The man loves himself once more, he feels it—but this very new love, this new self esteem seems to him incredible.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But Antipater fell down on his face, and appealed to God and to all men for testimonials of his innocency, desiring that God would declare, by some evident signals, that he had not laid any plot against his father.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

That he should even speak to her was amazing!—but to speak with such civility, to inquire after her family!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“The time is short, Evremonde,” said the Spy, in a warning voice.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Thou art going to the wars; and whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is nobody cares.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Moreover, it was unnecessary to manufacture rigging, that of the “Speedy” having been saved entire, so that the hull only of the vessel needed to be constructed.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he come up with his tamkins [Tamkin, or tampion, the wooden stopper of a cannon placed in the muzzle to exclude water or dust.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There was so much intelligence combined with innocence, sensibility with forbearance, and seriousness with perfect good-humour, a beauty so transcendant, united to such endearing simplicity, that she hung like a pearl in the shrine of our possessions, a treasure of wonder and excellence.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our place is sufficiently established so that we need not be sensitive over trifles.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Some beauties became celebrated for the number of their toasts; some even standing toasts among certain sets.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

And Phoebe, looking up with startled eyes, saw that Mrs Dorothy had guessed her secret.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

To-morrow you shall sue to me, through him , for its confirmation, else no duke, but a simple earl, shalt thou remain.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

All the rest of the unoccupied space was crowded on this occasion with a dense mass of spectators, some of whom had been standing ever since the opening of the Court-room.—Over the end of the Hall was a gallery densely crowded.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

But the Governor forced him to admit that he had entertained the British the fall before, and that he had been invited, as he said, to join a league of the Sacs and Foxes against the whites in the early spring, and he could make no satisfactory explanation as to why he had not imparted these facts to the government, when he had been solemnly enjoined so to do.
— from The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce

And within a very short time, an influential slaveholder from the far South, who called at the Anti-Slavery Office in New York, said he had had misgivings on the subject ever since the formation of the American Society—that he saw some of our publications at the South three years ago, and is now convinced and has emancipated his slaves.
— from Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in reply to an essay on slavery and abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimké by Angelina Emily Grimké