I should be as ready to acknowledge his merits as any other man; but I hear of none, except what are merely personal; that he is well-grown and good-looking, with smooth, plausible manners.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

He looks as if life hadn't been altogether easy for him, somehow." Owen Ford came over the next evening with a note to Anne from Leslie; they spent the sunset time in the garden and then went for a moonlit sail on the harbor, in the little boat Gilbert had set up for summer outings.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And still the fire-deluge abates not; even women are firing, and Turks; at least one woman ( with her sweetheart ), and one Turk.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Nothing of the fence kind was observable elsewhere; for nowhere else was an artificial enclosure needed:—any stray sheep, for example, which should attempt to make its way out of the vale by means of the ravine, would find its progress arrested, after a few yards’ advance, by the precipitous ledge of rock over which tumbled the cascade that had arrested my attention as I first drew near the domain.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This frightened me a little, I confess, and would have frightened me more if I had known how nearly exact were Alan’s predictions; indeed it was but in one point that he exaggerated, there being but eleven Campbells on the jury; though as the other four were equally in the Duke’s dependence, it mattered less than might appear.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high round the neck, exceedingly warm, and with a mill-stone round her neck in the shape of a great ruff—accurately dressed after a Dutch picture in the possession of the General, in which the hands were especially admired.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Since it is so far only a negative effect which, arising from the influence of pure practical reason, checks the activity of the subject, so far as it is determined by inclinations, and hence checks the opinion of his personal worth (which, in the absence of agreement with the moral law, is reduced to nothing); hence, the effect of this law on feeling is merely humiliation.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

The goodness of God however so ordered it, that while Basset was travelling to Woodstock, Benefield, by an order of council, was going to London; in consequence of which, he left a positive order with his brother, that no man should be admitted to the princess during his absence, not even with a note from the queen; his brother met the murderer, but the latter's intention was frustrated, as no admission could be obtained.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Now, the Captain D’Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

These places are not entirely without a pretension to magnificence; but, considered in reference to what is desirable in landscape gardening, they are the very laid idéal of deformity.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

This was not, however, a thing to be spoken about, and nobody else was admitted into the secret.
— from Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

Nothing else was astir but it and I, and I took it up in my hand, idly.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

And range each class according to degrees— Here the Tomfoolites—there the Noodeletarians? NOTICE.—Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various

New enlistments were accomplished tardily, and in December not more than five thousand recruits had joined the army.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

So I came back to Casa Grande, not exactly with a feeling of frustration, but with a feeling of possibilities withheld and issues deferred.
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

But though we should naturally expect winds and currents, rivers and clouds, and even plants to follow fixed laws, we should scarcely have looked for such regularity in the life of the active, independent busy bee.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

Their case was so unimportant; they only tried to get away from the convoy, and had not even wounded any one.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Cooking is the chief concern of a very large number of New England wives and mothers.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton