" "No such thing!" said the barber, who felt himself a little above his company at Dollop's, but liked it none the worse.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nay, good brother, let it not trouble you thus.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

One of two things: if any way possible, they buy land; if not, they migrate to town.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Just consider: can that want renown which has been agreed to be lacking in nothing, to be supreme in power, and right worthy of honour, for the reason that it cannot bestow this upon itself, and so comes to appear somewhat poor in esteem?'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their desires; equality is their idol: they make rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty, and if they miss their aim resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them except equality, and rather than lose it they resolve to perish.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Again, if the having strong and bad lusts is necessary to the idea of the man of Self-Control, this character cannot be identical with the man of Perfected Self-Mastery, because the having strong desires or bad ones does not enter into the idea of this latter character: and yet the man of Self-Control must have such: for suppose them good; then the moral state which should hinder a man from following their suggestions must be bad, and so Self-Control would not be in all cases good: suppose them on the other hand to be weak and not wrong, it would be nothing grand; nor anything great, supposing them to be wrong and weak.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Then came the turn of my composition, and before long I noticed that the picture of my sufferings was making a profound impression on her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was decided that the count must not go, but that if Louisa Ivánovna (Madame Schoss) would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melyukóvs’, Sónya, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivánovna not to refuse.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Never was such sport heard of!"—"A better land is nowhere to be found!"
— from The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

She had certainly been led into no toleration of moral laxity, and indeed the effect of her husband's cynical Paganism had been to make her dread more acutely any infringement upon moral laws.
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

Of the few old buildings left in Newport, the most remarkable is the Jacobean Grammar School at the corner of Lugley Street and the road going down to cross Towngate bridge for Parkhurst and West Cowes.
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

It is an astonishing, not to say staggering, fact that they did so understand it, yet the borrowers' list is none the less illegal.
— from Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

German financiers were at one time desirous of undertaking the extension eastward of the Lobito Bay Railway—mainly, as it seemed, with a view to furthering German interests in Portuguese territory (see page 314 ); but the Kambove-Lobito Bay line is now to be constructed with British capital.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

But love is not the portion of princesses.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

The markings on the reddish fore wings of this species (Plate 88 , Figs. 9 and 10) are somewhat similar to those of the last mentioned, but there is no black streak in the tips of the wings, and the upper part of the outer black line is not toothed.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South