The sitting began; and Harriet, smiling and blushing, and afraid of not keeping her attitude and countenance, presented a very sweet mixture of youthful expression to the steady eyes of the artist.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum —A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
— 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.

For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving for pearls and never finding them.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Tom (laughing): “You are not going to come York over me in that way, or Yankee either.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The diminished brightness of your eye indicates incredulity.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Will you think of Raymond less at Windsor, the scene of your early happiness?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tenía la maldita manía de estarse quitando y poniendo a cada instante los lentes de oro, y en su conversación frecuentemente indicaba el empeño de ser transladado 30 pronto a Madriz , para prestar sus imprescindibles servicios en
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

You will frequently be called upon to give the unwelcome advice that a desired end can not be reached by a short cut; and this may cause some of your enthusiastic friends to lose confidence in your leadership.
— from Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser

On no occasion betray a friend; be revenged on your enemies; drink not the poisonous strong water of the white people, for it is sent by the bad spirit to destroy the Indians.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

My glory springs from another source; or if from this, by contrast only,—for I, the bishop, am the brother of your employers, Ugo.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

And though by what I have said (if it makes a proper impression) I doubt not but you will all have a just abhorrence of such immoral plays, instead of being pleased with them, should they fall in your way; yet I would advise you rather to avoid them, and never to read any but such as are approved of; and recommended to you by those who have the care of your education.’
— from The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding

The lady here seemed an excellent type of your Earthling women, and the meteoric iron in her necklace made a perfect focus for electric hypnosis.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

But I was told the boy Jacinto was dragged away by one of your excellency's menials; and I claim, as asking in the stead of his master, to know for what offence?"
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

Confining myself to bare narration: first, Then we are to have a ball this week at Mr. Hawky's Child-feast, (a Heathenish Name for the Christian Institution of Baptism), where the Ladies intend to shine most irresistably, and like enfants perdus, thrust themselves in the very front of y e Battle, break some stubborn Tramontanne Hearts, or Die of the spleen upon the spot.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Oh! Monsieur de Mazarin is no such fool as you think him, mesdames, although I wear myself out by constant efforts to convince you of your error!
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

Without any great scientific theory, it started as other Yankee experiments have done, with the purpose of feeling its way toward co-operation, by the light of experience and common sense; beginning cautiously, as was proper, with the general plan of joint-stock; but calling itself a Community, and evidently bewitched with the idea which is the essential charm of all Socialisms, that it is possible to combine many families into one great home.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

"I ought, therefore, to be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were you not kindness itself.
— from Study of a Woman by Honoré de Balzac