"Nevertheless, I must do according to my own best judgment.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of all the amusements open for young people, none is more delightful and more popular than dancing.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

occasionally come out, and like their masters are much agitated and defend the nest: when the nest is much disturbed and the larvae and pupae are exposed, the slaves work energetically with their masters in carrying them away to a place of safety.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Necessity is my driver, and that is only another name for the same gentleman.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Page 245 A pamphlet bearing Rizal’s symbolic name in Masonry, “Dimas Alang.” Rizal’s own symbolic name was “Dimas Alang”—Tagalog for “Noli Me Tangere”—and his nom de plume in some of his controversial publications.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

There is not much alteration necessary in my dress, as you see.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Is it not impressive, Mr. Darnay?” asked Lucie.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

and oh what not in man Deceivable and vain!
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Often it happens in revery that when we stare at a picture, suddenly some one of its features will be lit up with especial clearness, although neither its optical character nor its meaning discloses any motive for such an arousal of the attention....
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In the early lecture, which is "On the Forms of Matter," he points out the advantages and dangers of systematizing, and winds up his remarks with— "Nothing is more difficult and requires more care than philosophical deduction, nor is there anything more adverse to its accuracy than fixidity of opinion.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

And I don’t drink vodka, my lad, and am neat in my dress, and know how to behave with decorum in good society.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“That's not in my department at all.” Ailie expressed her views with calm, soft deliberation, as if she, too, had been thinking of nothing else for weeks, which was partly the case.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

Even the settled despair, the never ceasing anxiety I was constantly experiencing when awake, had become now, in my dream and in the face of this repetition of visions and events, as an hour of darkened sunlight compared to a deadly cyclone.
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

I was too much occupied yesterday with merely private affairs, and now I must dilate a little upon public matters.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

I continued to follow the multitude, because custom led the way, and now I must die alone.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East