She listened at the nursery door when I was shut in with the children; she followed me at a cautious distance when I walked out with them, stealing within ear-shot whenever the trees of park or boulevard afforded a sufficient screen: a strict preliminary process having thus been observed, she made a move forward.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Peu de gens sont assez sages pour préférer le blame qui leur est utile, à la louange qui les trahit —Few people are wise enough to prefer censure which may be useful, to flattery which may betray them.
— 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.

Did not the Palais-Royal in its late nocturnal 'violent motions,' set a specific price ( place of payment not mentioned ) on each of your heads?—With precautions, with the aid of pieces of cannon and regiments that can be depended on, Messeigneurs, between the 16th night and the 17th morning, get to their several roads.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Deponents have rarely -mino , in the imperative singular: as, second person, prōgredimino , step forward thou (Plaut.); in laws, as third person: FRVIMINO , let him enjoy ; or -tō and -ntō for -tor and -ntor : as, ūtitō , let him use ; ūtuntō , let them use .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

SYN: Augury, sign, presage, portent, forboding, prognostic, [See PRESAGE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The black fellow having retired, I turned to Monsieur de Magny and said, ‘Chevalier, the first packet contains a letter from you to me, declaring your solvency, and solemnly promising payment of the sums you owe me; it is accompanied by a document from myself (for I expected some resistance on your part), stating that my honour has been called in question, and begging that the paper may be laid before your august master his Highness.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

" Wrestling was exhibited by them, and the prizes were gloves at two shillings and sixpence per pair.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

So also St. Paul professes himself to be “not meet to be called an apostle” (1 Cor.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

These correspond mystically to the human Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, known as the Mânushi (Human) Buddhas, which latter are also designated Anupâdaka, once that their whole personality is merged in their compound Sixth and Seventh Principles, [pg 083] or Âtmâ-Buddhi, and they have become the “Diamond-Souled” (Vajrasattvas 78 ), or full Mahâtmâs.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was—Heavens!—Was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles?
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

There was a slight movement among the soldiers, a scarcely perceptible pause, and then the tramp, tramp, tramp as before.
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir