"Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Three men had plotted the robbery and murder of Mr. Higginbotham; two of them successively lost courage and fled, each delaying the crime one night by their disappearance; the third was in the act of perpetration, when a champion, blindly obeying the call of fate, like the heroes of old romance, appeared in the person of Dominicus Pike.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a word it was a holiday toilet; several whispered that it was too elaborate for the country and for every day.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Lastly came a few empty drozhkis.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

A certain contingency is taught by experience just as well as a certain uniformity; then we have no reason for assigning the one to causes and forces entirely different from those upon which the other depends.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

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— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Ship channels are buoyed and lighted, and therefore it is a comparatively easy undertaking to learn to run them; clear-water rivers, with gravel bottoms, change their channels very gradually, and therefore one needs to learn them but once; but piloting becomes another matter when you apply it to vast streams like the Mississippi and the Missouri, whose alluvial banks cave and change constantly, whose snags are always hunting up new quarters, whose sandbars are never at rest, whose channels are for ever dodging and shirking, and whose obstructions must be confronted in all nights and all weathers without the aid of a single light-house or a single buoy; for there is neither light nor buoy to be found anywhere in all this three or four thousand miles of villainous river.{footnote
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Fourthly, when she doth dissemble, and covertly and falsely either doth or saith anything.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Evidently a clean sweep was made of most of the memorial brasses in the church, and few escaped destruction.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

A cloud, as of grief, that had lowered over him, and had wrapped the last years of his life in gloom, seemed to clear away from Esmond during this fortunate voyage and campaign.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

No child of any age ever did less to improve his contemporaries, and few ever did more to prepare the way for such improvements.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Certain adverbs ( fatally , entirely ) do not logically admit of comparison.
— from The Century Handbook of Writing by Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones

"Then we will get the boat out, and row off and bait our hooks and try for fish; we have caught a few every day since we have been here.
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Christopher Coudrette , a French ecclesiastic, died.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

We can abstain from evil deeds, but when we have done them their consequences are beyond us, nor can we escape their punishment.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Francis Timoleon de Choisi , a French ecclesiastic, died.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

This fund was intrusted for distribution to the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland, acting under a committee appointed for each diocese, headed by the bishop.
— from The Irish Crisis by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Trevelyan

She had tried to bring an average of three changes apiece for eight different plays, knowing that summer audiences don’t like to see actresses wearing the same thing twice.
— from Peggy Goes Straw Hat by Virginia Hughes

They would probably levy on New York City for a billion dollars, and levy upon all the cities in the captured area for every dollar that could be squeezed from the inhabitants under threats of destruction.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim