I said nothing more on the subject, however, at the time, and but little on any other; for, finding I could not well recover my equanimity, I presently rose and took leave, excusing myself under the plea of business at the farm; and to the farm I went, not troubling my mind one whit about the possible truth of these mysterious reports, but only wondering what they were, by whom originated, and on what foundations raised, and how they could the most effectually be silenced or disproved.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Within it was an oven, with fire in it at the time, and a large brass upon it, with a cover of the same, and a lock to it.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Or who should slay the guiltless son Of hermit sire who injures none, Who dwells retired in woods, and there Supports his life on woodland fare?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Honesty, granting that it is the virtue of which we cannot rid ourselves, we free spirits—well, we will labour at it with all our perversity and love, and not tire of "perfecting" ourselves in OUR virtue, which alone remains: may its glance some day overspread like a gilded, blue, mocking twilight this aging civilization with its dull gloomy seriousness!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A child of this age, that is required to judge the action or relations of persons, will not keep one waiting for the proper solution, but if the action is brought into relation to its selfhood, to its own personality, there is a sudden disingenuity, a twisting of the judgment, an incapacity in the child to set itself at the objective point of view.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture, and my aunt would never cease from looking at the time, and yawning, and complaining of each of her symptoms in turn.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It seems somewhat incongruous that an old ascetic should be associated with matrimonial happiness and the granting of offspring, but the explanation may possibly be connected with his performance of wonderful feats of necromancy, though he is said not to have given encouragement to others in these things during his lifetime.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

We were all weary of waiting for you.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When this news reached my ear, I appointed Jalāl, s. Dilāwar K., on whose forehead the traces of bravery and ambition were manifest, and who had done good service in the conquest of Kis͟htwār, with the mansab of 1,000 personal and 600 horse, giving him the attendants of his father who were enrolled among the servants of the Court, and an army of the soldiers of Kashmir, with many of the Zamindars and men on foot with muskets, to assist him in overcoming that mob, doomed to a vile end.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

The adjoining court must have belonged to the earliest [Pg 126] part of the castle, as it contains a very remarkable early Norman building (splendidly restored in the 13th century) which is regarded by most authorities as the original hall of William FitzOsbern.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

Many 295 Communists show signs of weakening faith.
— from Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul Dukes

There is no heap of sand in a corner, nor is there a tub of water; for the practical teacher knows how little hands, if not little feet, with their vigorous but as yet uncontrolled movements would splash the water and scatter the sand with dire effects as to the floor, which the theorist fondly imagines would always be clean enough to sit upon.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

[983] ;—and two described by Scopoli, one, the larva of a fly frequenting hemp; and the other, which feeds on a Boletus , that of a gnat [984] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

After the Civil War the Prebendaries found that they had suffered considerable losses by the acts of their predecessors; so it was determined by Thomas Wren, LL.D. (son of the aforementioned Rev. Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely, whose literary remains include “A Brief History of the Parish and Jurisdiction of Wolverhampton, from the Time of King Edgar”) prebendary of page 74
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

And the reader will not rise from the story of this little war without carrying away an impression of wild fury and reckless valour which will long retain its colours in his mind.
— from The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

This much can be said, that the morale of the British Army remains unimpaired; that the presence of mind and ability of the great majority of the officers who, flung on their own resources, conducted the retreat, cannot be questioned; while the accomplishment of General Carey, in stopping the gap with an improvised force of non-combatants, will go down in history.
— from A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill

The Yankees in Mr Broadbent’s opinion were far ahead of the English in everything pertaining to the economy of life, and the best manner of living.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

And well they might; for one of these needy men, Pierre de Rivaulx, had obtained a grant for life of nearly every office and emolument in Ireland; amongst others, we find mention of "the vacant sees, and the Jews in Ireland."
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack