And such a man says, “I am fighting for the cause of humanity.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The hungry servant attended Miss Squeers in her own room according to custom, to curl her hair, perform the other little offices of her toilet, and administer as much flattery as she could get up, for the purpose; for Miss Squeers was quite lazy enough (and sufficiently vain and frivolous withal) to have been a fine lady; and it was only the arbitrary distinctions of rank and station which prevented her from being one.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Inigsáwup sa adlaw mau say isubang sa dail, The full moon rises as soon as the sun sets.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It can be realized purposely by suddenly thrusting into a long series of equidistant stimuli a much shorter interval which the observer does not expect.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

An imperfect subjunctive of action non-occurrent at the present time has occasionally the present sequence: as, mīrārēris, sī interessēs, quā patientiā valētūdinem toleret , Plin.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Duncan had not forgotten that there were on board the Flora many large and beautiful strings of beads, which had been intended for bartering with any natives they might meet, and he had stowed away many such in the balloon car.
— from Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune by Gordon Stables

20:3 Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

It contains Roman tessellated pavements; a large number of ancient terra-cotta forms, presented by the late Viscount Strangford, who brought them from the Greek isles, Egypt, and Asia Minor; two extremely interesting Runic stones found near Sandwich; and many such interesting antiquities as the “Curfew Bell” and “Couvre Feu;” and some very odd ones—for instance, the severed hand of Sir John Heydon, who was killed by Sir Robert Mansfield in a duel, anno 1600.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

Elinor's delight, as she saw what each felt in the meeting, was only checked by an apprehension of its robbing Marianne of farther sleep;—but Mrs. Dashwood could be calm, could be even prudent, when the life of a child was at stake, and Marianne, satisfied in knowing her mother was near her, and conscious of being too weak for conversation, submitted readily to the silence and quiet prescribed by every nurse around her.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In the daytime, when she moved about me, In the night, when she was sleeping at my side,— I was wearied, I was wearied of her presence.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

[146] SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER SINGERS I SONG
— from The Book of Joyous Children by James Whitcomb Riley

This, in Luke, was almost meaningless to me, but it had been full of meaning in Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians, where the apostle spoke about meat sold in Gentile markets: “If an unbeliever invites you, and ye desire to accept, eat everything that is served up to you, asking no questions .”
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott

“You are likely to leave it in a way you do not imagine,” said a man, springing in at the opening.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850 by Various

For, though, strictly speaking, a metaphysical speculation, it has always been prefixed as a sort of preface to the Organon (or logical treatises) of Aristotle, and has thus accidentally shared in the immortality conceded to that most perfect of human works.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey