Margaret covered her up, and left her, for she had an uneasy consciousness that she might be wanted at home, and yet, until now, it seemed cruel to leave the dying girl.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But Experience has told us, nothing is so fallacious as this outward Sign of Sorrow; and the natural History of our Bodies will teach us that this Flux of the Eyes, this Faculty of Weeping, is peculiar only to some Constitutions.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

[641] “Judæi mente solâ, unumque numen intelligunt, summum illud et eternum, neque mutabile, neque interiturum.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Clearly the case of what is unjust is similar: for doing things in themselves unjust is not identical with acting unjustly, nor is suffering them the same as being unjustly dealt with.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Sin erunt merita, ut non ineunda, sed referenda sit gratia, maior quaedam cura adhibenda est; nullum enim officium referenda gratia magis necessarium est.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

All along you’ve thought me too umble now, I shouldn’t wonder?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

whose mind is always so upon its guard that nothing can befall him which is unforeseen, nothing which is unexpected, nothing, in short, which is new.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Way sakit ang unlan nga ikartabun sa ū́, A pillow does not hurt if you strike the head with it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The head of uninterrupted navigation is seven hundred and seventy-seven miles from its mouth.
— from Elsie's Winter Trip by Martha Finley

Then she made another for Africa, then another for Japan, until now, in six years, she has given four hundred dollars to home and foreign missions, and has six people at work as her substitutes in foreign lands.
— from The Art of Soul-Winning by J. W. (John Wilmot) Mahood

“Coming to fetch us now, I suppose, Mas’ Don,” said Jem.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

I must wait until nine, I suppose?
— from A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr

I had a shrewd impression that if I were to go upstairs now I should not find her in the same place.
— from When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

The conversation here turned upon Nature, in some way which I do not now recollect, and Mr. Alcott spoke of the great mission of the prophet of nature.
— from Concord Days by Amos Bronson Alcott

[Illustration] In the heat of our good-natered conversation Mary had slipped her hand through my arm and neither of us noticed it, so wropped up wuz we in the topics under discussion, when I hearn Blandina's voice behind me sayin', "Oh, what a noble lookin' man Aunt Samantha is talkin' to and how affectionate actin'; how sweet it will be to meet him."
— from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

Oh—I understand now, I see what you mean.
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

“Umph! nameless individual, sir—nameless [446] individual, indeed!
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

My seventh is in ugly, not in sinner.
— from Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various