" The earl remained silent; and first, after a long pause, he said, "If thou wilt rather, Thorkel, that I shall judge between us than trust to the king's judgment, then let the beginning of our reconciliation be, that you go with me to the Orkney Islands, live with me, and never leave me but with my will, and be bound to defend my land, and execute all that I want done, as long as we both are in life.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

You know I'm going to do a lone adventure—and some people might think it wrong—I don't.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It is a common artifice of politicians, when they would affect any person very much by a matter of fact, of which they intend to inform him, first to excite his curiosity; delay as long as possible the satisfying it; and by that means raise his anxiety and impatience to the utmost, before they give him a full insight into the business.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

On the one hand, no one can be called dying, if a man cannot be dying and living at the same time; and as long as the soul is in the body, we cannot deny that he is living.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe, devourd 980 By Death at last, and miserable it is To be to others cause of misery, Our own begotten, and of our Loines to bring Into this cursed World a woful Race, That after wretched Life must be at last Food for so foule a Monster, in thy power It lies, yet ere Conception to prevent The Race unblest, to being yet unbegot.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Indeed, this view was elaborately defended by a professor at Dublin as late as the year 1838.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The speech which Robespierre addressed to the convention was as menacing as the first distant rustle of the hurricane, and dark and lurid as the eclipse which announces its approach.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Availing myself of this permission, which was given with a warm shake of the hand, I sat thinking about Dora, and looking at the sunlight stealing from the chimney-pots down the wall of the opposite house, until Mr. Jorkins came.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... “Bolkónski!”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Black Smoke drifted slowly riverward all through Monday morning, creeping nearer and nearer to us, driving at last along the roadway outside the house that hid us.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He drew a long and laboured breath, disengaged himself from her arms, and putting down his feet, sat up on the couch.
— from Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

As I took precisely this view of the business, and as Augustus has paid me such honor, and shown me such partiality [734] as few have found with him for many years, it occurred to me that if I threw my unclaimed and unexpected interest into the same scale wherein your just demands already lay—" "Ah kind and generous friend!" interrupted Paulus; "I understand."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

There was not probably a girl in all Italy, in all the world, who would so implicitly have followed his directions, as long as to do so gratified her passions, and clash
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

The dramatic society and the reviews which the Volunteers occasionally attended at London, York, Doncaster and Liverpool all tended to make my connection with the Volunteer corps very pleasant and enjoyable; and I can truly say that in those days it was regarded a great privilege to be a Volunteer.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The walls of the moat were built by labor of the feudal dependencies, and like all such labor it spared no pains to be splendid.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

—The weather conditions in the lower Columbia River region are a standing invitation to outdoor life during a long and delightful summer.
— from The Guardians of the Columbia Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens by John H. (John Harvey) Williams