Dismissing his guide at the gate, and in his impatience not even stopping to admire the thriving look of cottage or garden either, Nicholas made his way to the kitchen door, and knocked lustily with his stick.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Catholicism we have here is Paul’s Catholicism of Gentile engrafting —not Clement’s, of churchly order and uniformity ; nor Ignatius’, of monepiscopal rule .
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

" People who set apart a little while every morning or every afternoon for a definite purpose, and then never allow themselves to lose that time, making it up if they are interrupted by extra effort on the next day, soon surpass the brilliant people who are capable of great exertions now and then, but never do anything patiently day by day.
— from Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various

Wherefore, "Love, real love, is the consummation of great effort, neither more nor less."
— from Moral Poison in Modern Fiction by R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson

“Our father is in Heaven now, Forever free from care and pain; And, if a half-formed wish could bring His sainted spirit back again, “The selfish wish I would not breathe; ’Twould cloud with woe that placid brow, Round which a seraph seems to wreathe A crown of glory even now.
— from Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney

The passengers climbed out gratefully, each nurse loaded with her personal baggage.
— from Nancy Dale, Army Nurse by Ruby Lorraine Radford

It must also be noted that there are at least two allusions to the Wife of Bath's Preamble in the course of Group E; namely, in the Clerk's Tale, l. 1170, and in the Merchant's Tale, E 1685; and probably a third allusion in the Merchant End-link, E 2438.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

What is wanted at the Bank is not a new clerk to the directors—they have excellent clerks of great experience now—but a permanent equal to the directors, who shall be able to discuss on equal terms with them the business of the Bank, and have this advantage over them in discussion, that he has no other business than that of the Bank to think of.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot