It's time surely, and I a seemly fellow with great strength in me and bravery of...
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

On the part of the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the I so swollen that it bars the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, impure and simple ignorance.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And they really seem to have had these sentiments: as, in general, it is to be observed that the Platonic discrimination and valuation of the "idea" in contrast to the "eidolon," the image, is deeply rooted in the Hellenic being.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Up, though not so early this summer as I did all the last, for which I am sorry, and though late am resolved to get up betimes before the season of rising be quite past.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

All their science and intelligence could avail them nothing in their present position.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

By my faith he would not have gone without a slap on the croup and something said in his praise; though if he were here I would not let anyone strip him, for there would be no occasion, as he had nothing of the lover or victim of despair about him, inasmuch as his master, which I was while it was God’s pleasure, was nothing of the sort; and indeed, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, if my departure and your worship’s madness are to come off in earnest, it will be as well to saddle Rocinante again in order that he may supply the want of Dapple, because it will save me time in going and returning: for if I go on foot I don’t know when I shall get there or when I shall get back, as I am, in truth, a bad walker.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Name the sum, and I will pay it.” “No, the debt is not to me.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He always signed his name "Henery"—strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to—in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I do not mean, therefore, that Frederica's acquirements should be more than superficial, and I flatter myself that she will not remain long enough at school to understand anything thoroughly.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

And indeed, did the success of their designs depend upon their success in correcting the selfishness and ingratitude of men, they would never make any progress, unless aided by omnipotence, which is alone able to new-mould the human mind, and change its character in such fundamental articles.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

With this suggestion of outline, and the universal principles of the style, simplicity and dignity and absence of great ornamentation, the untechnical traveller may distinguish the Romanesque of the South, and if he be akin to the traveller who tells these Cathedral tales, the interest and fascination which the old architecture awakes, will lead him to discover for himself the many differences which are evident between the ascetic strength of the one, and the splendour and brilliance of the other.
— from Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

A further argument I used was that where there exist different castes among the neuter-ants, as those seen in the soldiers and workers of the Driver ants of West Africa, "they graduate insensibly into each other" alike in their sizes and in their structures; and that Professor Weismann's hypothesis implies a special set of "determinants" for each intermediate form.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

With him, as with many bad men, to suspect an injury, and to nourish the purpose of revenge, was one and the same movement.
— from The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

246, v. 153 f., 474, vi. 335 , 437, n. ; worship of the S., abuses in, i. 46, 361; assailed by Erasmus, ii. 245; L.’s attitude, iv.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“I trust, sir,” answered I, “that I could bear it, not only cheerfully, but thankfully; and I now acknowledge that it is good for me that I have been in trouble.”
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

Sadie helped him—Sadie was my friend—but Sadie had not much to say about it, for he seemed to know just how to arrange it all so that no one at the seminary should know or even suspect what had occurred till we got ready to tell them.
— from The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair by Anna Katharine Green

The existing condition of things establishes me more firmly in the opinion, day by day, that I am right in taking this step, and it will prove the sincerity of my sentiments to the empire and to the whole world.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

‘One virtue missing,’ he said, ‘and the Spiritual Angel is like a broken pearl.’
— from Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac

From Labrador to St Augustine in Florida, and Kentucky, during autumn.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon