And how different is this despot here at home from the humble, meek, dull-witted little man we are accustomed to see in the editor’s offices!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I am ready, as the saying is, to shed my last drop of blood for him this instant; but you will admit that debauchery, drunkenness, and the captain’s widow, all these together may lead him very far.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When it does so in the knowledge of itself, that is the first day; when in the knowledge of the firmament, which is the name given to the sky between the waters above and those beneath, that is the second day; when in the knowledge of the earth, and the sea, and all things that grow out of the earth, that is the third day; when in the knowledge of the greater and less luminaries, and all the stars, that is the fourth day; when in the knowledge of all animals that swim in the waters and that fly in the air, that is the fifth day; when in the knowledge of all animals that live on the earth, and of man himself, that is the sixth day.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The farmhouses and their surroundings in the Quaker settlement through which, after descending from the Ridges on the northern side, we passed, came to be notable at an early date for a characterist [476] ic neatness, completeness, and visible judiciousness; and for an air of enviable general comfort and prosperity.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For as the faculties of the mind are supposed to be naturally alike in every individual; otherwise nothing could be more fruitless than to reason or dispute together; it were impossible, if men affix the same ideas to their terms, that they could so long form different opinions of the same subject; especially when they communicate their views, and each party turn themselves on all sides, in search of arguments which may give them the victory over their antagonists.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Clifford sat at the window with Hepzibah, watching the neighbors as they stepped into the street.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

656 There are thermal springs in the Alpine valleys, but not any in the elevated parts of the Alps themselves.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And as for the pleasant colour, how [Pg 514] conspicuous shall it be where "the just shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father!"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

After following the trail about forty rods in a pretty direct course, stepping over fallen trees and winding between standing ones, he at length lost it, for there were many other moose-tracks there, and, returning once more to the last blood-stain, traced it a little way and lost it again, and, too soon, I thought, for a good hunter, gave it up entirely.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

The loss of original righteousness does not, according to Strigel, involve the total spiritual disability of the will and its sole tendency and activity toward what is spiritually evil.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Once—but long years had rolled by since then—citherns and Æolian harps had been hung up on his boughs by merry wanderers, now they hung there again, and once again they sounded in tones of marvellous sweetness.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Fourteen years surely I must have been--" sounded in from the piano, and they streamed into the room; for it was Signe who was singing, and Signe's Swedish melodies and the way in which she sang them, were most delightful.
— from The Fisher Girl by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

And yet his plan of adding twenty-seven years to each important date in Crusoe's history has revealed so many coincident events in the life of Defoe that we cannot help feeling he is "hot," as they say in the children's game; that the wreck upon the island and Crusoe's twenty-eight years odd of solitude do really correspond with some great event and important period of Defoe's life.
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

[** full-stop added] The speaker, in the delivery of one of Fète.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown

I do not want to be weaned by age; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they say, into the grave."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

Friar John went that very moment among the sutlers, into the cooks' tents, and told them in a pleasing manner: I must see you crowned with honour and triumph this day, my lads; to your arms are reserved such achievements as never yet were performed within the memory of man.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Rabelais

In Australia the story is told of an old man and his daughter who lived in great darkness.
— from Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

In the fifth chapter, you find them railing at him, because he continued preaching among them salvation in the name of Jesus.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan