The smell of used pizza was overwhelming at first, but as with all strong stimuli, my brain gradually grew accustomed to it, filtered it out until it was just a faint aroma.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

He heard the bell of dinner ring without stirring; and when some of us pulled out our private stores—our cold meat and our salads—he produced none, and seemed to want none.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Thus "the unconscious" becomes a sort of underground prisoner, living in a dungeon, breaking in at long intervals upon our daylight respectability with dark groans and maledictions and strange atavistic lusts.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Every former profession of public spirit is to be considered as a debauch of youth, or, at best, as a visionary scheme of unattainable perfection.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

She colored with surprise, but put out her hand with a smile of unmistakable pleasure, saying— "I did not know it was you: I had no thought of seeing you here.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

On one occasion, when he went down to the seaside on some business connected with Greece, a Persian named Epixyes, Satrap of Upper Phrygia, plotted his assassination.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Il y a tant de livres là-dessus, répondre en quelques lignes est une gageure ou une marque de mépris ou un manque de sérieux ou une preuve d'inconscience ou une manifestation d'orgueil… = Et la société de l'information?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

My fellow citizens, trade statistics indicate that this country is in a state of unexampled prosperity.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Irving had just completed his “Sketch-Book,” which was basking in the full sunshine of unqualified popularity.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

If we compare them we shall find that, notwithstanding many differences, the notion of action in general involves a “simple” or “unmixed” perfection which can, without anthropomorphism, be applied analogically to the Divine Action.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

But with all this there were still certain gaps in his elegance; a vague suspicion of uncleanliness persisting underneath, the old filth of the ex-professor fallen from the Bordeaux Lycée to the Paris Bourse, his skin penetrated, stained by the dirt in which he had lived for ten years; so that, amid the arrogant assurance of his new fortune, he still frequently evinced base humility, making himself very small and humble in the sudden fear of receiving some kick from behind, as in former times.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

The Atlas was similar to the other games parlor where Alan had had the set-to with the robohuckster; it was dark-windowed and a shining blue robot stood outside, urging passersby to step inside and try their luck.
— from Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg

The account is paid; but nevertheless, Thomas Oetzmann continues a system of unjustifiable persecution, at once unmanly and cowardly; he has been to our tradesmen and made gross misrepresentations; he has been to our Halls and disturbed our meetings, p. 9 and guilty of such conduct as any honest man would be ashamed of.
— from The Marylebone Penny Readings and Their Critics by Henry Taylor

Bailly, the Mayor of Paris, that preparations were making at the Queen's residence for a departure; and that the dressing-case was already sent off, under pretence of its being presented to the Archduchess Christina.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 6 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

A Corkman in Dublin will have friends in all sorts of unlikely places.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland by Katharine Tynan