Farfrae, willing to humour Henchard, though quite uninterested, and bursting with yawns, gave well-mannered attention.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

But here, I think the general remonstrance, ‘we are a new country,’ which is so often advanced as an excuse for defects which are quite unjustifiable, as being, of right, only the slow growth of an old one, may be very reasonably urged: and I yet hope to hear of there being some other national amusement in the United States, besides newspaper politics.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

For this reason, all the attempts which have been made to prove the principle of sufficient reason, have, according to the universal admission of philosophers, been quite unsuccessful; and, before the appearance of transcendental criticism, it was considered better, as this principle could not be abandoned, to appeal boldly to the common sense of mankind (a proceeding which always proves that the problem, which reason ought to solve, is one in which philosophers find great difficulties), rather than attempt to discover new dogmatical proofs.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Four books have been translated by now but Vorotov knows nothing beyond the word mémoires, and when he is asked about his scientific research work he waves his hand, leaves the question unanswered, and begins to talk about the weather.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He wore, indeed, the high white collar and satin tie that were the uniform of the occasion; but out of this collar there sprang a head quite unmanageable and quite unmistakable, a bewildering bush of brown hair and beard that almost obscured the eyes like those of a Skye terrier.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“Some are caught,” said the sergeant, quite unconcerned; and bound the fellow’s hands with the rope which he had stretched across the road to entrap the Jew.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I’m quite uneasy at being always right so often.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Freddie Drummond accepted the doctrine of evolution because it was quite universally accepted by college men, and he flatly believed that man had climbed up the ladder of life out of the weltering muck and mess of lower and monstrous organic things.
— from The Strength of the Strong by Jack London

For instance; undertaking to paint Moses at the Burning Bush, he represents a graceful landscape with a city, a river, and a bridge, and plenty of tall trees, and the sea, and numbers of people going about their business and pleasure in every direction; and the bush burning quietly upon a bank in the corner; rather in the 321 dark, and not to be seen without close inspection.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Three binders stood, and took the handfuls reap'd From boys that gather'd quickly up, and by them armfuls heap'd.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

The physical expression of the emotion of fear or terror may persist for a long time quite unchanged and be proved to be due to this old factor.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

Many of these were quite unhurt, and being placed in an aquarium, throve wonderfully; wonderfully in a double sense, for it was found that as they grew older so they grew smaller and smaller.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

I caught the spirit of his quick utterances, and blew out my words in a splutter, striving to be business-like, but before I could cover all his points he had eaten his pie and was impatiently waiting for me.
— from The Jucklins: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

You’ll give me the people’s name, their address?...” Pierre laid his hand on the older man’s wrist and gave it a queer urgent and beseeching shake.
— from The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

The horse was quickly unstabled, and brought round to the tavern door, but the innkeeper was loth to let the good knight depart.
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

added Annie, with an enthusiasm which quite upset all Bobby's assumed indifference.
— from Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks by Oliver Optic

During the remainder of this day, in accordance with Master Howell's suggestion, we talked with such of the citizens as came to question us, and by nightfall the Brunswickers 94 must have had a fairly good idea of the situation in upper Carolina, where already had four hundred gentlemen declared they would resist the misrule which was crushing them to the earth.
— from The Boy Spies with the Regulators The Story of How the Boys Assisted the Carolina Patriots to Drive the British from That State by James Otis