Yes; my wife and children saw me at the first, and called after me to turn again; also, some of my neighbours stood crying and calling after me to return; but I put my fingers in my ears, and so came on my way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Why is this peach-tree said to be better than that other; but because it produces more or better fruit?
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

They create such conditions as enable the invisible life-force to begin its physical manifestation.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

While they were both in pleasant mood, wending their way homewards, and the uncle whistling the tune of a song he had learnt in his young days, they suddenly heard a peculiar sound which seemed to come from the top of the mountain.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Bab ini pri mengatahui taʿ[bir] mimpi baik dan jahat: maka lihat pada huruf-nya itu, pertama melihat huruf mula-nya barang mana kita handak katahui supaya beruleh kabajikan insha’ Allah taʿala beruleh salamat.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She and Janey knew every fold of the Beaufort mystery, but in public Mrs. Archer continued to assume that the subject was not one for the unmarried.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

But in practice much more was retained.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

While the servants were busied in providing materials, the surgeon, who imputed the backwardness which had appeared in Sophia to her fears, began to comfort her with assurances that there was not the least danger; for no accident, he said, could ever happen in bleeding, but from the monstrous ignorance of pretenders to surgery, which he pretty plainly insinuated was not at present to be apprehended.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But the devil in this was that the very basis itself put marrying out of the question.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Plenty of women have lived alone before in places more dangerous than [140] this, and have gotten along very well, too.
— from The Gold Girl by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

"But it pleases me; and when you reach my zareba, all that is mine to
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

His chambers are close by, in Pall Mall.
— from My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins

But it proved more difficult to write than he imagined, and it was some time before—having succeeded to his satisfaction—he brought the letter to his uncle for criticism.
— from Barbara in Brittany by E. A. Gillie

The gregarious nesting habit may be of benefit in permitting maximum utilization of choice nesting sites, where such sites are in short supply in an environment otherwise favorable.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

But it prevented Mr. Rhett from going on and making an immediate attack upon the pirate vessel, the topmasts of which could be plainly seen behind a high headland some distance up the river.
— from Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Richard Stockton

4:13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Since I am an unmarried man, it would be in better form for you not to live in my house, but I pledge myself to provide for your maintenance in a suitable and respectable family.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Suffer me, then, to ask you to retire; for by the signal of that bell, I perceive my old friend, your mother, to be close at hand.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson