For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

As I went on my way alone to-day, at the hour when the sun declineth, there met me an old woman, and she spake thus unto my soul: “Much hath Zarathustra spoken also to us women, but never spake he unto us concerning woman.”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Just as the latent dream, the fulfillment of a wish-phantasy, is first built up in the unconsciousness, but must then pass through conscious processes before, censored and approved, it can enter into the compromise construction of the manifest dream, so the ideas representing the libido in the unconscious must still contend against the power of the fore-conscious ego.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

This unexpected humanity softened me extremely; but she very soon excited my warmest indignation, by the ungrateful mention she made of the best of men, my dear and most generous benefactor.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

But the evening of November 4 arrived with this underwater mystery still unsolved.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Poor Edward drew himself up proudly and said— “I am the prince; and it ill beseemeth you that feed upon the king my father’s bounty to use me so.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Neither of these things makes a noise on being boiled or opened, and noise appeals to us more strongly than anything else, because we make so much about our own sufferings.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

I locked myself in, and took off my coat, and turned up my shirt-sleeves, and cooked my own dinner.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mr Robert is a thoroughly upright man,” said Mr Bennett, vaguely.
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard

His other attempts at epic composition are— La Corona Tragica , 384 (the Tragic Crown), or the history of the unfortunate Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland; and the Circe and Dragontea .
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

And having this upon me still, I rowed my boat into a drooping tree, overhanging a quiet nook.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Miran was a fat nerve center that gathered in all the unspoken messages scattered everywhere through the body of the Bird .
— from The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer

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— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

S`lam, if he found out that his wife had betrayed him or had suspected him and come to us, might shoot her like a dog, in a passion, and be inside the borders of the Riff in a few hours.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

Such comes not now, or who with impious strife Would seek to untenant meadow stream and plain Of that indwelling power, which is the life And which sustaineth each, which poets old As god and goddess thus have loved to feign. {62} AT SEA.
— from The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems by Richard Chenevix Trench

The movements, to the uninitiated, might seem a simple toilette operation, but were really part and parcel of the ceremony, every one having a symbolical allusion to the events of the commemoration.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell