But I beseech Thee by our King, and by our pure and holy country, Jerusalem, that as any consenting thereto is far from me, so may it ever be further and further.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“But the red Hurons are not deaf; and counsel that is fit for the great men of a nation would make the young warriors drunk.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It was only while you were helpless as a child that I felt for you as if you were one."
— from Faithful Margaret: A Novel by Simpson, J. M., Mrs.

"Honour thy father" is a commandment that is far from being obsolete in New Mexico.
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

The voluminous hearing room reacted promptly to the authoritative command that issued forth from the petite auburn haired Nancy Deere who would have been just as comfortable auc- tioning donated goods at her church.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

In those few instances when the wind was in that quarter, it did not blow with any great force, which might be owing to the high lands, south of the bay, giving a check to its force; for we had reason to believe that it blew with considerable force a few leagues out at sea, since it sometimes drove a prodigious sea before it into the bay, during which we rode forecastle in.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

I thought over all my business acquaintance, but there were none upon whom I had not already called, that I felt free to ask for the loan of money.
— from Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Sahwah puttered about collecting the ingredients for flapjacks to make a treat for the boys, who had worked like Trojans ever since school was out.
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey

Now, sir, go, and never again enter this house, where the loathing and contempt that I feel for you will, I know, be shared by the ladies of my family.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

We discovered a continual circulation going on,—the plant drawing in the elements of inorganic nature and combining them into food for the animal creation; the animal borrowing from the plant the matter for its own support, giving off during its life products which returned immediately to the inorganic world; and that, eventually, the constituent materials of the whole structure of both animals and plants were thus returned to their original source: there was a constant passage from one state of existence to another, and a returning back again.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

They find their pleasure in a cup that is filled from Lethe’s wharf, and for the awakening, for the vision, for the revelation of reality, tradition offers us a different word—ecstasy.
— from Per Amica Silentia Lunae by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

It rankled in me at first to see his reward so meagre, his conquest so mean; but the simplification effected had a charm that I finally felt; it was a forcing-house for the three or four other fine miscarriages to which his scheme was evidently condemned.
— from Embarrassments by Henry James