Some of the visitors were, of course, in excellent spirits and quite unconcerned as to the fate of Mitya personally.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vun dollar und a quarter, und a day like dis!—But you understand now—you vill pay me de rest of twenty-five dollars soon?”
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

But we with living overwrought, And full of grave and sombre thought, Are snappish oft: dear little men, We have ill-tempered days, and then, Are quite unjust and full of care; It rained this morning and the air Was chill; but clouds that dimm'd the sky Have passed.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The feeling was very subtle and quite undogmatic, and he never imparted it to any other of the characters in this entanglement.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Sometimes the mind fixes itself with so much earnestness on the contemplation of some objects, that it turns their ideas on all sides; marks their relations and circumstances; and views every part so nicely and with such intention, that it shuts out all other thoughts, and takes no notice of the ordinary impressions made then on the senses, which at another season would produce very sensible perceptions: at other times it barely observes the train of ideas that succeed in the understanding, without directing and pursuing any of them: and at other times it lets them pass almost quite unregarded, as faint shadows that make no impression.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

IMG Enlarge The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a cry; the man’s head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

With a million and a quarter unemployed and large numbers of the working classes unable to find homes, the professed representatives of Labour have persistently clamoured for the removal of restrictions on alien immigration and alien imports.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I am quite uneasy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Oxford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Archaeologists in Egypt and archaeologists in Ireland face the same unsolved problem, namely, the purpose of the empty stone chest without inscriptions and quite unlike a mummy tomb, and of the stone basin in New Grange.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I conceive, I said, that the true legislator will not trouble himself with this class of enactments whether concerning laws or the constitution either in an ill-ordered or in a well-ordered State; for in the former they are quite useless, and in the latter there will be no difficulty in devising them; and many of them will naturally flow out of our previous regulations.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“I am quite uncertain about myself; I don’t know how uncertain others may be.”
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

said Redgauntlet, not sorry, perhaps, to pick a quarrel upon a point foreign to the tenor of the epistle.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

[Pg 84] and searched up and down with her crew at quarters until after midnight.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich

“It’s stranger still how Fellner could have been shot, for the window-shutters were fastened and quite uninjured, and both doors were locked on the inside.”
— from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Auguste Groner

I think they generally know that they have been ushered into a house of life of which they are quite unworthy, and that they take their first steps therein in reverence and in awe.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray

Now, for the first time in my life, do I experience the benefits of a sentimental name, which has rather troubled me before, as belonging to a quite unsentimental and commonplace person, and thereby raising expectations, through hearsay, which actual vision dispelled with painful suddenness.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

It came on to pour in torrents, and we all returned soaked through, and quite undecided as to our future route.
— from With Sack and Stock in Alaska by Horatio George Broke

“You are asked a question, umlúngu , and instead of answering you rave and bellow and throw yourself about like a cow that has lost her calf.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

Tony, engrossed in the play, failed to notice the mishap and went on staking, but the Englishman, apparently quite unconcerned as to the chances he might be missing, stooped at once and collected the bag and its scattered contents.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler