There was more struggle for her, and perhaps more falling.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Nothing had prepared me for her kindness and her beauty.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Considering the attributes of God, I believe, that whatever punishment may follow, will tend, like the anguish of disease, to show the malignity of vice, for the purpose of reformation.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Phoebe, at this, gave me a gentle jog, to prepare me for a whisper question: "Whether I thought my little maiden-head was much less?"
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

There wasn’t a pinch of it, and you know it was pride prevented me from telling you!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The ordinary accounts of this vortex had by no means prepared me for what I saw.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Feðer-home , sb. plumage, MD; fedramme , S3.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Democracy, which destroys or obscures almost all the old conventional rules of society, and which prevents men from readily assenting to new ones, entirely effaces most of the feelings to which these conventional rules have given rise; but it only modifies some others, and frequently imparts to them a degree of energy and sweetness unknown before.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

By and by to dinner about 3 o’clock and then I in the cabbin to writing down my journall for these last seven days to my great content, it having pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every thing else has conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last three months than in all my life before in so little time.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"I have met Lord Derrington, and if such an old Tartar feels remorse, then there is a chance that pigs may fly."
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language, therefore He hath prepared means for the interpretation thereof."
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

I put my foot down.
— from Lost Diaries by Maurice Baring

The Dangers of Delay PREFACE Considerably more than a third of a century has elapsed since I purchased my first book on stammering.
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

But on the day you play me false, or whisper my name to living soul--on that day, or within the week, you will hang!
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

W. Zenis Newton, photo Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus - Garden Exhibit, Colonnade.
— from The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry

Methods of research are no longer merely those antiquated psycho-physical and psycho-physiological methods formerly in favor; experimental psychology, henceforth emancipated from its origins, has developed independently.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

And, with a fierce, o'ermastering grasp, the rearing war-horse led And sternly set them face to face—the king before the dead:— "Came I not forth, upon thy pledge, my father's hand to kiss?— Be still, and gaze thou on, false king!
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

If a system of deceit, pursued merely from the love of truth; if voluptuousness, never gratified at the expense of health, may incur censure, I am censurable.
— from Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) by Charles Brockden Brown

597 Nescioquod medio sensi sub gurgite murmur Territaque insisto propioris margine fontis.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce