He continued in this active and dignified employment some years, till the [231] coming in of the Six Articles, when, to preserve an unsullied conscience, he, as well as Dr. Shaxton, bishop of Salisbury, resigned.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

[9] hoy día el setenta y cinco por ciento de las lanas en la Argentina procede de lincolns y leicesters , puros o cruzados con merinos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

By good luck, you came along and pulled me off the stake, and from what you say I am sure the great Oz will give me brains as soon as we get to the Emerald City." i055 "I hope so," said Dorothy, earnestly, "since you seem anxious to have them."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The Pomos of California celebrate an expulsion of devils every seven years, at which the devils are represented by disguised men.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Then did they stand in battle-array in distinct bodies, and cast their darts regularly, and regularly defended themselves; nor did either side yield or grow weary.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

At last he came unto an yron doore, That fast was lockt, but key found not at all Emongst that bounch, to open it withall; 330 But in the same a little grate was pight, Through which he sent his voyce, and lowd did call With all his powre, to weet, if living wight Were housed there within, whom he enlargen might. XXXVIII Therewith an hollow, dreary, murmuring voyce 335 These pitteous plaints and dolours did resound; O who is that, which brings me happy choyce Of death, that here lye dying every stound, Yet live perforce in balefull darkenesse bound?
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

An observer, like you, upon life were, I fear, disagreeably employed, since you must have had much more to censure than to approve.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

"This is just what I have wanted to do, ever since you told me about it at the Sea-gull Light," whispered Karen, as they found seats in the boat and began the pleasant journey across the peaceful, shining water.
— from Gerda in Sweden by Etta Blaisdell McDonald

Without the doctor explicitly sending you down to the body of the house you are hardly under my jurisdiction, Mr. Muskerry.
— from Three Plays: The Fiddler's House, The Land, Thomas Muskerry by Padraic Colum

I believe she would have taken off those rags for you if you had spoken to her as 'Dexie,' for she really is obliging, you know, though she did enjoy seeing you made an April fool."
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

Let me put a hypothetical question: [ Pg 191] Suppose you had come to a point where your past life was nothing more to you than the life of another man—a man you hated as your deadliest enemy; suppose you lived in a world that was as different from the old one as though it had never existed; suppose a woman had guided you into that new world, would you, or would you not, turn your back on the old?
— from The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck

"A book of your writing, Monsieur Professeur, does not require much help from documentary evidence, since your personal authority is sufficient.
— from The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (Louis XVII) by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

I wanted to get up an argument with somebody I could sass back, because in my own house, where I was lord and master, if I happened to remark it was a nice, bright day everybody swore you couldn't see your hand before your face, and I let the subject drop right there.
— from Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips