Unlike some sufferers, he never spoke of his unrequited passion, and would allow no one, not even Mrs. March, to attempt consolation or offer sympathy.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And when the ships had been equipt, the Three Barons and the Lady, and the Two Brothers and Messer Marco, took leave of the Great Kaan, and went on board their ships with a great company of people, and with all necessaries provided for two years by the Emperor.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Charan said brightly, “I have a plan by which we can cover over the faults of the past, and win a new start for the future.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

A book was no good—in daily papers alone was any narcotic to such worry as his.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

It glowed delightfully in the radiance of an immense fire, compounded of coal, peat, and wood; and near the table, laid for a plentiful evening meal, I was pleased to observe the ‘missis,’ an individual whose existence I had never previously suspected.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Although Pius had two sons, he preferred the welfare of Rome to the interest of his family, gave his daughter Faustina, in marriage to young Marcus, obtained from the senate the tribunitian and proconsular powers, and, with a noble disdain, or rather ignorance of jealousy, associated him to all the labors of government.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He walks through the posts assigned, which are not only those along the vallum and gates, but also the pickets set by the several maniples and squadrons.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

If the owner of house A will allow the water company to run their pipe for house C through his property (and we are not bound to assume that he would object), then the difficulty is got over, as shown in our illustration.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

But position and wealth are not everything.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

No one, as far as I am aware, disputes Michelet's assertion that the enquiry before the Papal Commission in Paris, at which a number of Knights adhered to the statements they had made to the Pope, was conducted without pressure of any kind.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

"Doubtless such a household, with our library, our services and manner of life, may attract young men and women, possibly also families with children, desirous of access to the channels and fountain of wisdom and purity; and we are not without hope that Providence will use us progressively for beneficial effects in the great work of human regeneration, and the restoration of the highest life on earth.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

But it is just possible, as we are not perfectly good ourselves—you'll allow that, won't you?”
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

Hugh Noland went to the house with John, talking farm work and prices of produce as if they were matters of pleasant as well as necessary importance, and he set John to talking in his best vein and without superciliousness; he had the faculty of bringing out the best in the people he met.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

"'Tis important that every one should attend these meetings in such a pass as we are now.
— from Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons by Augusta Huiell Seaman

Our ambition has been roused, or our vanity has been piqued, and we are now pretty much in the same condition with the French, when it was said of them, that they "would renounce a thousand just rights, and pass condemnation on all other things, rather than allow that they are not the first musicians of the world."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

ahiahi o ke kolu o ka la a po, mai ia po a wanaao, akahi no a loaa ia ia ka hiamoe.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

It must not be supposed that these absurdities were produced, as well as nourished, by ignorance.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam