For the unhappy Giovanna, crushed beneath the audacious effrontery of her rival, languishing from the neglect and open indifference of her husband, solitary and apart amid the festivities of a court, whose loose morals were to her Austrian correctness an abomination, and whose recent sovereignty her Austrian pride despised; the mother of daughters only to her husband's great regret, and increased dislike; of unamiable, reserved manners, and of unlovely appearance,—this unhappy Giovanna might very possibly, (even without any assistance from such means as both Francesco and Bianca knew very well how to avail themselves of, if need were,) not continue long to be an obstacle in their way.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

In an age of effusion to be reserved, and in days of universal professions of sympathy to show a saturnine front, was to be an original.
— from Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs by John Morley

Now, as then, when any great convulsions shake what seems permanent, and bring home to men the thinness of the crust of use and wont roofing an infinite depth of unknown possibilities of change, on which we walk, the heart cries out for some assurance of perpetuity, and some revelation of God's mind.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

Some, who had no other place, encamped on the roadsides and in ditches, others upon land belonging to other people, whereupon they were prosecuted, and, having caused “damage of the value of a halfpenny,” were fined a pound, and, being unable to pay it, worked it out on the treadmill.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

Judas mused a moment, his face reddening as it did only under deep emotion, generally of some resentment.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow