The proposal was a good one, so it was accepted, although Padre Salvi and Don Custodio showed some repugnance.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Now if a weak judgment and a strong apprehension do concur, how, saith Hercules de Saxonia, shall they resist?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Thus the good lady suffers from an " obsession of jealousy " that is surely a distinctive characterization for this pathological case.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Such a doctrine cannot contradict: it doesn’t know that other doctrines exist, or can exist, and is wholly incapable of imagining anything opposed to it....
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

His nomination had been ratified by the consent of Licinius; and that artful prince, by the means of his emissaries, soon contrived to enter into a secret and dangerous correspondence with the new Caesar, to irritate his discontents, and to urge him to the rash enterprise of extorting by violence what he might in vain solicit from the justice of Constantine.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

420 `For al-so seur as day cometh after night, The newe love, labour or other wo, Or elles selde seinge of a wight, Don olde affecciouns alle over-go.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

She was always shy and dreaded conversations or discussions.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But his murmurings against destiny must be discounted by the fact that Glinka, the spoilt and delicate child, grew up into Glinka, the idolised and hypochondriacal man.
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch

"She is a charming girl,—we had such a delightful chat after you left, and I thank you for presenting me, but not another word about her until I give you permission."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Here and there, both North and South, a discerning critic recognized in the poet "a lively, delicate fancy, and a graceful beauty of expression."
— from Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

And for thy meed, sith I am queen of riches, Shepherd, I will reward thee with great monarchies, Empires, and kingdoms, heaps of massy gold, Sceptres and diadems curious to behold, Rich robes, of sumptuous workmanship and cost, And thousand things whereof
— from The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

The colour by which some stars are distinguished could not have failed to be remarked by those observers who first began to enumerate, or take census of, the celestial bodies.
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

The Duke being absent, and the Duchess, too, she and Defasquelle could work safely in the study.
— from The Great Pearl Secret by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

They played slowly and doubtfully, counted carefully, and made mistakes all the same.
— from Pan by Knut Hamsun

And the third thing to-night is this, that though thy sin be very great, though thou hast a past life round thy neck enough to sink thee for ever out of the sight of God and all good men; a youth of sensuality now long and closely cloaked over with an after life of worldly prosperity, worldly decency, and worldly religion, all which only makes thee that whited sepulchre that Christ has in His eye when He speaks of thee with such a severe and dreadful countenance; yet if thou confess thyself to be all the whited sepulchre He sees thee to be, and yet knock at His gate in all thy rags and slime, He will immediately lay aside that severe countenance and will show thee all His goodwill.
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

She thinks me such a delightful creature that she is never easy without me.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser