The unhappy Jew eyed their countenances and that of Front-de-Boeuf, in hope of discovering some symptoms of relenting; but that of the Baron exhibited the same cold, half-sullen, half-sarcastic smile which had been the prelude to his cruelty; and the savage eyes of the Saracens, rolling gloomily under their dark brows, acquiring a yet more sinister expression by the whiteness of the circle which surrounds the pupil, evinced rather the secret pleasure which they expected from the approaching scene, than any reluctance to be its directors or agents.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

5 ada — particle expressing resignation to s.t. bad and indicating the speaker doesn’t care.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Even now hostile voices are being raised against philosophy, exclaiming: “Return to science, to nature, and the naturalness of science!” and thus an age may begin which may discover the most powerful beauty precisely in the “savage and ugly” domains of science, just as it is only since the time of Rousseau that we have discovered the sense for the beauty of high mountains and deserts.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But all the town was up in arms against me after the funeral, and people even refused to see me.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The great lords, though willing to assist him upon particular emergencies, refused to subject themselves to any constant tax, and he was not strong enough to force them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

No two persons ever read the same book or saw the same picture.
— from French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

When charged with complicity in the plot, Elizabeth replied that she knew nothing of it.
— from Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

We had read her lament on the death of sociability and back yards with many a smile, and a sigh also, for to one born in the pool, every ripple that stirs it must be of importance, and it is impossible for outsiders to urge her to step out of the eddies altogether and begin anew, for New Yorkitis seems to be not only a rarely curable disease to those who have it, but an hereditary one as well.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

[Pg 78] The instant the rawhide began whirling about Blinky's head the ponies evidently realized that something was up, for they began a wild race round and round the corral, heads up and heels lashing out right and left.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Range by John Henry Goldfrap

Even if we altogether discard Watson’s evidence of James’s promises, enough remains to satisfy my own mind that the new king had given the Catholics more or less hope of toleration; and, if I am too easily satisfied on this point, there can be no sort of question that Sir Everard Digby, who was often with Father Gerard, and that many other English Catholics had been assured, rightly or wrongly, and believed, wrongly or rightly, that King James had solemnly promised to give them immunity from persecution, if not freedom of worship, and that he had basely and treacherously broken his faith with them and [Pg 68] sold them for the price of popularity among his far more numerous Protestant subjects: who, then, can blame them for considering themselves to have been most unjustly, perfidiously, and infamously treated by that monarch?
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

She made as though she would seek her room with as little delay as possible. Eola, repentant that she had hurt her feelings by remarks about the bazaar gossip, softened in her manner and begged to hear the news.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

Proofs enough remain to show that the size of the herds simply could not be exaggerated.
— from The Story of the Trapper by Agnes C. Laut