The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative, 45 but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

She knows this, but takes it very easily; she feels that she is growing richer and more powerful, and that seems to suffice her.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

I have asked Mr. Martin what these words should mean; whereupon he told me the white horse, which indeed I might have known, was the Earl of Arundel's cognisance; and that the times were very troublesome, and plots were spoken of in the North anent the Queen of Scots, her majesty the {96} queen's cousin, who is at Chatesworth; and when he said that, all of a sudden I grew red, and my cheeks burned like two hot coals; but he took no heed, and said, 'A true servant might well wish his master out of trouble, when troubles were so rife.'
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

I have asked Mr. Martin what these words should mean; whereupon he told me the white horse, which indeed I might have known, was the Earl of Arundel's cognisance; and that the times were very troublesome, and plots were spoken of in the North anent the Queen of Scots, her majesty the queen's cousin, who is at Chatesworth; and when he said that, all of a sudden I grew red, and my cheeks burned like two hot coals; but he took no heed, and said, 'A true servant might well wish his master out of trouble, when troubles were so rife.'
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

“It had been impossible for me to warn her in time, or even to seize the traitor’s arm—I have already said so—and yet, yet her shining image gazed reproachfully at me for my cowardly delay.
— from Cleopatra — Complete by Georg Ebers

'It is,' said I, gazing ruefully at my poor Milton.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

SUTTER’S FORT, SACRAMENTO, STILL STANDS IN GOOD REPAIR, A MUTE HISTORIAN OF THE DAYS OF INDIAN RAIDS, THE OVERLAND COACH AND THE PONY EXPRESS 67 Through the broad passageways of commodious ferryboats the last link, the water link, in the transcontinental chain is forged.
— from The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department

The moon was beginning to rise, casting the magic of her pale loveliness upon the world, and, as I rolled up my sleeves, I glanced round about me with an eye that strove to take in the beauty of all things—of hedge and tree and winding road, the gloom of wood, the sheen of water, and the far, soft sweep of hill and dale.
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

From habits of gayety [pg 396] and scenes of dissipation, she became all at once, after a serious illness, grave, reserved, and melancholy.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward