Hence it was in no spirit of repentance that she entered the little room in which she had spent so many weary hours, but rather as one who came to demand her rights.
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

Besides the temporary diminution of the spirit of animation or sensorial power, which is naturally stationary or resident in every living fibre, by a single exhibition of a powerful stimulus, the contractile fibres themselves, by the perpetual application of a new quantity of stimulus, before they have regained their natural quantity of sensorial power, appear to suffer in their capability of receiving so much as the natural quantity of sensorial power; and hence a permanent deficiency of spirit of animation takes place, however long the stimulus may have been withdrawn.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

“The sage, with its spikes of greyish blue flowers, its fibrous, velvety leaves, its strong, pungent perfume, which is not squandered or repressed, is the stoic of my native terraces.
— from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

It must also be admitted that the conduct of the menaced Governments carried with it no suggestion of resistance.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

“The man’s wife, was it not?” “Some one representing her, I suspect.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

"He who is not susceptible of reason is unworthy of being called a reasonable being," Robert answered.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

“Was it not some old reportorial ruse played upon the credulity of the ancients that made the story of Aladdin’s wonderful lamp to live in literature and come down to us through the ages to make us listen with open ears, gape with open mouth, and wonder with open eyes at the wonders of it—and I wonder if that ancient reporter could prove in any way the foundation of his story of the lamp and the rubbing of it.
— from The Life of Henry Bradley Plant Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company by G. Hutchinson (George Hutchinson) Smyth

Would it not simplify our relations to those churches, as well as call forth much more efficient effort from themselves, if we were to leave them, as the Apostles did their native churches, to take care of their own pastors, after such have been ordained?
— from History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

It was in no spirit of recklessness then that Warwick resolved to cross into Kent in the last week of June, with every man that could be spared from Calais.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

The first blessing in Jesus Christ is salvation, with its negative side of remission of sins and forgiveness, and its positive side of renewal or regeneration—­the new birth—­one experience.
— from When the Holy Ghost is Come by Samuel Logan Brengle