I saw a side of him I had not seen before.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

If I have received an insult, I may not be actively thinking of it all the time, yet the thought of it is in such a state of heightened irritability, that the place where I received it or the man who inflicted it cannot be mentioned in my hearing without my attention bounding, as it were, in that direction, as the imagination of the whole transaction revives.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Skadi then suspended a serpent over him in such a manner that the venom should fall on his face, drop by drop.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

The joys of sense are soon over; habit invariably destroys them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If upon any occasion he shewed any symptoms of haughtiness, it was to the cringing nobles who lavished their adulation upon him till it became fulsome.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Hans looked keenly at me, and, strange enough, for once I thought I saw a smile on his imperturbable face.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

If a single ray of satisfaction could be felt amidst such a scene of horror, it must have been when Nadir commanded the minister of the wretch who was the author of [419] this atrocity, the infamous Saadat Khan, to send, on pain of death, an inventory of his own and his master’s wealth; demanding meanwhile the two millions and a half, the original composition settled by the Nizam, from the Wazir alone.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The antique church of the twelfth century, frowning in dark stone, adds subject of high interest to the bright landscape around us.
— from The Islets of the Channel by Walter Cooper Dendy

When, pretty soon, he came along and [Pg 178] I saw the curious shape and size of him, I decided that Violet was not worthy of me.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

The idea appealed to her so immensely, that she straightway bought a packet of postcards and a number of halfpenny stamps, and sent out her invitations.
— from The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil

It was as if saints and angels were crowding after him, bowed down, indeed, beneath his awful presence, but yet glad and jubilant over the crowning of a sister spirit, and bringing the songs and sweetness of heaven itself on the rustling of their snowy wings.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

"I haven't my shoe and stocking on, have I?"
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

As this happened after we had salted our mart, it occasioned us to have a double crop of puddings, and such a show of hams in the kitchen, as was a marvel to our visitors to see.
— from The Annals of the Parish Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt

Is the voluntary system a success or has it reached its limit?
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Sir Augustus spoke of his illness.
— from The Angel by Guy Thorne