when the very essence of a good portrait is, that it must be either serious or smirking, or it’s no portrait at all.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But, if strength of body be, with some show of reason, the boast of men, why are women so infatuated as to be proud of a defect? Rousseau has furnished them with a plausible excuse, which could only have occurred to a man, whose imagination had been allowed to run wild, and refine on the impressions made by exquisite senses, that they might, forsooth have a pretext for yielding to a natural appetite without violating a romantic species of modesty, which gratifies the pride and libertinism of man.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

We must therefore train the body to contentment by plain living, that it may be easily satisfied: for they that require little do not miss much; and it is no great hardship to begin with our food, and take it silently whatever it is, and not by being choleric and peevish to thrust upon ourselves and friends the worst sauce to meat, anger.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

" And Agamemnon answered, "I trust, dear Menelaus, that it may be even so, but the surgeon shall examine your wound and lay herbs upon it to relieve your pain.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I was afraid that I might, but Ethan said you would like me to call, even so."
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

—The mouth receives the food and chews it so that it may be easily swallowed.
— from Health Lessons, Book 1 by Alvin Davison

The Formula of Concord carefully and correctly defines: "Everything that is must be either substantia , that is, a self-existent essence, or accidens , that is, an accidental matter, which does not exist by itself essentially but is in another self-existent essence and can be distinguished from it."
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Yet, believing that it must be endured, she resolved upon delaying the trial only till she had taken the last, long farewell of little Rose, and then to lose no time in making arrangements for her departure.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Among the Protophyta we have some classes, as the Diatomaceæ and the Yeast-plant, in which the individuals may be either separate, or attached in groups of two, three, four, or more; other classes in which a considerable number of individual cells are united into a thread ( Conferva , Monilia ); others in which they form a net work ( Hydrodictyon ); others in which they form plates ( Ulva ); and others in which they form masses ( Laminaria , Agaricus ): all which vegetal forms, having no distinction of root, stem, or leaf, are called Thallogens .
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

On this subject I have already stated, that when a conductor is fused by a stroke of lightning, the current through it may be exceedingly small, not even sufficient to heat the conductor perceptibly, were the latter immersed in a homogeneous medium.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

This should be at least the length of the longest dimension of the garden and white that it may be easily seen.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

He has suffered much for Christ’s truth, and because he has rebuked the unchristian Papacy which strives against the freedom of Christ with its heavy burdens of human laws; and for this we are robbed of the price of our blood and sweat, that it may be expended shamefully by idle, lascivious people, whilst thirsty and sick men perish of hunger....
— from Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser

The good I received from this kind of reading some years ago, makes me indulge the hope that it may be equally serviceable now; but I would not rest here—it is a real baptism of the Holy Spirit alone which can properly qualify me for usefulness in the pulpit, and a consistent course out of it.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

I had so long been living under the influence of such teaching that it may be easily seen I was not very ready to accept any other form of doctrine.
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.