"A weary and lonesome time yonder old couple have of it," remarked the old woman, smiling in the lady's face.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

304-310 a moral, we should at once perceive that the adventure of Phaëton represents the wilful folly of a rash young man, who consults his own inclination, rather than the dictates of wisdom and prudence.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He who will be great must collect himself; only in restriction does the master show himself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Valentine had solved the problem, and was able easily to understand his thoughts, and to convey her own in return, and, through her untiring and devoted assiduity, it was seldom that, in the ordinary transactions of every-day life, she failed to anticipate the wishes of the living, thinking mind, or the wants of the almost inanimate body.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He turned his head, looked around him, and saw no one; but the sound was repeated distinctly enough to convince him of its reality.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If you claim his obedience in return for the care bestowed upon him, he will think you have over-reached him; he will see that while you profess to have cared for him without reward, you meant to saddle him with a debt and to bind him to a bargain which he never made.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We may study a human being in respect to his common humanity, or in respect to his individuality.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

See Henequen Agouti, 374 Aguilar, Jeronimo, 48 , 82 Akad-zib, Chichen, 103 Algonkins and Toltec Theory, 246 Alligators, 375 ; carved heads of, in ruins, importance of, 268 Alphabet, Mayan, attempts to compose, 299 America's first architects, Who were?, 257 American Man, age of, 260 Ants, 377 Anuradhapura, ruins of, Ceylon, 263 Apalachians, 245 ; Mayans branch of, 254 Arawaks, in Cuba, 254 Armadillos, 374 Astronomy, Mayan knowledge of, 314 Athapascans, Aztecs branch of, 245 Aztecs, arrival in Mexico, 247 ; raids into Honduras, 225 ; influence on Mayans, 296 B Bancroft, H., on Mexican priests, 275 Bats, 374 Behring Straits, Was America peopled via?,
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

You met them in the pair of facile dimples that gave genial emphasis to his sunny smile; in the crisp, coarse curl of his blue-black hair, which receded at either temple, and drooped centrally over a broad, full brow; in the sensuous, ample, ruddy mouth, which so often showed teeth of perfect shape and unflawed purity, and was shaded by a mustache tending to chestnut in shade, with each strong crinkled hair of it rippling away to the smooth-sloping cheeks; and lastly in the violet-tinted Irish eyes, whose deep-black lashes had a beautiful length and gloss.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Its bristling length stretched from the central platform, blocking the aisle, and the courtyard echoed with the clanging hoofs of its rear, which backed into the school and the poor-house.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

On finishing it, the Emperor said: "Such a thing as this can happen only in Russia."
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

I shall never lose the memory of my first walk on the first day—the wading in mud, the climbing over broken engines, cars, heaps of iron rollers, broken timbers, wrecks of houses; bent railway
— from A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton

With the bath and the clean clothes his old instincts revived within him, and as he looked into the glass he caught something of the likeness of his college days.
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Ever ready and forward to acknowledge the interposition of the hand of Providence in the direction of human events, this truly great commander closed his orders in reference to this event, in the following impressive manner: "Divine service shall be performed to-morrow in the different brigades and divisions.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

assented Rob, "and you think that Jack and his gang have carried him off in revenge for it?" "Looks that way to me," nodded the stout youth.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap