The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In general, I board with the people downstairs, who are very agreeable people indeed.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance in any other employment, than that to which he has been bred.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

There are virtuous and peaceful individuals whose pure morality, quiet habits, affluence, and talents fit them to be the leaders of the surrounding population; their love of their country is sincere, and they are prepared to make the greatest sacrifices to its welfare, but they confound the abuses of civilization with its benefits, and the idea of evil is inseparable in their minds from that of novelty.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

To the uncertainty and annoyance of a life which was continually being threatened, was added a number of vexatious and personal insults, even in ordinary times, and when they enjoyed a kind of normal tolerance.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Gavroche raised it with remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant’s forelegs.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We find certain constantly occurring forms of speech which bear eloquent testimony to the fact that the blame we cast upon others is in reality directed against their unchangeable character, touching but superficially [Pg 251] what they do; that virtue and vice are practically, if tacitly, regarded as inherent unalterable qualities.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

These two versions are printed in Lewis’s New Testament translated by J. Wiclif (1731) p. 99
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Curiosity, from its nature, is a very active principle; it quickly runs over the greatest part of its objects, and soon exhausts the variety which is commonly to be met with in nature; the same things make frequent returns, and they return with less and less of any Page 126 agreeable effect.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Yet was I at first dissatisfied, and am, therefore, glad to notice that whilst I was demurring and splitting hairs the great, generous public was buying the Lives of Twelve Bad Women , by Arthur Vincent, and putting it into a second edition.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

An aquarium tank with a faint solution of histamine would be enough to convert a piece of human skin into a community of voracious active phagocytes individually seeking something to devour, but could they eat enough to live away from the rich sustaining plasma of human blood?
— from Contagion by Katherine MacLean

The United States, in Congress assembled, by their acts of the 21st day of July, 1787, and of the 12th August, 1788, made a provisional arrangement for calling forth the militia of Virginia and Pennsylvania in the proportions therein specified.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

A number of small valves and perforations in the partition sheet between the water and steam compartments, will remedy that hitherto very general annoyance of water rising to and through the valves, which is occasioned by pressure of steam upon the surface of the water, and when one large valve is opened, the pressure is partly removed from the water immediately under it, consequently the water rises through the valve.
— from Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.—No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

There was unmistakable derision in his voice and palpable insolence in his manner.
— from Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

To protect the blister, grease a small piece of chamois with vaseline and place it so that it covers the blister and extends over on the solid skin surrounding it.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

His vivid and pictorial imagination, his consciousness of inrushes from the unplumbed deeps within, and his inclination to solitude and meditation are well in evidence at an early age, and we have no difficulty at all in seeing that his psychological equilibrium was unstable, and that he was capable of sudden shifts of inward level.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

Gain entering in changes the motive of all this: from a work of love, it becomes a profession; self-sacrifice vanishes, as personal interest appears.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Mr. George brought up his valise, and placed it on the counter.
— from Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott

To this petition belong all the psalms, versicles and prayers in which we pray to God or grace and virtue.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther