[350] Now, I saw in my dream, when all these things were finished, Mr. Great-heart took the head of Giant Despair, and set it upon a pole by the highway-side, right over against the pillar that Christian erected for a caution to pilgrims that came after to take heed of entering into his grounds.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Think not that you can ever find a church to receive you, if it be known that you defended a proven witch and turned Devil’s Advocate.”
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs

As the Negro in the groove ('in his place') has the self-interest of the capitalist class on his side, while, aspiring to be as others are, he finds his erstwhile friends and chronic enemies forming a cordon to prevent his rise, it has been suggested that political advancement be made a secondary consideration.
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

[Pg 15] CHAPTER III CAMP EQUIPMENT FOR A CANOE TRIP Personal likes and prejudices have much to do with the form of tent chosen.
— from Packing and Portaging by Dillon Wallace

—It is comparatively easy for a clergyman to preach to a full audience; but the test which shows whether one's heart is in his work, is to get up and face a thin congregation, and yet deliver his message with an earnestness which shows that he has a realizing sense of the value of even one soul.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

The slippered possessor, in all the consequence of his grade , immediately determined that no man should turn him out of his quarters, unless he could establish fully a claim to a rank superior to his own—and that too pretty clearly; in which resolution he began to stride across the chamber with becoming dignity.
— from The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home by William Maginn

Jean's great ambition was to hit some of the pipes in the shooting-gallery, and win a wonderful knife that contained everything from a corkscrew to a file.
— from Our Little French Cousin by Blanche McManus

The measures urged in Justice for immediate adoption as remedies for the evils of existing society were: Free Compulsory Education for all classes, together with the provision of at least one wholesome meal a day in each school.
— from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary

[Pg 11] travel, it will be found convenient further to subdivide this branch of the subject and discuss in order: (a) The Canoe and its Equipment; (b) Camp Equipment for a Canoe Trip; (c) Personal Equipment; (d) Food; (e) The Portage.
— from Packing and Portaging by Dillon Wallace

That counterworks each folly and caprice; That disappoints the effect of every vice;— All Virtue's ends from Vanity's can raise; Which seeks no interest, no reward but praise; And build on wants, and on defects of mind, The joy, the peace, the glory of mankind.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown