A tall young man, smoking a cigarette with a sublime air, strolled near the girl.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

They smiled and said: “No, this is a false one which the Princess has given you.”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

And of he rente al to his bare sherte; And seyde, `Nece, but ye helpe us now, 1100 Allas, your owne Troilus is lorn!' `Y-wis, so wolde I, and I wiste how, Ful fayn,' quod she; `Allas!
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

I. e., thin, airy, spiritual, and so not occupying space.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Pandare, which that stood hir faste by, 1275 Felte iren hoot, and he bigan to smyte, And seyde, `Nece, I pray yow hertely, Tel me that I shal axen yow a lyte: A womman, that were of his deeth to wyte, With-outen his gilt, but for hir lakked routhe, 1280 Were it wel doon?'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The whole mode of thought of the modern world is, with increasing emphasis, pronouncing against the claim of society to decide for individuals what they are and are not fit for, and what they shall and shall not be allowed to attempt.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The Sense, possessing a purely mechanical structure, a structure not differing in kind from that of the vegetable,—both being alike entirely conditioned by the law of cause and effect,—perceives phenomena.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Meanwhile, Mr. Winkle flashed, and blazed, and smoked away, without producing any material results worthy of being noted down; sometimes expending his charge in mid-air, and at others sending it skimming along so near the surface of the ground as to place the lives of the two dogs on a rather uncertain and precarious tenure.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

We soon came to Georgia, where we were to complete our lading; and here worse fate than ever attended me: for one Sunday night, as I was with some negroes in their master's yard in the town of Savannah, it happened that their master, one Doctor Perkins, who was a very severe and cruel man, came in drunk; and, not liking to see any strange negroes in his yard, he and a ruffian of a white man he had in his service beset me in an instant, and both of them struck me with the first weapons they could get hold of.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

The onely precept that a traueller hath most vse of, and shall finde most ease in, is that of Epicharchusy Vigila & memor sis ne quid credos ; Beleeue nothing, trust no man: yet seeme thou as thou swallowedst all, suspectedst none, but wert easie to be gulled by euery one.
— from The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Thomas Nash

The communication is always effected by gesture or tones of barking, and the ideas are always of such a simple nature as that of a mere 'follow me.'
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

Certainly there was something, a faint indeterminate sound, a sound not in the bush but in the lake, a sound of disturbed water.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

They were entitled to supply Negroes, in such and such number, annually to the Spanish Plantations; and besides this delightful branch of trade, to have the privilege of selling certain quantities of their manufactured articles on those coasts; quantities regulated briefly by this stipulation, That their Assiento Ship was to be of 600 tons burden, so many and no more.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

Nature’s laws and methods, the hidden secrets and mysteries of the universe, human inventions and discoveries, all our scientific acquisitions should naturally remain concealed and unknown, but man through his intellectual acumen searches them out of the plane of the invisible, draws them into the plane of the visible, exposes and explains them.
— from Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

"I shall go away," she said, a sudden note of recklessness in her voice.
— from The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

And near it came nor care nor pain; But now, like that same tender tree, When once rude hands its fruit profane, Ill-omen'd birds and shapes of ill Troop to its branches, crowding still,— And sorrows never known till now Have cast their shadows on my brow: A ruin is my heart become Where brooding sadness finds a home; See—those bright leaves fall, one by one, And I—my latest hopes are gone!"
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

“I shall be strictly accurate,” said Newman.
— from The American by Henry James