The form then of the benediction before eating has its beauty at a poor man's table, or at the simple and unprovocative repasts of children.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

It was such an unexpected revelation of all women being alike at heart, even those so different in their accessories as Fanny and this one beside him, that Troy could hardly seem to believe her to be his proud wife Bathsheba.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Since the abolition of feudalism, with the increase of the means of transportation, the larger freedom, and, at many points, improved morality, the population of Japan shows an unprecedented rate of increase.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

At any rate, if mankind is not to be led astray by such a universal rule of conduct, it behooves it to attain a knowledge of the condition of culture that will serve as a scientific standard of comparison in connection with cosmical ends.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All I intend is, that we ought to be contented with our Countenance and Shape, so far, as never to give our selves an uneasie Reflection on that Subject.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Instead of going and laying their complaint before him, they are sullen, and spread abroad unfavourable reports of this poor foreigner.
— from On Love by Stendhal

But, to be brief, the sudden and unexpected return of her father, one fatal afternoon, proved the beginning of the misery which has ever since devoured me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

How could I have brought myself to believe that anything questionable could possibly find place in the straight and upright ranks of printed letters?
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

It struck her as such an utter reversal of their former relationships, that it seemed almost to obliterate the line which lies between the sublime and the ridiculous.
— from The Missionary by George Chetwynd Griffith

To come neither eating nor drinking; to be stern, reserved, and lonely; to live apart from the homes of men, to be the severe and unflinching rebuker of other men's sins—this was not the loftiest pattern of human character.
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

His watchword was the cry of the French Revolution, liberty, equality and fraternity, to be gained, not by violence and bloodshed, but by a steady and unyielding resistance of the masses against the corrupt institutions of church and state.
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

They are certainly appreciated by the people themselves; but they are not suited to English taste, especially in the glare of a Seville sun: and unless representations of the terrible and awful events connected with our Lord's passion be depicted with the skill of a great artist, they become simply intensely painful.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Or the scholarly and urbane Robinson of Ethiopian extraction?" "Dead," said the captain.
— from The Mystery by Samuel Hopkins Adams

We therefore, inclined at the supplication and urgent request of our liegemen who are at this time assisting to us, do undertake for the coming of the said David, with twenty and nine persons of his company and retinue, in armour, David himself being in the said number , and twelve other Knights, with their Esquires, Varlets, and Pages also accounted, and with thirty horses, into our kingdom aforesaid, for the completing of the aforesaid Passage of Arms with the said John, from the sixth day of May next approaching; for the coming of the same, and for their cause of remaining, and for their going out and returning to their own parts: nevertheless upon condition, that if any of the aforesaid who may be outlaws to us or our kingdom, shall present themselves in our Kingdom aforesaid, under the colour and protection of the company of David, they shall not enter nor remain in our safe and secure conduct.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

The following is the inscription on a stone designed to perpetuate the memory of the late singular and unfortunate rector of Little Stukely, and is now exhibited in the mason's yard at Huntingdon.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 by Various

As we passed the Downs, strange and ugly rumours of trouble ahead met us.
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

Thus ended the enormities of these so-called democrats, who were in fact only the scum and unrestrained rabble of the flourishing and active city of Leghorn.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè