No one in the room can see them, and there is no scar where they take out the heart, but yet there is no heart left in the body.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

‘Well, I couldn’t help saying, miss, if you was to kill me for it,’ said the attendant, ‘that I never see nobody look so vulgar as Miss Price this night.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Suppose that all that is necessary so far as explanation of doctrine is concerned is contained in the New Testament, we are then confronted with man's inability to understand what has been revealed without the light of revelation to guide the human mind in understanding and applying the truth.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

The fifteenth century believed, as we have said, everything that is cruel and horrible, as indeed the vulgar mind does at all ages; but such brutal imaginings have seldom any truth to support them, and there is no such suggestion in the actual record.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The colors of the best Daghestans are so well selected, that although there is no shading there is seldom anything aggressive or startling in the effect.
— from Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Rosa Belle Holt

There is nothing so masterly as inactivity in some things, and there is nothing so hurtful as restless working, for God has undertaken to work His sovereign will.
— from Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

He had the spirit to answer, that "it neither suited his station nor his character to play the part of an executioner."
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott