Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

On asking her, she admitted that the other peeping rooms had been occupied by couples, and that one elderly gentleman had had two of her page boys to operate and be operated upon while the scene before him excited him to the necessary extent to take a part in it himself.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary; above all a lack of apparent force.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Conscience, then, is nothing else than the acquaintance [Pg 252] we make with our own changeless character through the instrumentality of our acts.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

These indexes, we feel, need no explanation to the average person sufficiently progressive to have come thus far in the study of the Enumeration.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman

About 158 his only answer to the arguments adduced against him, was to add new proofs and new experiments to those already published.
— from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park

He was told that if that was his age, he could not have been in the Revolutionary War, and consequently was not en- titled to any pension.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

As far back as the time of Bacon's rebellion, a patriotic woman of the colony congratulated her friends that now "Virginia can build ships, and, like New England, trade to any part of the world."
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

He learned that there were only about thirty, like God, space, matter, the beings with extension that sense, the beings with extension that sense and think, the thinking beings that have no extension; those that are penetrable, those that are not, and the rest.
— from Micromegas by Voltaire

Let us now enter this tavern, and partake of rum and crackers."
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

But Captain Dan would not let me get near enough to take a picture.
— from Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey

He here gives a biography, mental and physical, of one of the most remarkable cases of high nervous excitement that the age, [pg 70] so interested in such, yet affords, with all its phenomena of clairvoyance and susceptibility of magnetic influences.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller