“A Greek at last presented himself; and with him I worked a long time uselessly upon nails made of cinnabar or vermilion.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The sun shone brightly; as brightly as if it looked upon no misery or care; and, with every leaf and flower in full bloom about her; with life, and health, and sounds and sights of joy, surrounding her on every side: the fair young creature lay, wasting fast.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

“Seest thou no dream of unbelief, no murmur of complaint hath entered that heart; anguish may wither up the swelling hymn, may check the voice of love, but faith is there !
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

It was with a heavy-heart that I performed my usual tasks that evening; and, before I could summon courage to relate my trouble to uncle Nathan, Mr. Oswald called, and himself acquainted him with the matter.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell

You see that you are under no manner of compliment to me.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

He must travel far out on the wide prairie to care for the ranchers who are setting up homes in these lands that under new methods of cultivation are proving to be far more fruitful than it was once considered possible for them to be.
— from Brother Van by Stella Wyatt Brummitt

"A Greek at last presented himself; and with him I worked a long time uselessly upon nails, made of cinabar, or vermilion.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay

Sodeur (“Luther und die Lüge”) says that in his teaching on lies Luther led the way to “a more profound understanding of the problem” (p. 2), he taught us “to act according to simple and fundamental principles”; “under certain conditions” it became “a duty to tell untruths, not merely on casuistic grounds as formerly [!], but on principle; Luther harked back to the all embracing duty of charity which constitutes the moral life of the Christian” (p. 30); he desired “falsehood to be used only to the advantage of our neighbour,” “referring our conduct in every instance to the underlying principle of charity” (p. 32 f.).
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The entire male population thus devoted to works of constraint, nothing else in prospect for either the cultivated or the uncultivated, no military or civil career other than a prolonged guard duty, threatened and threatening, as soldier, customs-inspector, or gendarme, as prefect, sub-prefect, or commissioner of police, that is to say, as subaltern henchman and bully restraining subjects and raising contributions, confiscating and burning merchandise, seizing grumblers, and making the refractory toe the mark.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

"Of which, however, they can tell us nothing?" "Memory, of course, is lost.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

He himself had spent many sleepless nights trying to plan some way of extending its business; of opening up new markets; of creating a wide new patronage; of manufacturing something which would bring in more profits than their regular line, and finding a successful Page 304 sale for it.
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb