For such thou art; from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid The attempt itself, intended by our foe.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Ilbrahim, it is true, was not a skilful controversialist, but the feeling of his religion was strong as instinct in him, and he could neither be enticed nor driven from the faith which his father had died for.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As though he began each new day in his healthy natural character, and some waking hours were necessary to his relapse into the corrupting influences of his wealth, the face and the demeanour of the Golden Dustman were generally unclouded at that meal.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Pleasure soon exhausts us, and itself also but endeavour never does.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

To whom with healing words Adam reply’d. Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve , For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid Th’ attempt it self, intended by our Foe.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Were not you here but even now, disguis'd? KING.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If his legitimacy could be established, no doubt he was the next male heir.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

But Englishmen never do that till they have been three years out from home.’
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

"But where could she be except next door?"
— from Barbara in Brittany by E. A. Gillie

He propounds many questions, but entertains no doubts as to God and heaven.
— from The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

But Coroner Benson expressed no doubt of his witness, but merely said casually: “Yet, on the occasion of the tragedy last night, you at once assumed the attitude of the head of the house.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells

Every feeling in his body, every nerve, disappeared in a crystalline hardness, for it seemed to him that the air was surcharged by a secret something between Betty and young Hansen.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

Upon the future of the comedy of intrigue and manners, Beaumont exercised no distinctive influence.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

We had no wish to exasperate a badly beaten enemy; nor did we wish to claim territorial aggrandisement beyond the recovery of our one-time province of Garace.
— from Victor Victorious by Cecil Starr Johns