Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School—not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

It is the analytical method in general that I wish for the exposition of mathematics, instead of the synthetical method which Euclid made use of.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Upon a more leisurely Survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire Arches, with several broken Arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the Number about an hundred.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Shelley's marriage was even more unfortunate.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Pictures and prints which even my unpractised eyes could recognize as being of great price and rarity hung thick upon the walls.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

He was unwilling himself to engage in the lowest kind of day labor with these new elements of the population; he was even more unwilling to bring sons and daughters into the world to enter into that competition.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

" Will was even more uncomfortable than wondering.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Again the princess glanced round at her companion with even more uneasiness in her manner and was about to add something, but Pierre interrupted her.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She hastened to make the acquaintance of the teachers and their wives, even made up to Kolya's schoolfellows, [pg 579] and fawned upon them in the hope of thus saving Kolya from being teased, laughed at, or beaten by them.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But never be so mad as to meddle with these sacred birds, as much as thou lovest the profit, welfare, and life not only of thyself, and thy friends and relations alive or dead, but also of those that may be born hereafter to the thousandth generation; for so long thou wouldst entail misery upon them.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“I might tell that I begin my diurnal course with the sun; that, if my hirelings are not in their places at that time, I send them messages of sorrow for their indisposition; that, having put these wheels in motion, I examine the state of things further; that, the more they are probed, the deeper I find the wounds which my buildings have sustained by an absence and neglect of eight years; that, by the time I have accomplished these matters, breakfast (a little after seven o'clock, about the time I suppose you are taking leave of Mrs. M'Henry) is ready; that, this being over, I mount my [Pg 483] horse and ride round my farms, which employ me until it is time to dress for dinner, at which I rarely miss seeing strange faces—come, as they say, out of respect for me.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Perhaps no two individuals were ever more unlike in mind and disposition than my brother and myself: as light is opposed to darkness, so was that happy, brilliant, cheerful child to the sad and melancholy being who sprang from the same stock as himself, and was nurtured by the same milk.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

"By Alla!" said I, stopping and looking at him, "if ever you mention that word again—" "Never, never!" cried the wretch, trembling; "do not beat me; remember it is the open street, and there will be a disturbance; the words escaped me unawares, just as I was thinking—"
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

It seemed so hard that I had only a funny little face and homely little ways in which to express all the beautiful big, swishy feelings that were eating me up inside, and Grace was so lovely that she could express things she didn't really feel at all.
— from Love in a Muddle by Christine Jope-Slade

The company was entirely made up in a fortnight.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The animosities caused at this time in France by the spirit of party, the violences of which were excessive, were everywhere mixed up, as in Provins, with selfish schemes and wounded or vindictive individual interests.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac

Returning one day from a successful fishing excursion, I was enjoying my usual siesta when El Tio made up his mind, as it seemed, to pay me an unexpected visit, doubtless with the intention of robbing me of the products of my industry, which I had dressed and salted a few minutes before.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

But then a tantalizing sense Invades expectancy intense, And with extorted moan, “Unhappy man!”
— from In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne

They were likely to discover the Deerfoot , if they had not already done so, and knowing its superior speed, would either make use of or disable it so it could not be employed for pursuit.
— from The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Edward Sylvester Ellis