{209} Now, when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him.
— 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

For he who grants what not one of his enemies expects, because the guilt that is on their conscience is so great, beyond a doubt carries off the prize for virtue: for while he tempers justice with what is nobler and more merciful, in self-restraint he surpasses those who are merely moderate in their vengeance; and in courage he excels because he thinks no enemy worthy of notice; and his wisdom he displays by suppressing enmities and by not handing them down to his sons and descendants on the pretext of strict justice, or of wishing, and very reasonably too, to blot out the seed of the wicked like the seed of a pine-tree.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness: no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On examining them carefully, however, I saw that there was a difference between them that had at first escaped my attention, viz. that one of the tables, that to the left as we entered the cave, had evidently been used, not to eat upon, but for the purposes of embalming.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But passion scorned, becomes a power: alas! who courts his end By drawing sword amidst these waves?
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The argument, therefore, drawn from Cicero’s revisal, so far from confirming the principle of Lucretius, affords the strongest tacit declaration against their validity; because a period sufficient for mature consideration had elapsed, before Cicero published his own admirable system of philosophy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"Most ugly shapes and horrible aspects, Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see, Or shame, that ever should so fowle defects From her most cunning hand escaped bee; All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Farewell to the glory and heraldry of England!—I turned from such vanity with a slight feeling of wonder, at how mankind could have ever been interested in such things.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If Bacon had completed his intended work upon “Sympathy and Antipathy,” the constant hatred evinced by ignorance of intellectual superiority, originating sometimes in the painful feeling of inferiority, sometimes in the fear of worldly injury would not have escaped his notice.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

On the other hand, should the Opposition succeed, in which, besides his brother, were his wife’s nephew, the Duke of Grafton, 473 and his old friends, whom he had already offended by not 408 acting with them, what could he expect but, at best, the humiliating circumstance of being saved by his brother whom he had abandoned?
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

After this brief colloquy she closed her eyes, but for some time the low moans of pain continued.
— from A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

"In your letter, sir, you are so good as to say, that it is in some measure owing to the personal affection felt for me by your countrymen, that this liberality has exceeded any which in similar circumstances has ever been exhibited; and you appeal to my own experience in the support of this assertion.
— from Private Papers of William Wilberforce by William Wilberforce

Outside of pure mathematics it can hardly ever be the case that the premises from which we reason are held with absolute conviction.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

Edward, who, both as king and Englishman, was almost overwhelmed with a sense of responsibility [Pg 78] as he thought of the duty he owed to the brave men who had placed themselves in jeopardy to assert his rights, scarcely closed his eyes, but waited with impatience the break of day to make the attempt on which seemed to hang the fate of his army and his own reputation as a war-chief.
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

A figure, which had been hidden by the rails of the altar, with these words rose, and stretching forth her clasped hands, exclaimed, "But Thou, who knowest I had no blame in this, wilt not afflict me by his danger!
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Don Juan's position and Spanish predilections naturally made his relation acceptable to the faculty; but Clarence could not help perceiving that Father Sobriente, the Principal, regarded him at times with a thoughtful curiosity that made him suspect that his cousin had especially bespoken that attention, and that he occasionally questioned him on his antecedents in a way that made him dread a renewal of the old questioning about his progenitor.
— from A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte

So Plato's Republic is still on paper, for no set of rules minutely regulating conduct has ever been enforced except as the ruler made his subjects believe he received his instructions direct from God.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard