If Prayers Could alter high Decrees, I to that place Would speed before thee, and be louder heard, That on my head all might be visited, Thy frailtie and infirmer Sex forgiv'n, To me committed and by me expos'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The climate affected his dye; it did very well in Russia, but it was no go here.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He surveys at one glance and severally all the beings of whom mankind is composed, and he discerns in each man the resemblances which assimilate him to all his fellows, and the differences which distinguish him from them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I informed him of my professional connection with the Herncastle family, not forgetting the curious position which I had occupied towards the Colonel and his Diamond in the bygone time.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

It is natural that Timon, speaking to Alcibiades and two courtezans, should inveigh in particular against sexual vices and corruption, as he does in the terrific passage iv.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The gentleman should break out through the footman, which is not the case as he does it.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Everyone expected an explosion on Carlini’s part; but to their great surprise, he took a glass in one hand and a flask in the other, and filling it,— “‘Your health, Diavolaccio,’ said he calmly, and he drank it off, without his hand trembling in the least.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Well, there came a happy day in Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's existence when this angel was admitted into the paradise of a Court which she coveted, her sister-in-law acting as her godmother.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He died May, 1667, and was succeeded by Clement IX.] whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This work of genius, designed by Rietschel, and completed after his death in A.D. 1857 by his pupils, and inaugurated on 25th June, A.D. 1868, represents all the chief episodes in the Reformation history.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Van Cheele, contrary to his usual wont, did not feel disposed to be communicative about his discovery in the wood.
— from Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches by Saki

[Pg 101] "Ta, ta, there's my call," and he dashed into the boathouse where his cr
— from Frank Armstrong at College by Matthew M. Colton

So she had her people dressed in their best, and her best wines, plate, and furniture from Castlewood by sea at no small charge, and her dress in which she had been married in George II.'s reign, and we all flattered ourselves that our coach made the greatest figure of any except his Excellency's, and we engaged Signor Formicalo, his Excellency's major-domo, to superintend the series of feasts that were given in my honour; and more fleshpots were set a-stewing in our kitchens in one month, our servants said, than had been known in the family since the young gentlemen went away.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

Each patrol goes separately about its preparations for camping and hiking, does its shopping, repairs its tents, denounces and ridicules its associate patrols, and troop unity gives way somewhat to patrol unity.
— from Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

His Holiness seemed to have changed; he was constantly at work with the six cardinals he had appointed to draw up plans for the reform of the Church, and he declared in consistory that henceforth family considerations and projects would have no weight with him.
— from Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance by John Leslie Garner

From the standpoint of personal experience he could fairly criticise, as he did in conversation some few years before his death, Cardinal Newman's dictum that "conversion is a leap in the dark."
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

He was there to denounce tyranny and crime; and he did it.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner