Amongst aristocratic nations, social institutions recognize, in truth, no one in the family but the father; children are received by society at his hands; society governs him, he governs them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

All the members are more or less of equal status, and no superior is recognised.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And Job rent his mantle and fell down upon the ground and cried aloud, “Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return into the earth; [pg 321] the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[50] They, then, who lost their worldly all in the sack of Rome, if they owned their possessions as they had been taught by the apostle, who himself was poor without, but rich within,—that is to say, if they used the world as not using it,—could say in the words of Job, heavily tried, but not overcome: "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; as it pleased the Lord, so has it come to pass: blessed be the name of the Lord."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Perhaps I am not saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and so do you too!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We had husband and father, and children, and sisters, and friends, and relations, and house, and home, and many comforts of this life: but now we may say, as Job, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return: the Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

She sowed the storm and now she is reaping the whirlwind.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

The middle of April—the season of sunshine and of showers—usually dates their first appearance in the Gulf States, and from this time they are not slow in reaching their most northern homes.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

A story of the American colony and native society in Rome.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Formerly, just as now, some, in reply to the question of what ought to be taught, said that outside of the rudiments the most useful information for a primary school is obtained from the natural sciences; others, even as now, that that was not necessary, and was even injurious; even as now, some proposed history, or geography, while others denied their necessity; some proposed the Church-Slavic language and grammar, and religion, while others found that, too, superfluous, and ascribed a prime importance to "development.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"I laugh because your eyes certainly appear to be black, but they are not so in reality.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to Venice by Giacomo Casanova

It is actually in a ruinous condition, and no such institution really exists.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

"And now, shall I read to Your Majesty the story of which we spoke?" asked Harold, opening his basket and taking out the green-and-gold-volume.
— from Kisington Town by Abbie Farwell Brown

Oh, ay, we've getten a shed-full next to th' mistals, let alone th' stack at th' far-side o' th' yard; an' it's April now, so I reckon we shall see th' winter through.
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

Not only do the 75's blaze away merrily from morn till dewy eve, and again from dewy eve till morn, to a tune that turns our gunners green with envy, but the enemy are not slow in replying, and although they have not yet exactly found the little beggars (most cunningly concealed with green boughs and brushwood), yet they go precious near them with big shell and small shell, shrapnel and H.E.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

I am not sure I recall accurately.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission