One shudders, when one thinks of the amount of unhappiness that these base spirits have every day to swallow—and doubtless there is but one grain less of cowardice between them and a poisoner.
— from On Love by Stendhal

I have the servants to overlook, and my little Arthur to attend to,—and my own health too, all of which would be entirely neglected were I to satisfy his exorbitant demands.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Mercédès was much changed within the last few days; not that even in her days of fortune she had ever dressed with the magnificent display which makes us no longer able to recognize a woman when she appears in a plain and simple attire; nor indeed, had she fallen into that state of depression where it is impossible to conceal the garb of misery; no, the change in Mercédès was that her eye no longer sparkled, her lips no longer smiled, and there was now a hesitation in uttering the words which formerly sprang so fluently from her ready wit.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"Oh! as to being Anne's acquaintance," said Mary, "I think he is rather my acquaintance, for I have been seeing him every day this last fortnight.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

From then on Sola instructed me in the mysteries of the various weapons, and with the Martian young I spent several hours each day practicing upon the plaza.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He did not trust her, and when she was long away he could not sleep, was worried, and at the same time he despised his wife, and her bed, and her looking-glass, and her boxes of sweets, and the hyacinths, and the lilies of the valley which were sent her every day by some one or other, and which diffused the sickly fragrance of a florist's shop all over the house.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Oh what a war of looks was then between them, Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing, 356 His eyes saw her eyes, as they had not seen them, Her eyes woo’d still, his eyes disdain’d the wooing: And all this dumb play had his acts made plain With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is a remarkable fact, that two such characters as Bacon and Galileo should appear on the stage at the same time, who, without any communication with each other, or perhaps without any personal knowledge of each other's existence, should have each developed the true method of investigating the laws of Nature.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

And Stanley Moncrief suffered through me, and through me all the school has eaten dirt.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

All these authorities exercised despotic power, and certainly ill-treated and robbed their own countrymen who did not desire to join them, far more than the Spaniards have ever done in the worst of times.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

For, at this moment, though any thing but happy himself, he was working some hours every day for the good of mankind; and was every day visiting as a friend the battered saw-grinder who had once put his own life in mortal peril.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

This morning on her rounds she had expected developments of some kind, owing to the presence of Roy Beeman and two of his brothers, who had arrived yesterday.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

"When Heavy is free from the scholastic yoke, and bosses her father's house for good," said Helen, "every dinner will make old Luculus turn in his grave and groan with envy——" 184 "Or with indigestion," snapped Mercy.
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson

For two years that she hath been my companion on such occasions, she has each day prepared for martyrdom by such devout exercises as strengthen the soul at the approach of death.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

Still another society of women keeps on hand stocks of clothing for the needy, its members sewing for this purpose several hours each day.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

He said his education did not help him to get saved, but was only a hindrance, and got between him and God.
— from Trials and Triumphs of Faith by Mary Cole