I limp.” “To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee, And make thy fortunes proud.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[pg 305] XXV. Now swome a prison in a prison put, And now this Soule in double walls was shut, Till melted with the Swans digestive fire, She left her house the fish, and vapour'd forth; 245 Fate not affording bodies of more worth For her as yet, bids her againe retire T'another fish, to any new desire Made a new prey; For, he that can to none Resistance make, nor complaint, sure is gone.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heart pocket.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In Mrs. Sparsit’s limp and streaming state, no extensive precautions were necessary to change her usual appearance; but, she stopped under the lee of the station wall, tumbled her shawl into a new shape, and put it on over her bonnet.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

After an eloquent expression of his wish for independence (ll. 261-270), he goes on to speak of the babbling friends who insist that he is always meditating some new satire, and persist in recognizing some wretched poetaster's lampoon as his.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Will you believe that she never said a prayer in her life till tonight?
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Nay, since all pleasure is in its nature negative, that is to say, consists in freedom from some form of misery or need, the constant and rapid interchange between setting about something and getting it done, which is the permanent accompaniment of the work they do, and then again the augmented form which this takes when they go from work to rest and the satisfaction of their needs—all this gives them a constant source of enjoyment; and the fact that it is much commoner to see happy faces amongst the poor than amongst the rich, is a sure proof that it is used to good advantage.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Of course, thought in isolation has not such a power; it acquires it only through its relation to a wider life and in championing the cause of that life.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

“If the fellow were not such a prig, if only your happiness would last....”
— from Twilight by Julia Frankau

We strove hard to get our goods home, for we were fearful, inasmuch as our trunk was on deck, and it had rained, and a sea now and then had washed over it, that it might be wet and ruined; but we did not succeed, and Paddechal in this exhibited again his inconsiderateness, and little regard for his promise.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

Mon Dieu! " cried the bois brûlés , who had never seen a picture in their lives except in the cathedral of St. Boniface, at Fort Garry. "
— from Duffels by Edward Eggleston

The doctor's prognostications as to the health of the crew were only partially verified, for the precautions taken, if they did not secure a perfect immunity against fever, at least greatly diminished the number of those who suffered from it.
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty