If there is a man to be found who has to labor hard all day and has a life full of care, sanctification is just the experience he needs.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments, and the deadliest battles and wrecks, and the wildest fury of the elements, and the power of the sea, and the motion of Nature, and the throes of human desires, and dignity and hate and love?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"When the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn, appeared, he again lit his fire, milked his goats and ewes, all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; as soon as he had got through with all his work, he clutched up two more of my men, and began eating them for his morning's meal.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Her father had long been dead, and his armchair lay in the attic covered with dust and minus one leg.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He went; was seized with mortal illness there; was followed, the moment the intelligence reached Paris, by your mother who carried you with her; he died the day after her arrival, leaving no will— no will —so that the whole property fell to her and you.'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I after saying it is himself has me destroyed, and he a liar on walls, a talker of folly, a man you'd see stretched the half of the day in the brown ferns with his belly to the sun.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Dined at home, and Luellin and Blurton with me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

‘They are substantially true, young man,’ said Peter; ‘like the dreams of Bunyan, they are founded on three tremendous facts, Sin, Death, and Hell; and like his they have done incalculable good, at least in my own country, in the language of which they are written.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

"Well, I hope the old boy comes up to the scratch," he commented disrespectfully, adding hurriedly as Laura said good-bye to Nellie Bane and started toward them: "And, Billie, if you change your mind about what I asked you let me know.
— from Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance; Or, The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler

Lydia expressed this feeling while Rankin stood looking doubtfully at her, a little daunted by the pretty relentlessness of her insistence.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

To dream of parsley, denotes hard-earned success, usually the surroundings of the dreamer are healthful and lively.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

That evening Charles and Marston retired to Charles's study (a deal of study had been carried on there, you may depend), and had a long talk over future prospects.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

" It now became clear to every soul in the house, except poor Amelia, that Rebecca should take her departure, and high and low (always with the one exception) agreed that that event should take place as speedily as possible.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Your eyes are dark; and hers are light, with dark rims around the seeing part, and she just comes to your shoulder; but you look so nice together.
— from The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher

Indeed, as the afternoon wore by and the light slowly faded, I became dejected, feeling that at last I had fallen hopelessly into the hands of enemies who had resolved that, walled up in that sepulchre, I should endure the tortures of hunger and thirst, and afterwards die a horrible and lingering death.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

A few short moments past I came From the pit door and heard a loud applause.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook