'May I ask why so, Mr Aaron?' said Eugene, quite undisturbed in his ease.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He has scarcely made his entrance into society before he receives a second education quite unlike the first, which teaches him to despise what he esteemed, and esteem what he despised; he learns to consider the teaching of his parents and masters as the jargon of pedants, and the duties they have instilled into him as a childish morality, to be scorned now that he is grown up.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Longa via est! respondet hospes, nisi plurimum esset negoti.—Enimvero, ait peregrinus, a Nasorum promontorio redii, et nasum speciosissimum, egregiosissimumque quem unquam quisquam sortitus est, acquisivi?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Sucedió entonces que unos pescadores del Tiber cogieron un esturión y quisieron regalárselo al Sucesor de San Pedro.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

er cior um oriundi, speciales essent regis con siliarii, et semp er q ue honesta era n t et iusta
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

'T was, in truth, a study, To mark his spirit, alternating between A decent and professional gravity And an irreverent mirthfulness, which often Laughed in the face of his divinity, Plucked off the sacred ephod, quite unshrined The oracle, and for the pattern priest Left us the man.
— from Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Sic per fidem purificatur simul et quietatur, ut iam nec pœnas formidet præ gaudio remissionis peccatorum.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

[366] Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto, Et, quo unque volent, animum auditoris agunto.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

"That is the most comical putting of the case that ever I heard," said Eleanor, quite unable to retain her own gravity.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

he said earnestly, quite unnecessarily clasping the hand on his arm and wringing it to endorse his verdict.
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard