whole surface of the cord, and Dr. Harvey says that, mixed with these, there are numerous narrow, elliptical, transversely striated cells, which according to M. Thuret produce zoospores.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Nobody, not even the sheriff, could enter to search for the assassin: what else could this mean but that there was a conspiracy—that the governor himself knew of the plot to kill and was protecting the slayer?
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

But then she had been quite firm in her purpose to give him no encouragement that she could avoid.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

As they had expected, there was no explosion, but, what was more serious, there was not even the slight crackling which indicates the presence of a small quantity of firedamp.
— from The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) by Jules Verne

He was a hardened villain, never exhibiting the slightest compunction for his crime.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.