It's quite right and justifiable, if done from a simple aversion to physical pain and danger.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Sviazhsky’s study was a huge room, surrounded by bookcases and with two tables in it—one a massive writing-table, standing in the middle of the room, and the other a round table, covered with recent numbers of reviews and journals in different languages, ranged like the rays of a star round the lamp.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Despair makes man God's judge; it is a controller of the promise, a contradictor of Christ in his large offers of mercy: and one that undertakes to make unbelief the great manager of our reason and judgment, in determining about what God can and will do for sinners.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

This last observation at least was true; and I can only hope the recording angel jotted it down as a slight set-off against the opposite column.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

Richardson and James I died in March 1625, and the enquiry seems to have been then dropped.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

"How ridiculous," answered Julia; "I don't think Mrs. Crane would thank Aunt Judy for sending pies to her house."
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

If you ask him whether Shylock was right and justified in demanding his pound of flesh, he might hesitate a moment, but after thinking it over, he would probably reply: "If Shylock had a proper contract calling for such a penalty and had lent his money on those conditions, he was entirely within his rights.
— from Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Victor Mapes

“All right,” agreed Jim, “I don’t want to be a hog.”
— from The Frontier Boys in the Sierras; Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt

Miss Walters looked very dashing, being a nice size for Romeo, but making love to one of her own sex was not such an easy task as she imagined and although it was a very fair "Romeo and Juliet," it did not make so great a mark as many of her female performances.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

Have you ever known a Christian who thought it wrong to rob a Jew?" "I do not believe that Nina would rob me.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

"Oh, don't you think Romeo and Juliet is divine?" demanded Imogene, promptly dropping the question of the bird.
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

History is replete with the helplessness of reason and judgment in dealing with these emotions.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow