We, armed with powers of penance, might Destroy the rovers of the night: But loth were we to bring to naught The merit years of toil have bought.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

With regard to animals not then treated as property, which in the main were the wilder animals, the law was settled that, "if they are of a tame nature, there must be notice of the ill quality; and the law takes notice, that a dog is not of a fierce nature, but rather the contrary." /5/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I was impressed by all this at the time, but not too much so, though I cried a good deal at his funeral.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing but a becoming blush betrayed the moving thoughts that urged themselves upon her as she accepted the seat next to Mr. Crackenthorp; for she was so instinctively neat and adroit in all her actions, and her pretty lips met each other with such quiet firmness, that it would have been difficult for her to appear agitated.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

It could not have been done had not the man been compromised first; it could not have been done without certain newspaper connivance; it would never have been done had not the Senator's masters wished it.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But what is nearer to me than myself?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd 35 bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

de Saint-Euverte would extricate her as soon as her presence there was noticed), next to Mme.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

There was, however, a certain coldness in the eyes and a firm set of the lip and jaw that were new to me.
— from The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott

Presently, as I went heedless of all direction and the sun very hot, I began to stagger in my gait and to mutter her name to myself and presently to shouting it, until the cliffs gave back my cries and the hollow caves murmured, "Damaris!
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

109 Brazil is believed to have nearly two millions of aborigines, most of them savages, Argentina perhaps fifty thousand, Chile one hundred twenty thousand (including the Fuegians).
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

By the time I'd learnt what poverty can teach, it would be over,—or I am no true man!
— from Idolatry: A Romance by Julian Hawthorne

[p 31 ] Contents Nicholas Thomas Marion Dufresne was an officer in the French navy, and was born at St. Malo in 1729.
— from Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects by James Roxburgh McClymont

“No,” I thought, “he does not think me silly, or he would not have talked to me about all this as he has done.”
— from The Grim House by Mrs. Molesworth

“She really needs the money, Ned.
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

Great as was the one, it cannot be said that he was greater than the other; but when the supreme arbitrament was within the grasp of both, as it was at the naval battle of Prevesa, neither the Christian admiral nor the Moslem corsair would reach out his hand and grasp the nettle of his fate.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

All this plan was given to the President in writing, and having adopted all that part of it which depended on his own authority, he applied to Congress to give him authority to do what he could not without it, namely, to make the appointment of a lieutenant-general—the appointment, it being well known, intended for Senator Benton, who had been a colonel in the army before either of the present generals held that rank.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Uncle Methuselah having died intestate on the seventh day of April, every able-bodied adult in the Hemel, not to mention the children, stood outside Notary Noks’s little office-door on the morning of the eighth.
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens