For the sake o’ your feller-creeturs, keep yourself as quiet as you can; only think what a loss you would be!’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Behind this first circle of tents was another, less imposing, which reached round the camp-ground to the speakers’ stand.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

[596] We should ask the reader to compare this scientific attitude with the almost identical attitude taken up with respect to the [Pg 480] Sidhe Races and the constitution of their world and life by the Irish mystic and seer (pp. 60 ff. ).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Thus the capital of the world at length submitted to the yoke of slavery it had imposed on others, and the very day of its fall was the eve of that on which it conferred on one of its citizens the title of Arbiter of Good Taste.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we treat of the special expressions of man, the latter part of our first Principle, as given at the commencement of this chapter, will be seen to hold good; namely, that when movements, associated through habit with certain states of the mind, are partially repressed by the will, the strictly involuntary muscles, as well as those which are least under the separate control of the will, are liable still to act; and their action is often highly expressive.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

6.9. Ἕως, conj., of time, while, as long as, Jno. 9.4; until, Mat. 2.9.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

But what is blameworthy is, that they who themselves revolt from the conduct of the wicked, and live in quite another fashion, yet spare those faults in other men which they ought to reprehend and wean them from; and spare them because
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The leading commercial coffees of the world are listed in the accompanying commercial coffee chart, which shows at a glance their general trade character.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

All the length of his Visit he had been meeting more and more of the harshness and conflict of this world, and losing touch with the glorious altitudes of his own.)
— from The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

To Cesario he told the long and unsuccessful suit he had made to one, who, rejecting his long services, and despising his person, refused to admit him to her presence; and for the love of this lady who had so unkindly treated him, the noble Orsino, forsaking the sports of the field, and all manly exercises in which he used to delight, passed his hours in ignoble sloth, listening to the effeminate sounds of soft music, gentle airs, and passionate love songs; and neglecting the company of the wise and learned lords with whom he used to associate, he was now all day long conversing with young Cesario.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

The vast amphibious city of Tenochtitlan, when at length the Conquerors reached it, confirmed the impression that the land of which it was the capital was another wider and richer Spain.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

A Darling Of Misfortune A shabby but joyous citizen of the world at large was Mr. Phelan Harrihan, as, with a soul wholly in tune with the finite, he half sat and half reclined on a baggage-truck at Lebanon Junction.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

The farmer stipulated, in his turn, that cart, horse and lad were not to pass the barrier, that the boy should walk at the horse's head, and that the cart was to contain only two women and little Claribel.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

The cries of the woman at length brought some persons to ascertain what was the matter.
— from Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

The Roman orator appears to have formed a pretty distinct idea of the shape and connexions of the windpipe and lungs; and though he informs his readers that he knows the alimentary canal, he omits the details through motives of delicacy.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The best way I have found for cooking this delicious game bird is, first, after cleaning, to cut off the wings and legs, as, [Pg 70] with the back, these parts are of little account; next, split the birds in the centre, taking out the breast-bone, and you have two heavy pieces; if the bird is large, divide again; do not wash, but wipe with a damp cloth.
— from Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes by H. J. Clayton

To reject Christ, not to believe in Christ, to be enemies of Christ, to despise Christ, to be ignorant of Christ, to lose Christ, to be commanded at the last to depart from Christ—these are the characteristics of the wicked and lost: for "there is no other name given among men whereby man can be saved than the name of Jesus Christ."
— from Parish Papers by Norman Macleod

The black-cock, the true children of the wilderness, are lying close among the heather.
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight