Now, therefore, since I am suspected by those very men whose being is owing to my labors, come thou, as it is reasonable to hope thou wilt; thou, I say, who showedst me that fire at mount Sinai, and madest me to hear its voice, and to see the several wonders which that place afforded thou who commandedst me to go to Egypt, and declare thy will to this people; thou who disturbest the happy estate of the Egyptians, and gavest us the opportunity of flying away from out under them, and madest the dominion of Pharaoh inferior to my dominion; thou who didst make the sea dry land for us, when we knew not whither to go, and didst overwhelm the Egyptians with those destructive waves which had been divided for us; thou who didst bestow upon us the security of weapons when we were naked; thou who didst make the fountains that were corrupted to flow, so as to be fit for drinking, and didst furnish us with water that came out of the rocks, when we were in want of it; thou who didst preserve our lives with [quails, which was] food from the sea, when the fruits of the ground failed us; thou didst send us such food from heaven as had never been seen before; thou who didst suggest to us the knowledge of thy laws, and appoint to us a form of government,—come thou, I say, O Lord of the whole world, and that as such a Judge and a Witness to me as cannot be bribed, and show how I never admitted of any gift against justice from any of the Hebrews; and have never condemned a man that ought to have been acquitted, on account of one that was rich; and have never attempted to hurt this commonwealth.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But she is blissful, and she hears it not; Among the other primal creatures gladsome She turns her sphere, and blissful she rejoices.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

[3750] S. Hierome esteems him rich that hath bread to eat, and a potent man that is not compelled to be a slave; hunger is not ambitious, so that it have to eat, and thirst doth not prefer a cup of gold.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Chivalry bids him give way to the wishes and desires of some woman or other, and if he be a sportsman he is necessarily chivalrous.
— from The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman

“Our poor Father Christopher,” said Lucy, “pray for his soul, although we may be almost sure he is now in heaven, praying for us.”
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

There the higher races of man extend protection and hospitality to the stranger within their gates, and being a stranger here I naturally assumed that a like courtesy would be accorded me.
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Just, however, as we were shooting ahead of the lumber wain, an exclamation from Tom Draw, which should have been a sentence, had it not been very abruptly terminated in a long rattling eructation, arrested Archer's progress.
— from Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert

"A gentleman visited a prisoner; and, pointing to him, said to the bystanders, "'Brothers and sisters have I none; But this man's father was my father's son.'
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

Further, the Blackstone occupies a position, with regard to the fashionable life of Chicago, which is not paralleled by any single hotel in New York.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street

The individual reflected a second, and said like sad: 'I not am but a stranger here, I no have not a frog; but if I of it had one, I would embrace the bet.' 'Strong, well!'
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Her high, clear soprano voice rose to what would have been a scream had it not possessed so pure a musical quality.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

He hears the breakfast bell, but he is just now engaged, and thinks, “ There’s time enough yet,—I’ll just finish what I’ve begun ;” and so he is not in season for the table.
— from How to Be a Man A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb