[Note 16: Apropos of this somewhat ungallant sentiment, a Russian scholiast remarks:—"The whole of this ironical stanza is but a refined eulogy of the excellent qualities of our countrywomen.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

And in the morning they came to worship, and found me sitting up stiff and respectable on their previous god, just as they'd left me overnight.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Because they set up such a roar, And teased the harmless Black-a-moor.
— from Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann

Such unselfish spirits are rare; in life they are often misunderstood, but when time does them justice, they come into a fame which endures.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

If a chief imposed a fine, it was paid because the people universally dreaded his ghostly power, and firmly believed that he could inflict calamity and sickness upon such as resisted him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

when Miss Barker died, their profits and income were found to be such that Miss Betty was justified in shutting up shop and retiring from business.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

When little Hal, the Captain's son, A lad both brave and good, In sport, up shroud and rigging ran, And on the main truck stood!
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Beaten, bloody, and above all terrified, the wretched slave sat on the sand for a while, rubbed his eyes, then sprang up suddenly and ran groaning toward the highway, "Swallow me, O earth!
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

In some upper stratum, a rushing, swirling river of the winds caught the dirigible in its grasp and
— from Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio by Hugh McAlister

And, indeed, the entire body of soldiers, although they give no outward sign, and seem utterly submissive, are really in the same state of mind.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In Calcutta the majority of the individuals of Spongilla carteri that are found in summer have their external surface unusually smooth and rounded, and contain in their parenchyma numerous cells the protoplasm of which is gorged with liquid.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

" Suddenly she sat up straight and rigid, and her head struck the trunk of the orange-tree.
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

Tail variable in length and shape, usually short and rounded, cuneate and with fourteen feathers in H. pelagicus , and nearly even, and with twelve feathers, in H. macei , the rest all having twelve feathers, varying in form with the species.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The judge sat up suddenly and rubbed his eyes.
— from The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Mary E. Hanshew

There are spiritual uses, such as regard love to God and love towards our neighbour; there are moral and civil uses, such as regard the love of the society and state to which a man belongs, and of his fellow-citizens among whom he lives; there are natural uses, which regard the love of the world and its necessities; and there are corporeal uses, such as regard the love of self-preservation with a view to superior uses.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg