It was—’ Louisa turned upon her pillow, and heard no more.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

For as a torch or candle, as long as it hath life enough and is lighted, shines round about, disperses its light, delights those that are near it, yields them its service and clearness, and never causes any pain or displeasure; but as soon as ‘tis extinguished, its smoke and evaporation infects the air, offends the bystanders, and is noisome to all; so, as long as those noble and renowned souls inhabit their bodies, peace, profit, pleasure, and honour never leave the places where they abide; but as soon as they leave them, both the continent and adjacent islands are annoyed with great commotions; in the air fogs, darkness, thunder, hail; tremblings, pulsations, agitations of the earth; storms and hurricanes at sea; together with sad complaints amongst the people, broaching of religions, changes in governments, and ruins of commonwealths.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The greatest evil of all is that a man may sell his property and have no place in the State; while there is one class which has enormous wealth, the other is entirely destitute.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

This, accordingly, has been the case with most of these things upon most occasions, and would have been the case with all of them upon all occasions, if particular accidents had not, upon some occasions, increased the supply of some of them in a still greater proportion than the demand.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

However, while they were still in the plain, and had not yet entered the Paralian land, he had prepared an armament of a hundred ships for Peloponnese, and when all was ready put out to sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Much obliged by your sparing me these minutes of your time.' As Mr Milvey, who had no more minutes to spare, made a suitable reply and turned back into the office, he observed the schoolmaster to lean against the pillar with his hat in his hand, and to pull at his neckcloth as if he were trying to tear it off.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The physiologist insists upon the removal of degenerated parts, he denies all fellow-feeling for such parts, and has not the smallest feeling of pity for them.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

From this the Sorceress drew an immense white pearl, attached to a slender chain which she placed around her neck in such a way that the pearl rested upon her bosom, directly over her heart.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Atli oft inquired whither his boys were gone to play, as he nowhere saw them?
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

I learned from rabbit that there were four orphan brothers living here all alone, and that the youngest was keeping house for his older brothers, so I thought I would come over and see if I couldn’t have them adopt me as their sister, so that I might keep house for them, as I am very poor and have no relations, neither have I a home.”
— from Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin

Mr. Potts was the first to notice that the poor animal had no tail,—for the two or three vertebræ attached to the termination of the spine could hardly be supposed to constitute a tail proper.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

Now of all the elements of which society is constituted, Woman certainly is the most esthetic, alike from her nature and her position; and both her position and her nature are raised and strengthened by Positivism.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

8 He then joined the Dutch, but when Connecticut and New Haven were clamorous for war with the Dutch in 1653 he plotted against his new master, was imprisoned, and escaped to Rhode Island, 9 where he received a commission to prey on Dutch commerce.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

“And why, mistress,” he inquired, eying her, his fingers plucking at his nether lip, “do they desire my testimony?”
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

In the necessary process of re-examining the "goods," something fell out of one of the pockets, something the poet, after his nature, had quite forgotten.
— from The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables by Richard Le Gallienne

And as the meals at the Jones ranch were served sporadically, and "Red" was as healthy as a peasant and had never known the time when he couldn't tuck away some dainty from the kitchen he ingratiated himself with Mrs. Quinn, quite won her heart, too, with his music, and was even known to desert his work for the boon of a bit of pie.
— from The Bad Man: A Novel by Porter Emerson Browne

"Here was a theologian of ninety-one," says the narrator of this incident, "who, after surveying the entire field of sacred science, had come back to the starting point, and had nothing better to advise me to read than—the Gospel!"
— from How to Master the English Bible An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration by James M. (James Martin) Gray

It seemed sad to hear that she never went out, because she did not care to go 'covered up,' and that such had been the seclusion of her existence, that she scarcely knew any animals by sight, except from pictures, and had no pets, except, as she said, 'pet books.'
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey