This is none other than Onesimus, whom Philemon will remember only as a worthless creature, altogether untrue to his name, but who now is a reformed man.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Then, Mr Wegg, in a dry unflinching way, entered on his task; going straight across country at everything that came before him; taking all the hard words, biographical and geographical; getting rather shaken by Hadrian, Trajan, and the Antonines; stumbling at Polybius (pronounced Polly Beeious, and supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman virgin, and by Mrs Boffin to be responsible for that necessity of dropping it); heavily unseated by Titus Antoninus Pius; up again and galloping smoothly with Augustus; finally, getting over the ground well with Commodus: who, under the appellation of Commodious, was held by Mr Boffin to have been quite unworthy of his English origin, and 'not to have acted up to his name' in his government of the Roman people.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This day my Lord Anglesey, our new Treasurer, come the first time to the Board, and there sat with us till noon; and I do perceive he is a very notable man, and understanding, and will do things regular, and understand them himself, not trust Fenn, as Sir G. Carteret did, and will solicit soundly for money, which I do fear was Sir G. Carteret’s fault, that he did not do that enough, considering the age we live in, that nothing will do but by solicitation, though never so good for the King or Kingdom, and a bad business well solicited shall, for peace sake, speed when a good one shall not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For if there be but one, neither can that spherical motion be of any use to him, nor motion from one place to another, as Plato proves: “That there is neither generation nor corruption in nature.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

and so They have not one more invention left wherewith to amuse us They have not the courage to suffer themselves to be corrected They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine They juggle and trifle in all their discourses at our expense They must be very hard to please, if they are not contented
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The common executioner, Whose heart th' accustom'd sight of death makes hard, Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They took the master-keys from our hands, stared at them for a moment and advised us to have new locks made, with the greatest secrecy, for the rooms, closets and presses that we might wish to have hermetically closed.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

As to the prognostics and headshaking of his aunts and uncles, they had never produced the least effect on him, except to make him think that aunts and uncles were disagreeable society; he had heard them find fault in much the same way as long as he could remember.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Petronella replied, that as unfortunately they had no children, the best thing he could do, was to build hospitals and endow churches.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

But by this time Sir W. Batten was come to be in much pain in his foot, so as he was forced to be carried down in a chair to the barge again, and so away to Deptford, and there I a little in the yard, and then to Bagwell’s, where I find his wife washing, and also I did ‘hazer tout que je voudrais con’ her, and then sent for her husband, and discoursed of his going to Harwich this week to his charge of the new ship building there, which I have got him, and so away, walked to Redriffe, and there took boat and away home, and upon Tower Hill, near the ticket office, meeting with my old acquaintance Mr. Chaplin, the cheesemonger, and there fell to talk of news, and he tells me that for certain the King of France is denied passage with his army through Flanders, and that he hears that the Dutch do stand upon high terms with us, and will have a promise of not being obliged to strike the flag to us before they will treat with us, and other high things, which I am ashamed of and do hope will never be yielded to.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Several opening or closing parentheses and quotation marks are unmatched; Transcriber has not attempted to determine where they belong.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

They do not see that they are “using the Holy Name in the shameful abuse they practise with their ‘Scham Hamperes.’”
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

She put it around her apron, tying it fast; then, blousing the blue denim in front to a pouch like a fashion-plate shirt waist, she said in an undertone to her neighbor on the right: "Gee—look!
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

I climbed into the ’ricksha and stowed myself away under the hood, naming the inn which had been appointed by cablegram for the meeting place.
— from Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland

"As for me," Step Hen added, "I don't feel a whit sleepy right now; and my eyes are as starey as a cat's, or Jim's over yonder," pointing to where he had managed to fasten the captive owl, which he had persisted in carrying ashore, despite the fact that he had about all the burden any boy would care to carry when compelled to wade through water almost up to his neck.
— from The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island; or, Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

It would be hours before anything happened, and until then he needed all the rest he could get.
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

If at Dover he found no vessel ready to sail, then he was bound daily to walk into the sea up to his knees—or, according to stricter authorities, up to his neck—and to take his rest only on the shore, in proof that he was ready in spirit to leave the land which by his crimes he had forfeited.
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

The difficulties—sometimes there were even serious difficulties—of visiting places where there was neither provision nor protection made for the stranger, always acted upon him not as deterrent but incentive: he liked something to overcome, and found the safe, comfortable, convenient resting-places as uncongenial to his nature as they were unproductive for the purposes of his work.
— from The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman

But," he said more gravely, "the prince is not a man to cumber himself with persons who are useless to him, nor to keep about his person any save those upon whose fidelity he is convinced that he can rely.
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

No sooner was this the case than the note of a horn was heard, and as if by magic their assailants instantly darted away into the night, leaving the superstitious Danes in some doubt whether the whole attack upon them had not been of a supernatural nature.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty