The fact that Herbert's reputation was greater, at times, than Milton's, and that his poems when published after his death had a large sale and influence, shows certainly that he appealed to the men of his age; and his poems will probably be read and appreciated, if only by the few, just so long as men are strong enough to understand the Puritan's spiritual convictions.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

“Put the case, Pip, that passion and the terror of death had a little shaken the woman's intellects, and that when she was set at liberty, she was scared out of the ways of the world, and went to him to be sheltered.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He reared up a new trade of life, and in the same house he procured all the cut-purses about the city, to repair to his house; there was a school-house set up to learn young boys to cut purses: two devices were hung up; one was a pocket, and another was a purse; the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The woman who manages a dairy has a large share in making the rent, so she may well be allowed to have her opinion on stock and their “keep”—an exercise which strengthens her understanding so much that she finds herself able to give her husband advice on most other subjects.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

l. 1 , to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief; and though her husband did all he could possibly to give her content, in a discontented humour at length she hanged herself.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They demanded hostages and large sums of money, required the largest ships and the chief men to be given up, and would not wait for an answer from the envoys' country but sent out one of the consuls immediately to take possession of those things and make war upon them if they failed to give,—as proved to be the case.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

THEN all the estates and degrees high and low said of Sir Launcelot great worship, for the honour that he did unto Sir Tristram; and for that honour doing to Sir Tristram he was at that time more praised and renowned than an he had overthrown five hundred knights; and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Her eyelids blew And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew At last she up gan lift: with trembling cheare
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The valley seemed filled with a delicate haze, almost like smoke.
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

"Yes, I did have a letter," she said, determined that Archie should be more direct than this.
— from Across the Stream by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

An hospital is a word of no inviting sound—and physic, no doubt, is sufficiently nauseous to be not inaptly compared to flogging, or any other punitive discipline: but nauseous drugs are not the only means of cure; good nursing, vigilant attendance, sometimes generous diet, have a large share in the curative process.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Or, which was more likely, that he had forgiven him? Wishing perhaps to gloss it over and thus do her a last service?
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

"For a long time Blue-fox sought, but did not succeed in obtaining any news of him; but one day he at length saw him again."
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

I had on a broad belt of goat's skin dried, which I drew together with two thongs of the same, instead of buckles; and in a kind of a frog on either side of this, instead of a sword and dagger, hung a little saw and a hatchet; one on one side, one on the other: I had another belt not so broad, and fastened in the same manner, which hung over my shoulder; and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two pouches,
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

The arrangement of the persons represented is as follows:— At the foot of the throne, under the gothic canopy—to the left, Saint Nicholas of Myra kneels in prayer, wearing his mitre and clasping his crozier, from which the maniple hangs like a folded banner; Saint Louis the King with a crown of fleurs de lys; the monastic saints; St. Antony, St. Benedict, St. Francis, St. Thomas, who holds an open book in which we read the first lines of the Te Deum , St. Dominic holding a lily, St. Augustine with a pen.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Unfortunately no distempers are so obstinate as mental ones; yet, had my distemper had any lighter source than an upbraiding conscience, I am persuaded the wisdom of Marguerite would have banished it.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin