I saw a look interchanged between them immediately after their entrance, which threw a most unwelcome light on my mind."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

There was therein a more universal military expertness required, and that comprehended the most and the greatest qualities of a military man: “Neque enim eaedem militares et imperatorix artes sunt,”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Here was the ancient marauder up to his old tricks again.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Now these Jews are already gotten into all cities; and it is hard to find a place in the habitable earth that hath not admitted this tribe of men, and is not possessed by them; and it hath come to pass that Egypt and Cyrene, as having the same governors, and a great number of other nations, imitate their way of living, and maintain great bodies of these Jews in a peculiar manner, and grow up to greater prosperity with them, and make use of the same laws with that nation also.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

However proper such reasonings might be to show that a thing OUGHT NOT TO EXIST, they are wholly to be rejected when they are made use of to prove that it does not exist contrary to the evidence of the fact itself.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

As to Cicero, his works that are most useful to my design are they that treat of manners and rules of our life.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

but it was a common sight in those jolly old times, when a gentleman was thought a milksop unless he was occasionally tipsy.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

And thus I have, in a short draught, given a view of OUR ORIGINAL IDEAS, from whence all the rest are derived, and of which they are made up; which, if I would consider as a philosopher, and examine on what causes they depend, and of what they are made, I believe they all might be reduced to these very few primary and original ones, viz.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The first people who hear news of this sort are generally those to whom they are most unwelcome.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

" "Well, 'twas a most ungodly remedy," murmured Joseph Poorgrass; "but we ought to feel deep cheerfulness that a happy Providence kept it from being any worse.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Of such men were those armies made up that endured with a woman's patience and fought with a man's fury, righting a great wrong as much by moral as by physical strength, and going to death for the right, when death, pitiless and inevitable, stared them in the face.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“He was, then, a more unhappy son than you, Morrel, for he could not even find his father’s grave.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It has that charm still, not only for the amateurs, who are happiest when they are most unnatural and impossible and absurd, but for audiences as well.
— from Overruled by Bernard Shaw

The army are not responsible for Indian wars; they are "men under authority," who go where they are sent.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

"The missus went to Axminster, Mr. Ukridge, sir."
— from Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But in reality (however it has prevailed) there never was a more groundless report, or to the contrary of which there are more undeniable evidences; as the comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor , which he entirely new writ; the History of Henry VI. , which was first published under the title of The Contention of York and Lancaster , and that of Henry V. , extremely improved: that of Hamlet , enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

While the Arabs make up the bulk of the inhabitants, representatives of all countries and climes are seen.
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society

Sir Francis, as usual, gives no reference; but we may be sure that he could, if he had pleased, have given one for the burning of the Monastery as well as for the capture of the Abbot, which the Annals mention under the next year, though not in connection with the sack of Paris.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

good for the sportsman; for the Norwegians say, that when the fish begin to leap out of the water, they are moving up the river, and disinclined to take food.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross