When the Commissioners were coming he told the Witches they should not fear them; for he would certainly kill them all.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When I had thanked him in her name and mine for his considerate kindness to both of us, we passed next to the subject of his wedding tour, and began to talk of the English society in Rome to which Laura was to be introduced.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The noble princess, pained with woe Which till that hour she ne'er could know, Tears in her heavy trouble shed, But not a word to me she said.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

While, the "Army of the Tennessee," under Generals Grant and C. F. Smith, was operating up the Tennessee River, another force, styled the "Army of the Mississippi," commanded by Major-General John Pope, was moving directly down the Mississippi River, against that portion of the rebel line which, under Generals Polk and Pillow, had fallen back from Columbus, Kentucky, to Island Number Ten and New Madrid.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

When he has explained to himself or others what he means by ‘the soul’s exerting innate notions,’ or their ‘exerting themselves;’ and what that ‘previous cultivation and circumstances’ in order to their being exerted are—he will I suppose find there is so little of controversy between him and me on the point, bating that he calls that ‘exerting of notions’ which I in a more vulgar style call ‘knowing,’ that I have reason to think he brought in my name on this occasion only out of the pleasure he has to speak civilly of me; which I must gratefully acknowledge he has done everywhere he mentions me, not without conferring on me, as some others have done, a title I have no right to.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

"Crushing! Killing!" "That's what they are meant to be!"
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

It is commonly known that the early forms of legal procedure were grounded in vengeance.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Adam had during that time refused to have any children, knowing that he would only rear inmates of hell.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But, unfortunately, her explanations were so vivid that her audience were fired with a desire to enact some of the scenes portrayed, and no persuasions could keep them from playing Ark on the spot.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Fourteen cabbage seeds were left for three days on leaves and excited [page 387] much secretion; they were then placed on damp sand under conditions known to be favourable for germination.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

The situation was so terrible that for a few moments I stood looking across the waste of water, seeing nothing but a man locked in his cabin, knowing that the ship was sinking, and battling vainly for life.
— from A Cabinet Secret by Guy Boothby

[64] "Not only did the Grand-Duke and the Cardinal keep their good relationship with Orsini, but also interested themselves in appeasing his creditors, and gave some system to his embarrassed economy.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

This argument suggests that, since our only reason for supposing two facts to be causally connected is that we have found them constantly conjoined in [Pg 161] the past, and since it does not follow from the fact that they have been conjoined ever so many times, that they always will be so, therefore we cannot know that they always will be so, and hence cannot know that they are causally connected.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

I said, "Though he bar with gold his silver door," a man cannot keep the wife who loves him not.
— from My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper

What can a little company keeping the seventh day hope to accomplish against all the world who are keeping Sunday?”
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Certainly the violet was not made in vain—and in the Eternal Correspondence known to higher intelligences than our own, there surely must exist a grand and beautiful Flower lore, wherein each blossom has an individual word to speak, a lesson to unfold, by form and coloring, and, more than all, by exhaled fragrance.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Through the night they drifted, the current keeping them just offshore.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

Discomfortable Cousin, knowest thou not, That when the searching Eye of Heauen is hid Behind the Globe, that lights the lower World, Then Theeues and Robbers raunge abroad vnseene, In Murthers and in Out-rage bloody here: But when from vnder this Terrestriall Ball He fires the prowd tops of the Easterne Pines, And darts his Lightning through eu'ry guiltie hole, Then Murthers, Treasons, and detested sinnes (The Cloake of Night being pluckt from off their backs) Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselues.
— from Richard II by William Shakespeare

Mr. Chambers has died in the interim, and cannot know the result of the work he set afloat with so much spirit.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills