“In fact, Miss Andrews, the heart of man is supposed to be incomplete until he has lost it, and has succeeded in getting another for his very—” p. 137 “Are you an admirer of Max Nordau?” interposed Marguerite, quickly.
— from A Rebellious Heroine by John Kendrick Bangs

He's fierce on it, and looks pistols at any one that attempts putting his comether on the widow, while she looks "as soon as you plaze," as plain as an optical lecture can enlighten the heart of man: in short, Tom's all ram's horns, and the widow all sheep's eyes.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

It is better to hang one murderer in sixteen, twenty-two, thirty-eight than not to hang any at all.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

And when he came to me the next day in the theatre and would put my shawl around me, a terror took hold of me; I saw that my father wanted me to look pleased.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

But the Heart of Man is such: Therefore, &c. [51] But the Apostle Paul describeth the Condition of Men in the Fall at large, taking it out of the Psalmist .
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

In the history of music it seems to be a rule almost without exceptions, that the works of genius are greeted with contumely.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes

He hardly gave weight enough to the feeling that the eldest son was the eldest son, and too little to the triumph which was present to his own mind in saving the property for one of the family.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

For two hours or more I sat there beside the pine thicket, while the chickadees came and went.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

By th' Helme of Mars , I saw them in the War, Like to a pair of Lions, smear'd with prey, Make lanes in troops agast.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

Cardoile, which latter, in the History of Merlin, is said to be in Wales, whilst elsewhere Wales and Cumberland are confounded in like manner.
— from On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire And Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations. by Charles Hardwick