Similarly we attribute Justice, if a man has a settled habit of weighing diverse claims and fulfilling them in the ratio of their importance; Good Faith if he has a settled habit of strictly keeping express or tacit engagements: and so forth.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

"Are you mad, my friend?" said he; "or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you?
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Are you mad, my friend?” said he, “or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you?
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I proceeded: Is not a Sophist, Hippocrates, one who deals wholesale or retail in the food of the soul?
— from Protagoras by Plato

The majority of them settled here, others were dispersed over different countries.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The bishop having promised that he would most willingly grant his request, not long after the man of God composed himself to sleep, and saw a consoling vision, which took from him all anxiety concerning the aforesaid uneasiness; and, moreover, showed him on what day he was to end his life.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

] GRASSOU (Madame Pierre), born Virginie Vervelle; red-haired and homely; sole heiress of wealthy dealers in cork, on rue Boucherat. Wife of the preceding whom she married in Paris in 1832.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

And after this, let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Let Mr. Francis run up the balance before you shut the account; he loves you, I am sure; and when he puts down his filial obedience to the per contra, I am sure his objections will disappear.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott

If you can imagine that,—imagine that there are women who have never seen how other women dress or do their hair, and young men who have met not a single person of the opposite sex beyond their own mother and sisters; whose stores are brought to them by bullock-waggon or team from a far-distant town, having themselves never even seen a shop-window; who receive no letters because there is nobody to write them; who would not know if the whole of Europe were convulsed with war because they see no papers; who have no knowledge, no aspirations, no hope, simply because they see no outside person whose life they may compare with their own—if you can imagine this, I say, and all that it means, then you may realize a little what true loneliness is.
— from On the Wallaby Through Victoria by Elinor Mordaunt

Or if by His own skill, how or whence derived, or of what nature?
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Narrow streets, squalid houses, old women dozing on the doorsteps, mothers carefully inspecting their children's heads, gaping dogs, crowing cocks, ragged boys running and shouting, and the other things that one always sees in the suburbs; but in those streets nothing more.
— from Spain, v. 2 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

His hand rested on the bough of an apple tree: she could see on his palm a peculiar red mark, a birth-mark, which she had often watched darken or fade.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

Looking northwards from the point, the first hundred yards has ninety square houses of wattled daub; a ruin (a mosque) has been built of lime and coral.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone