Wherefore dost Thou keep so cruel a dog in Thy yard, at the sight of which such women and children [229] as we are ready to fly from the gate with fear?" He answered and said, "That dog has another owner; he also is kept close in another man's ground, only my pilgrims hear his barking: he belongs to the castle which you see there at a distance, but can come up to the walls of this place.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

[141] According to one of the commentators of the Decameron, there are as many churches at Ravenna as days in the year and each day is there celebrated as that of some saint or other.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[Ts`ao Kung says: "The particular advantage of securing heights and defiles is that your actions cannot then be dictated by the enemy."
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for one another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

At ten o’clock that evening the Rostóv family and the wounded traveling with them were all distributed in the yards and huts of that large village.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Q. How comes it that old men remember Page 470 well what they have seen and done in their youth, and forget such things as they see and do in their old age?
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

"But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head and broke its stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces."
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

"'The cruel observations of Petion to His Majesty, on our ever memorable return from Varennes, have made a deeper impression than you are aware of.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

But the culinary possibilities of this simple esculent are so illimitable it can be served in about as many different ways as there are days in the year, and be acceptable in all of them, if properly done; for no member of the vegetable kingdom returns a richer reward for the care bestowed upon it than the potato.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1 by Chautauqua Institution

The first and chief rule for the guidance of the man to whom is allotted the post of honour and danger is this—" You are to light the lamps every evening at sunsetting, and keep them constantly burning bright and clear till sunrising ."
— from Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands by Marianne Farningham

There used to be a three-years' service, now the men have to get through the same amount of work and drill in two years, and the military and extra-military duties of to-day are not to be compared with those of ten years ago.
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von

He's a smarter man than Dr. Gibson any day in the year; and he ain't quite so awful high neither, and that's something.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Consciously or unconsciously, you compare the Negro's progress with your progress, forgetting, when you are doing it, that you are placing a pretty severe test on the members of my race.
— from The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by Booker T. Washington

The chronicle of the year B.C. 495 tells us that there was a dispute in that year as to who should dedicate the temple of Mercury.
— from The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Jesse Benedict Carter