A thousand spots with which I was enraptured he rejected without hesitation, for reasons which satisfied me, in the end, that he was right.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.—
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

I have occasionally been tempted to think he is, especially when he talks about having his throat cut at night; but he has always shown me in the end that he has in him a vein of strong common sense.
— from The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

The monks rose in an uproar; some raised a clamour in their caves, some from the tops of their pillars; one, in the church of St. Mammas, insulted the emperor to his face, denouncing him as a second apostate Julian.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Ever since that visit to Uncle Richard's fans she had suspected him of other appreciations and enthusiasms, perhaps she might in time encourage those hidden things in him.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

"What ought I to do?" "Hang your horsewhip on its hook and avoid in every way making a scandal, in which no one suffers more in the end than he at whose expense the whole spectacle is performed, I mean the husband.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

He had more than once attempted to reply with worldly arguments, but had suffered so much in the encounter that he had learned to abstain.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

He was an easy and expert swimmer, and delighted so much in the element, that he would swim and float from one to two or three hours at a time.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various