He’s good-hearted, but he’s proud, and now he’s so humiliated.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Here Dodson drew himself up, with an air of offended virtue, and looked at Fogg, who thrust his hands farther in his pockets, and nodding his head sagely, said, in a tone of the fullest concurrence, ‘Most certainly.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

'Ma,' interposed the young lady, 'I must say I think it would be much better if you would keep to the point, and not hold forth about people's flying into people's faces, which is nothing more nor less than impossible nonsense.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And father was away and there was no doctor nearer than Lowbridge—and we could not 'phone and neither horse nor man could get through the drifts that night.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She had always been a young princess, and nobody had ever seriously combated her will.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

He wrote a large number of works on philosophy and natural history.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

It was hard to go away and leave it all, particularly as Nut had actually crept on to her dress and Shell had scrambled down the trunk of the apple-tree they sat under and stayed there looking at her with inquiring eyes.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Here they went with a kind of hand-barrow and laid the dead bodies on it, and carried them out to the carts; which work he performed and never had the distemper at all, but lived about twenty years after it, and was sexton of the parish to the time of his death.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

At last I lit the pipe, and no human being can feel meaner and baser than I did then.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Keep the midst of the path and no hurt shall come to thee.’
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

It was at Lausanne that she met and fell in love with Gibbon, the English historian; this love affair met with opposition from Gibbon's father, and, after the death of the father of his fiancée, a calamity which left her poor and necessitated her teaching for a living, the Englishman, by his actions and manner toward her, compelled the breaking of their engagement.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

He relies on St. Dionysius the Areopagite for heaven and the angels, Aristotle for Physics and Natural History, Pliny's Natural History, Isidore of Seville's Etymology, Albumazar, Al Faragus, and other Arab writers for Astronomy, Constantinus Afer's Pantegna for Medical Science, and Physiologus, the Bestiarium, and the Lapidarium for the properties of gems, animals, etc.
— from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

He had resisted the beginnings of evil; he had held out under the stress of persecution; and now he could enjoy the smoother and brighter waters over which he sailed.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Let us recognize the source of these fundamental principles and not hesitate to assert them.
— from Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge

"When Arthur Dumaresque comes home," had been her feeble promise; and now, how true his words to his wife and Janet had turned out: "That woman will never let my aunt live until Arthur Dumaresque comes home."
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 687 February 24, 1877 by Various

When a wood-cut left on the press all night has become warped, lay it on its face upon the imposing-stone, with a few thicknesses of damp paper underneath it, and place over it the flat side of a planer, with sufficient weight upon it: in the course of a few hours the block will be restored to its original flatness.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

That about his botany had all been pure fiction; but it had served its purpose, and now, he regretfully remarked, his plant-lore, he found, had completely faded from his mind.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Probably at nine he was being considered for president of Yale—no, Harvard.
— from A Plea for Old Cap Collier by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

“What about Dick Strangely, who was formerly teller in the bank over the way, and one of your numerous and most persistent admirers, Nell?” he inquired.
— from My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories by James Selwin Tait