Suffice it that I found myself taken before the chief magistrate, and by his orders was placed in an apartment with two other people, who were the first I had seen looking anything but well and handsome.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Ever rising from the sea of my remembrance, is the image of the dear child as I knew her first, graced by my young love, and by her own, with every fascination wherein such love is rich.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But what consequence was that, when she had a big heart overflowing with human kindness?
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

It is said that once he was led out of his house by an old woman for the purpose of observing the stars, and he fell into a ditch and bewailed himself, on which the old woman said to him—“Do you, O Thales, who cannot see what is under your feet, think that you shall understand what is in heaven?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her lot?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This Right of the Heathen Kings, cannot bee thought taken from them by their conversion to the Faith of Christ; who never ordained, that Kings for beleeving in him, should be deposed, that is, subjected to any but himself, or (which is all one) be deprived of the power necessary for the conservation of Peace amongst their Subjects, and for their defence against foraign Enemies.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The first impressions which an Englishman receives in this country, will not contribute to the removal of his prejudices; because he refers every thing he sees to a comparison with the same articles in his own country; and this comparison is unfavourable to Scotland in all its exteriors, such as the face of the country in respect to cultivation, the appearance of the bulk of the people, and the language of conversation in general.—I am not so far convinced by Mr Lismahago’s arguments, but that I think the Scots would do well, for their own sakes, to adopt the English idioms and pronunciation; those of them especially, who are resolved to push their fortunes in South-Britain—I know, by experience, how easily an Englishman is influenced by the ear, and how apt he is to laugh, when he hears his own language spoken with a foreign or provincial accent—I have known a member of the house of commons speak with great energy and precision, without being able to engage attention, because his observations were made in the Scotch dialect, which (no offence to lieutenant Lismahago) certainly gives a clownish air even to sentiments of the greatest dignity and decorum.—I have declared my opinion on this head to some of the most sensible men of this country, observing, at the same time, that if they would employ a few natives of England to teach the pronunciation of our vernacular tongue, in twenty years there would be no difference, in point of dialect, between the youth of Edinburgh and of London.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Whether as boy, husband, or widower, he had always the sneaking belief that bodily passion is bad, a belief that is desirable only when held passionately.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

And pushing his black craft among them all, He lightly scattered theirs and brought her off, With loss of half his people arrow-slain; A maid so smooth, so white, so wonderful, They said a light came from her when she moved:
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Witchcraft occurred to her, but she put the thought aside, for this was before Gottfried joined the household, and she knew Ursula was pious and a bitter hater of witches.
— from The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance by Mark Twain

All God's claims have been answered by His own work.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

To be kept in the dark, and by his own wife, was the one thing that was unendurable.
— from Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope

It is easy to say that "God never wrought miracles to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it"; but, as a matter of fact, it is the God of Miracles in whom the multitude have always believed.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

Then the head chiefs and all the Medicine Men of the five tribes prayed that the Great Spirit would help them, and while they prayed a big herd of wild horses approached the camp.
— from Star: The Story of an Indian Pony by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

So, then, I have made a blessed hand of wedlock.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

They are too craven to go to the house of her father Icarius, that he may himself set the bride-price for his daughter, and bestow her on whom he will, even on him who finds favour in his sight.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

Their log church had become too small, and they had for a year been preparing to build a larger and better house of worship.
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs