Generally it is the custom for the speech at a veselija to be taken out of one of the books and learned by heart; but in his youthful days Dede Antanas used to be a scholar, and really make up all the love letters of his friends.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Where else ought we to seek it—where else can we find it?' Emily checked her tears, and followed her father to the parlour, where, the servants being assembled, St. Aubert read, in a low and solemn voice, the evening service, and added a prayer for the soul of the departed.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Judging from many traditionary anecdotes, this peculiar temper was hardly less than a monomania; or if the acts which it inspired were those of a sane person, it seemed due from Providence that pride so sinful should be followed by as severe a retribution.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and even that is intersected by a steep and rugged spur, leaving only a narrow and difficult passage along the very water’s edge.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

By a sudden and resolute assault he defeated the guards, and stormed the capital of the sultan, 25 who humbly sued for pardon and peace.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Of Robin Hood it was said— “So being outlawed (as ’tis told), He with a crew went forth Of lusty CUTTERS , bold and strong, And robbed in the north.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

I described to him an impudent fellow from Scotland, who affected to be a savage, and railed at all established systems.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I do not want to be a Sahib, and remember I did deliver that message.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

When ideals are hypostasised into powers alleged to provide for their own expression, the Life of Reason cannot be conceived; in theory its field of operation is pre-empted and its function gone, while in practice its inner impulses are turned awry by artificial stimulation and repression.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But, on the other hand, in spite of the jaundiced views of some of those who harangued the meetings, Gordon discerned that a half-dozen men were really in control—among them Collins and Bent—and that they were guided by a sincere and reasonably cautious ambition to procure scientific reforms.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

But even the waters, in their haste to be polite, could not course beneath the great bridge as swiftly as ran those women's tongues.
— from In and out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

Bar 3:16 Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth; Bar 3:17 They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

" Lightfoot bounded away swiftly and ran for some distance, then he turned and quickly, but very, very quietly, returned in the direction from which he had just come but a little to one side of his old trail.
— from Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Chrysostom makes a twofold division only, into body and soul, and reserves the word “spirit” to designate the Holy Spirit.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

But instead of standing quietly, Bab buffeted and stamped and roared, and the bees stung her terribly.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

We have often broken bread and sorrowed and rejoiced together, yet one of you, my dear disciples, one who is now eating with me as the rest are , intends to betray me!"
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

As for the bombs and shells against religion which the Tinker carried in his bag, Lenny was not induced to blow himself up with them.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

During this period of public confusion and domestic trouble, Taylor composed an ‘Apology for authorized and set Forms of Liturgy,’ published in 1646, and his great work, a ‘Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying,’ published in 1647, “the first attempt on record to conciliate the minds of Christians to the reception of a doctrine which, though now the rule of action professed by all Christian sects, was then, by all sects alike, regarded as a perilous and portentous novelty.”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin