Will not it be beautiful in her dark hair?”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Red with shame, offended, not by Ilyin, no I but by the cowardice and shamelessness with which she, a good, respectable woman allowed a stranger to embrace her knees.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But the most and the wisest part, rejecting all these, believe that there is a certain godly power unknown, far above the capacity and reach of man's wit, dispersed throughout all the world, not in bigness, but in virtue and power.
— from The Republic by Plato

Scott says: "This incident, like some other passages in the poem, illustrative of the character of the ancient Gael, is not imaginary, but borrowed from fact.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

But at drawing, his hand swung naturally in big, bold lines, rather lax, so that it was cruel for him to pedgill away at the lace designing, working from the tiny squares of his paper, counting and plotting and niggling.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Nor is Brest behind-hand; nor Alsatian Westermann; Demoiselle Theroigne is Sybil Theroigne: Vengeance Victoire, ou la mort!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Naples is beautiful, but as crowded with people as Vienna or Paris.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“He can neither be affected with favour nor indignation, because both these are the effects of frailty.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At first she did not notice it, but by-and-by it began to annoy her, and she plucked it out and threw it into Llowes churchyard, three miles away, where it now lies.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

It might easily happen, in the confusion and dispersion, that no knowledge of this had reached them; or perhaps sorrow and agitation had driven it out of their memories; or perhaps they felt that, whether others had done the same before or no, they must do it too, not because the loved form needed it, but because their hearts needed to do it.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

But, even so, shall blankness be for aye?… SPIRIT OF THE YEARS What wouldst have hoped and had the Will to be?… SEMI-CHORUS I OF THE PITIES Nay;—shall not Its blindness break?
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

but not It belongs both to you and me.
— from Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

He had been making money on the side nights in boxing bouts.
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

Nevertheless, with all these virtues, the Boer defensive, by reason of the above-mentioned characteristics of the individual soldiers, was no insurmountable barrier, but only an obstacle to a determined attack.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

This seems to be said merely with the view of blackening the character of Tiberius, as the character of Nero is blackened by the statements made about Antonius Natalis.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

—John Russell's Boke of Norture, in Babees Book, p. 13.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

A remarkable case of this kind, which has not, I believe, been noticed, occurs in the Mediterranean; and is conspicuous in the new chart of that sea, by Captain W.H. Smyth.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King