Now in New England the heavy weight of repression and suppression was lifted from the minds of these young students; they exulted in their freedom and leaped for joy.
— from My Life in China and America by Wing Yung

In Social Origins Lang offers evidence concerning names (even depreciatory and mocking names) having been conferred in this way and accepted; but in The Secret of the Totem , [526] he says that how groups got their names is not essential to his theory.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

No! impossible; not even to herself.
— from By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn

Greed of every kind, ambition of every nature, is not easy to hide.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

Indeed, there was no illusion nor enchantment to help one in those elementary days.
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

She had shrunk from the idea of giving him pain, had dreaded the confession of her own misdeeds; but she had indemnified her conscience to herself for ill-treating Cheriton by a sort of unnatural and unreal admiration of what she called his goodness; which seemed to her to render self-abnegation natural, if not easy, to him.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

"Coates's House," Kansas City, on which we descended late at night, is not exactly the hotel a fastidious or exacting person would select as an abiding place if he had one experience of it.
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir