She thought her the model of all excellence, and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the consciousness of the individual there exists no standard of right and wrong under which every single circumstance giving rise to the formation of a jural judgment can be subsumed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

All went well, and the truant exhibited no signs of rebellion until they reached the wide landing which led in one direction to the girl’s bedroom, in the other to the staircase.
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

They wrote not a single commendatory word about him throughout the book, and they expressed no syllable of regret when he died in the course of the voyage.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

Their eyes met, but they exchanged no sign of recognition.
— from The Town Traveller by George Gissing

What the English newspapers said of remonstrances against his being received into the service, as far as I can learn from those who would have known it, and would have told it to me, was false, as is everything those papers say, ever did say, and ever will say.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

[127] of her womb, Jesus ; who will teach us to sing the Lord's song in a strange land, even as she sang her Magnificat ; and who will one day, when the days of our exile are over, sing with us the ever "new song" of Redemption to "Him Who loved us and washed us in His Blood."
— from Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul

We are grateful also to persons in charge of the following collections for allowing one of us (Jones) to examine Nebraskan specimens of R. megalotis in their care: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ); University of Nebraska State Museum (NSM); and U.S. National Museum (USNM).
— from Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions by B. Mursaloglu

They noticed the entrance of the commander in chief no more than if he had been an insignificant creeping reptile of the earth; no signs of recognition lighted up their features, though most or all of them must have been present at the scene of his own tortures.
— from The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 2 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William Alexander Caruthers

He could be induced to exhibit no species of remorse, and, to the obvious anger of the judge himself, stated that he had only done his duty as a Christian, in preventing this wealth from coming into the hands of an ungodly man, who would have spent it in the service of the flesh and of the devil.
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse