The countenance of the latter immediately impressed a beholder disagreeably, but it required some examination to discover that the cause was a very slight distortion of the mouth and the irregular, broken line and near approach of the eyebrows.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But in return she exacted a great deal from him, sometimes even slavishness.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Thus] it is true that we must honour noblemen, but not because noble birth is real superiority, etc.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Ponsonby is over head and ears in love, and there's no knowing how many more will become so; for her beauty is really something extraordinary.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

The Jussiaea grandiflora has become naturalised in Southern France, and has spread by its rhizomes so extensively as to impede the navigation of the waters, but never produces fertile seed.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

As it cannot be supposed, that secret enticers should be liable to punishment, and not open avouchers of a desire and design to pervert all the nation to idolatry: that a private perverter of one man, though never so nearly and dearly related, should be pursued and brought to condign punishment, and a public subverter of whole nations, and introducer of a false and blasphemous idolatrous religion, should escape scot free.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

At present the military importance of Signakh is almost at an end, but if Russia should ever find herself involved in a great war we might probably hear something of the doings of the Lesghians in that region.
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop

" In 1828 Mr James Mill, the author of the History of British India, reprinted some essays which he had contributed to the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and among these was an Essay on Government.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I insulted and hurt you; but I repented sincerely, even before you had left the house.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers