Turning into Cheapside and rattling up Newgate Street, we were soon under the walls of which I was so ashamed.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

ommittal of their responses.-- Un Normand , says the proverb, a son dit et son détit.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Nil admirari prope est res una, Numici, / Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum —To wonder at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one and only thing which can make and keep men happy.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Adeo humidis oculis meus inhabitat Asylus omnem formam ad se rapiens, ut nulla satietate expleatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Those who do believe in men, who know what black men have done in human history, who have taken pains to follow even superficially the story of the rise of the Negro in Africa, the West Indies, and the Americas of our day know that our modern contempt of Negroes rests upon no scientific foundation worth a moment's attention.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Frey's attendant was named Skirnir; him Niord desired to speak with Frey; when Skadi said:— 1. Rise up now, Skirnir!
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

With sweet patience did she bear her pain, without a word of complaint; and rummaged up numberless small subjects for conversation—all except the riot, and that she never named once.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

On the contrary, if there is delay, he will grow so corrupt that he will infect us too and contaminate all the fresh forces which one might still reckon upon now, so that we shall all at last come to grief together.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

KIRSTY'S SONG Marker CHAPTER I A RUNAWAY RACE Upon neighbouring stones, earth-fast, like two islands of an archipelago, in an ocean of heather, sat a boy and a girl, the girl knitting, or, as she would have called it, weaving a stocking, and the boy, his eyes fixed on her face, talking with an animation that amounted almost to excitement.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald

Although of obscure derivation, it is at least sufficiently ascertained that it is of pure Slavic origin; glorious associations are attached to it; it is moreover still a living name, while the learned appellation of Illyrians , formerly more in use, is dead; and that of Bosnians , preferred by some Dalmatian writers, rests upon no satisfactory grounds.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

All the fear, indignation, horror, sympathy, and wild appeal for help that had arisen helplessly in her throat and yet remained unuttered, now seemed to thrill through her fingers and the tightened rope, and broke into frantic voice in the clanging metal above her.
— from A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

But the Russells were away and did not return until night, so that we were unable to proceed until the following morning.
— from The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

Though the story seems to rest upon no solid historical foundation, it is curious to note that two portraits of this Royal favourite are preserved in the Provost’s Lodge.
— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

Liberty has united the country and there is more real union, national sentiment to-day, North and South, than ever before.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

But it rankled, uncle Nate says it did, it rankled deep.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

He fairly ran up Nassau Street with a feeling as though someone was after him.
— from Princeton Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams

Head lowered, he ran, uttering no sound.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune