How is it to be supposed that Willoughby, persuaded as he must be of your sister's love, should leave her, and leave her perhaps for months, without telling her of his affection;—that they should part without a mutual exchange of confidence?" "I confess," replied Elinor, "that every circumstance except ONE is in favour of their engagement; but that ONE is the total silence of both on the subject, and with me it almost outweighs every other.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

To be mistaken in the fundamental problem of "man and woman," to deny here the profoundest antagonism and the necessity for an eternally hostile tension, to dream here perhaps of equal rights, equal training, equal claims and obligations: that is a TYPICAL sign of shallow-mindedness; and a thinker who has proved himself shallow at this dangerous spot—shallow in instinct!—may generally be regarded as suspicious, nay more, as betrayed, as discovered; he will probably prove too "short" for all fundamental questions of life, future as well as present, and will be unable to descend into ANY of the depths.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

These all returned, except the elder Combs, either with the troops or after their arrival, and before I left.
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

If any one had told the late Francisque Sarcey, or the late Clement Scott, that a play could be made out of this slender material, which should hold an audience absorbed through four acts, and stir them to real enthusiasm, these eminent critics would have thought him a madman.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

This remark extends to every case and every sphere of legitimate transference of a higher authority, even though the latter be of a divine origin.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

The note was written, and in it a regret expressed that Eloise could not have seen her.
— from The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes

In the subject of a river embankment the eye comes abruptly against its upper line, which is an accented one, and from this dives off into the fathomless space of the sky, no intermediate object giving a hint of anything existing between that and the horizon.
— from Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

From strangely unpromising beginnings, he grew with every emergency, and rose equal to every crisis.
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

To be mistaken in this fundamental problem of “man and woman,” to deny here the profoundest antagonism, and the necessity for an eternally hostile tension, to dream here of equal rights, equal training, equal claims and obligations: that is a typical sign of shallow-mindedness.
— from Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant

Though she could not see anything distinctly, she seemed to see; for she knew every inch of the road, every tree, every curve of the upstretching hills; and they all seemed to welcome her.
— from Just a Girl by Charles Garvice

He built successively three pillars, the last being sixty feet high and scarcely two cubits in circumference, and on this pillar, during thirty years, he remained exposed to every change of climate, ceaselessly and rapidly bending his body in prayer almost to the level of his feet.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky