They endeavour, as long as possible, to conceal their blindness and deafness, their rheums and gouts; nor do they ever confess them without reluctance and uneasiness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Father Madeleine’s profits were such, that at the end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

That this evil, a long time retarded, partly by the wise measures of the patricians, partly by the forbearance of the commons, had now proceeded to extremities.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

It adds a precious seeing to the eye: A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They had covered many and many a mile, and Toad was already considering what he would have for supper as soon as he got home, when he noticed that the engine-driver, with a puzzled expression on his face, was leaning over the side of the engine and listening hard.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

This purple pearl grass, at the outset, tarried for months and years; but being at a later period imbued with the essence and luxuriance of heaven and earth, and having incessantly received the moisture and nurture of the sweet dew, divested itself, in course of time, of the form of a grass; assuming, in lieu, a human nature, which gradually became perfected into the person of a girl.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And when the Deponent came to be a Prisoner himself, he found Thomas , the Brother of this John Tarlton , a Prisoner with the Pyrates also, who was immediately on Wilson ’s Instigation, in a most sad manner misused and beat, and had been shot, through the Fury and Rage of some of those Fellows, if the Town-side, ( i. e. Liverpool ) Men, had not hid him in a Stay-Sail, under the Bowsprit; for Moody and Harper , with their Pistols cock’d, searched every Corner of the Ship to find him, and came to this Deponent’s Hammock, whom they had like fatally to have mistaken for Tarlton , but on his calling out, they found their Error, and left him with this comfortable Anodyne, That he was the honest Fellow who brought the Doctor.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

At the entrance to the tent he bowed himself down to the earth, and lay there until a voice bade him arise.
— from Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

{97} On the same day, but late in the evening, Count Giulay arrived at Buonaparte's headquarters, then established at Lintz, with a proposal for an armistice, previous to a general negotiation for peace.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

The point of view is almost everything in these matters; but if positions of honor in the kingdoms of the earth are lightly esteemed, positions of honor in the kingdom of God have a right to be esteemed more highly.
— from A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geography and History of Palestine, and a Chapter on Churches of Christ in Great Britain by Don Carlos Janes

Such, for instance, are the German and Greek, the Latin and Russian, the English and Lithuanic, all of which are Indo-European, and all of which, when placed in simple juxta-position, by no means show themselves in any very palpable manner as such.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Get this experience, and learn by experiment the cheapest and most profitable food, and keep from five hundred to a thousand fowls, and a reasonable though not [Pg 198] large profit may be realized.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

The steamers are going so full now that it is necessary to engage a long time before.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

A white-robed sister graciously gives permission to enter, and leads the visitor across the spacious court, through the stately rooms and halls—all intact in their old-fashioned harmony of proportion and decoration—into the garden that stretches far along Rue de Rémusat, and that once spread away down the slope to the Seine.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

There must be few normally imaginative town-bred children to whom the pointed upright area-railings do not appear an unsearchable armoury of spears or as walls of protective flames, temporarily frozen [118] black so that people should be able to enter and leave their house.
— from G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

"Papa was consul-general, you know, first at Madrid, then in the East, and lastly merely a consul at Milan."
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick