But none had ever heard where the entrance to this enchanted hall was, till a farmer, fifty years since, was sitting knitting on the ruins of the castle, and his clew fell and ran downwards through briars into a deep subterranean passage.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it doth singe yourself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

You think you have found a lost woman to deal with, who lives here on sufferance, and who will do anything you ask for fear you may injure her in the opinions of the town's-people.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Within each Arc fall four Yugas or Ages, called Kali , Dwapara , Treta , and Satya , corresponding to the Greek ideas of Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Golden Ages.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But if you want men to vote for a measure that will abolish child labor, or if you would inspire them to take up arms for freedom, you must strike straight at their feelings.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And for four years the king himself agreed to advance a tenth of the whole stock of the company, without interest, and to bear a corresponding proportion of any loss which the company, in the course of four years, might sustain.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

I did not see him again for five years, at which time he came in disguise to the thieves' headquarters where I was staying.
— from A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas (House name) Carter

I calculated that by working my way along for fifty yards between them and the rock-face I should gain an opening which, observed from below, had seemed to promise me an excellent view of the next beach.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch

For then you will believe that God the Father looks on you, and feels for you, exactly as does Jesus Christ your Lord; then you will feel that he is a Father indeed; and will enter more and more into the unspeakable comfort of that word of all words, ‘Our Father who art in heaven.’
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

It’s like a fall from your horse—make a struggle, and you ‘re sure to break your leg or your collar-bone; take it kindly, and the chances are that you get up all right again, after the first shock.’
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

“Lead me straight up to him, and when I'm in view, cry out, 'Here's a friend for you, Bill.'
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dear Madam Prescott : I have been a long time anxious to receive a favor from you, and have felt diffident in asking it; but am now at the required state of resolution.
— from Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life by Amos Lawrence

You would not place a fortune for your children in the hands of an inexperienced [188] person, no matter how good he might be.
— from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller

Perhaps when I am further from you I shall be better able to write you the sort of letter you will care to have from me.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit