I remembered how on the night before and after the Sabbath, when my family was about me, and relations and neighbors with us, we could pray and sing, and then refresh our bodies with the good creatures of God; and then have a comfortable bed to lie down on; but instead of all this, I had only a little swill for the body and then, like a swine, must lie down on the ground.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

306 As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because might rules all, they exist everywhere and always.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

"For these reasons, therefore, Cebes, those who are truly lovers of wisdom are moderate and resolute, and not for the reasons that most people say.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Then the Duke dismounted and, watched by pale-faced esquires and men-at-arms, came and knelt beside his brother, and laid aside his brother's riven helm and, beholding his comely features torn and marred and his golden hair all hatefully bedabbled, felt his heart burst in sunder, and he groaned, and rising to stumbling feet came to his horse and mounted and rode away 'neath grim portcullis and over echoing drawbridge, yet, whithersoever he looked, he saw only his brother's dead face, pale and bloody.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

“The poor receive the gospel” (Matt. xi. 5), when those that are more acute, and furnished with a more apprehensive reason, are not touched by it.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

These are people to whom music is as much a rarity as Nesselrode to a newsboy.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes

As Bradford on one side was formally giving in his submission, and, on finding that {138} his speech at Redstone had put him outside the amnesty, made a rapid and narrow escape down the Ohio to Louisiana, on the other side an army of fifteen thousand men was approaching, and the conditions of proffered amnesty could not be fulfilled for lack of time.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

A similar experience is thus related by Capt. Heasley, of Liverpool: "After passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, the second officer, who had charge of the deck, gave the order to 'port,' much to my astonishment, for the lights to be seen about a point on the starboard bow were a masthead and green light, but he maintained that it was a masthead and red, and not until both ships were nearly abreast would he acknowledge his mistake.
— from Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

“If you say another word I’ll lick you!” He was mad clear through, and made a rush at Ned.
— from The Motor Boys Overland; Or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune by Clarence Young

Mr. Churchill, who is always meditating a romance and never producing one, and while musing over the idea is unconscious of the romance developing under his very eyes, is a good illustration of the motto of the work⁠— rend=';' “The flighty purpose never is o’ertook, Unless the deed go with it.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

He had been a month and more at Roederay and now the equinoctial gales were over, she meant to be off southwards.
— from In the Tideway by Flora Annie Webster Steel

But unhappily, a month afterwards, retiring at night from his uncle's chamber, he left the door open behind him: the old man tore his will, and being then perceptibly declining, for want of time to deliberate, left his money to a trading company.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson