This unfortunate man, at a period when all his intellectual faculties were in full vigour, fancied that his rational soul had gradually succumbed under divine displeasure, and that he solely enjoyed an animal life in common with brutes.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

“Yes, I promise that also,” said Uncle David dryly, and to himself he thought, “What a consummate old scoundrel!”
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu