His immediate successors we do not know.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

36 In his calmer moments Nestorius confessed, that it might be tolerated or excused by the union of the two natures, and the communication of their idioms: 37 but he was exasperated, by contradiction, to disclaim the worship of a new-born, an infant Deity, to draw his inadequate similes from the conjugal or civil partnerships of life, and to describe the manhood of Christ as the robe, the instrument, the tabernacle of his Godhead.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So, then, he felt himself ineffably superior to me in every respect!
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6 his ipsis , sc.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“Have I?” said he quietly, and looking at her; “of what nature?” “Oh! the best nature in the world—a wedding.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

If Mr. and Mrs. Mawmsey, who had no idea of employing Lydgate, were made uneasy by his supposed declaration against drugs, it was inevitable that those who called him in should watch a little anxiously to see whether he did "use all the means he might use" in the case.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In yielding up my trust here, I shall not be freed from the necessity of eating the bread of dependence:’ she might have said the sweetbread, for that delicate article in a savoury brown sauce was her favourite supper: ‘and I would rather receive it from your hand, than from any other.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

However, it seems to be your gift to go unharmed amid fire; and as you have hitherto been favored—major, you have left your rifle at a cock; a single shot before the time would be just twenty scalps lost to no purpose—singer, you can follow; we may find use for you in the shoutings.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

However he might seem to us he is still in the service of the law, so he belongs to the law, so he's beyond what man has a right to judge.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

He has no discretion, and he is often compelled to throw those of whose innocence he is satisfied, into the company of the most abandoned wretches for an entire night.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

He is said to have drilled the negro slaves on his plantation so thoroughly for such enterprises, that his co-operation was of the utmost necessity.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

Mistaking, apparently, his intention, she rushed at him with outstretched arms, giving utterance to yell after yell.
— from Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh

A slight groan escaped him in spite of his utmost efforts to restrain himself.
— from The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

How is she? Dead?
— from The Lure of the Dim Trails by B. M. Bower

"Thanks; and now that the hearth is scrupulously clean may I offer you a chair?"
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

Though he is willing to tell the exact truth, yet because of his prejudice he is sure to see only that which will coincide with his preconceived opinions.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

But ever, for ever, her image shall last, I'll strip all the spring of its earliest bloom; On her grave shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, And the new blossom'd thorn shall whiten her tomb."
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith