And now since you see that he is received into this tabernacle, we shall first of all stand in need of one that may officiate for us, and may minister to the sacrifices, and to the prayers that are to be put up for us.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

we have of our own at home, and great plenty of good things there, together with the natural, affectionate parents and friends; nor is it out of our want of any such things that we came to discourse with you; nor did we admit of your invitation with design to prostitute the beauty of our bodies for gain; but taking you for brave and worthy men, we agreed to your request, that we might treat you with such honors as hospitality required: and now seeing you say that you have a great affection for us, and are troubled when you think we are departing, we are not averse to your entreaties; and if we may receive such assurance of your good-will as we think can be alone sufficient, we will be glad to lead our lives with you as your wives; but we are afraid that you will in time be weary of our company, and will then abuse us, and send us back to our parents, after an ignominious manner."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

a noble, struggling young spirit persecuted by misfortune, but bravely and patiently waiting in the shadow of a dread calamity and preparing to meet the blow as became one who was all too used to hard fortune and the pitiless buffetings of fate.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

It was already nearly seventeen years since he had received from the king, on November 7, 1465, the comet year,* that fine charge of the provostship of Paris, which was reputed rather a seigneury than an office.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“Yes, perhaps they do,” said East; “there's a new set you see, mostly, who don't feel sure of themselves yet.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Sweet Princes, what I did, I did in honour, Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul; And never shall you see that I will beg A ragged and forestall'd remission.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Do not dwell upon your ailments nor study your symptoms.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“Ah! noble sir,” young Selby said, And finger on his lip he laid, “This man knows much—perchance e’en more Than he could learn by holy lore.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

By this, however, so much is gained, that every one who has afterwards neglected singing, yet still retains a notion of it.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

Others, again, which are not similar, yet stand in relation to one another.
— from Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by of Magdeburg Mechthild

“There are no signs yet, sir.
— from O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables

The courteous contest—"You say it," and "No, sir, you say it," is sometimes not a little amusing.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

He pictured himself as she must be picturing him: a noble, struggling young spirit persecuted by misfortune, but bravely and patiently waiting in the shadow of a dread calamity and preparing to meet the blow as became one who was all too used to hard fortune and the pitiless buffetings of fate.
— from The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Charles Dudley Warner

And now suppose you show us chambers where we can sleep, so we can be fresh tomorrow for the beginning of the slaying."
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

and Hiawatha and Nokomis said: "Yes, sing, Chibiabos, that our guests may enjoy themselves all the more, and our feast may pass more gayly!"
— from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And now, sir, your surprise.
— from Telling Fortunes by Cards A Symposium of the Several Ancient and Modern Methods as Practiced by Arab Seers and Sibyls and the Romany Gypsies by Mohammed Ali