I ought to have replied that it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is of little consequence, or something of that sort.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The messenger turned around quietly and came back and told the other animals.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

With the same ease can it be demonstrated, that the possibility of things as quantities, and consequently the objective reality of the category of quantity, can be grounded only in external intuition, and that by its means alone is the notion of quantity appropriated by the internal sense.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As you may gather, from his razor, my servant is a barber: let him shave your heads and eyebrows, too, and quickly at that!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Ang pirmi nílang kagubtan mau ang kwarta, Money is what they always quarrel about.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When Sancho discovered he could not find the book his face grew deadly pale, and in great haste he again felt his body all over, and seeing plainly it was not to be found, without more ado he seized his beard with both hands and plucked away half of it, and then, as quick as he could and without stopping, gave himself half a dozen cuffs on the face and nose till they were bathed in blood.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

the two first reside on the inlet and the others on the bayau and island.—observed a speceies of small wild onion growing among the moss on the rocks, they resemble the shives of our gardens and grow remarkably close together forming a perfect turf; they are quite as agreeably flavoured as the shives.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A train went through a burial gate, A bird broke forth and sang, And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

The bray of a lazy burro broke the afternoon quiet, and it was comfortingly suggestive of the drowsy farmyard, and the open corrals, and the green alfalfa fields.
— from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

Brief Summary After a little consideration I am inclined to think there are quite as many authentic cases of hauntings by the phantasms of horses as by the phantasms of cats and dogs.
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

I couldn’t hardly get my words out, I was so anxious; but I told Tom as quick as I could we must jump for it now, and not a minute to lose—the house full of men, yonder, with guns!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The basis of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion—thus: Major Premise : Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
— from The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce

"I thought maybe you might like to ask questions about 'em," he concluded.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

A pint's mostly enough to do it; but sometimes it takes a quart; and once or twice I've had to go on till somebody's had to help me home.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

Then, as quickly as it came, the look might vanish; even if it flickered on, the briefest interval of repose brought back again the watchful, dispassionate, hardened regard.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

We soon had her afloat, and then as quickly as we could, running backwards and forwards, put the cargo on board.
— from Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

Those cases of hives that appear quickly after chilling the skin are perfect analogues of hay fever, appearing in response to the local irritation of odors and dust.
— from The Treatment of Hay Fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity With a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis by George Frederick Laidlaw