[4483] The one rears to heaven, the other depresseth us to hell; the one good, which stirs us up to the contemplation of that divine beauty for whose sake we perform justice and all godly offices, study philosophy, &c.; the other base, and though bad yet to be respected; for indeed both are good in their own natures: procreation of children is as necessary as that finding out of truth, but therefore called bad, because it is abused, and withdraws our souls from the speculation of that other to viler objects, so far Ficinus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But when a quarter to nine struck, and he saw old Thomas beginning to fidget about with the keys in his hand, he thought of the Doctor's parting monition, and stopped the cornopean at once, notwithstanding the loud-voiced remonstrances from all sides; and the crowd scattered away from the close, the eleven all going into the School-house, where supper and beds were provided for them by the Doctor's orders.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Then with a sharp cutting noise the bright spade came towards her, cutting a grip into the new, soft earth.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The great lords will refuse the English peasant his three acres and a cow on advanced grounds, if they cannot refuse it longer on reactionary grounds.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Whenever he had clothing of his own he would willingly undress and give it to those who were cold.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

I open the door irresolutely and go into the church.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Hierome Osorius, in his eleventh book of the deeds of Emanuel King of Portugal, to this effect hath a tragical narration of one Ferdinandus Chalderia, that wounded Gotherinus, a noble countryman of his, at Goa in the East Indies, [6164] and cut off one of his legs, for that he looked as he thought too familiarly upon his wife, which was afterwards a cause of many quarrels, and much bloodshed.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,"—there is the reason and the cause of it; for if they adored God in their hearts, they would understand the prophecies,— "and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of man.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

7 But before that, God had made this covenant with our father, Adam, in the same terms, before he came out of the garden, when he was by the tree where Eve took of the fruit and gave it to him to eat.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

“A school for boys and girls is to be built in the town and this school is my present.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Till 1899 the Communion formula of the "Ministerial Acts" of the General Synod contained a general invitation to all members of other Churches in good standing or to all who love the Lord Jesus.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

The superiority of American gunnery, in this combat, was placed beyond dispute.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

It is to Lake Champlain what a pretty, little, simpering, pink-and-white doll of a girl is to a magnificent woman, the royal sweep of whose robe about her faultless limbs as she moves, sets all the pulses wild.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

When I awake, if I awake, then I am on the other side, and then I will send you a greeting, if the gods allow it.
— from Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg

"And I'm sure you are sorry and will be ever so good and grateful in the future."
— from The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley

After dinner, Mrs Merton filled a large glass of wine, and giving it to Harry, bade him drink it up, but he thanked her, and said he was not dry.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

When there are two verbs in the same sentence, the first will (62 be in the gerund form and the other will be in the tense that is required by the sense of the sentence; e.g., core vo totte giqi ni mi ga comono ni vataxe 'take this and give it to my servant at once.'
— from Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Diego Collado

She did not blame Arthur Abner for sending her a good-looking young man; she had only a general idea that tutors in a house, and even visiting tutors, should smell of dust and wear a snuffy appearance.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

One of our men had been shot in the shoulder, another gored in the hip with a bayonet, and we left a young Briton dead on the shore.
— from D'Ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. by Irving Bacheller

He boldly avers, that, "The perpetual contradictions of the same or like words, in all the books , show that the authors had no distinct ideas of what is right, and what is wrong;" and ignorantly imagines, that, "The use of ible rather than able, in any case , originated in the necessity of keeping the soft sound of c and g , in the derivatives; and if ible was confined to that use, it would be an easy and simple rule."— Red Book , p. 170.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown