His pride and vanity are not touched, and what he writes may never be seen by anyone.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

But even to this hour can I pray, that God would remove from me all these delightful prospects, if they were likely so to corrupt my mind, as to make me proud and vain, and not acknowledge, with thankful humility, the blessed Providence which has so visibly conducted me through the dangerous paths I have trod, to this happy moment.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

That since all Prophecies and visiones are nowe ceased, all spirites that appeares in these formes are euill. Philomathes.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

At right there is no dividing wall save large plants and vines, a narrow aisle between shelves of plants leads off.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

The king got as a prize, a vest, a neck-cloth, and so forth, and had the right of setting up the May-bush or Whitsuntide-tree before his master’s yard, where it remained as an honourable token till the same day next year.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He was arrayed in a beautifully fitting dress-suit such as a doll might have worn, and he was posed as if in the act of playing a violin, although no violin was present.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

Finally, we can grasp the conscious ego itself, merely as an instrument in the service of that higher and more extensive intellect: and then we may ask whether all conscious willing, all conscious purposes, all valuations, are not perhaps only means by virtue of which something essentially different is attained, from that which consciousness supposes.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Indeed, chastity is in the countenance so passive a virtue as not to be at all suited to the genius of painting; the idea is rather that of insipidity, and accordingly Scipio’s expression is generally insipid enough.
— from A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779 by Arthur Young

At night," she cried, gazing into space as if her mind pursued a vision, "at night, if after long tearful watching an uneasy slumber falls upon me, I see him creep up towards me, this demon--this demon brought forth by hell; he holds out a goblet, green flames dart from it!
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

return Footnote 4: A pamphlet by John Peter, Artificial Versifying, a New Way to make Latin Verses.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Still student, still mathematician, he sought at Amsterdam, at Paris, at Vienna, all new theories which offered in the science of banking and finance, even as at the same time he delved still further into the mysteries of recurrences and chance.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough