Thus the good and true Mediator showed that it is sin which is evil, and not the substance or nature of flesh; for this, together with the human soul, could without sin be both assumed and retained, and laid down in death, and changed to something better by resurrection.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

With an honesty which bordered on simplicity they summoned Morny to yield himself a prisoner, and to return within the law, declaring that in case of refusal the Assembly would do its duty, and call the people to the defence of the Constitution and of the Republic.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Should those delays which necessarily attend the deliberations of a body of one thousand two hundred men, give time to this plot to ripen and burst, so as to break up the Assembly before [99] anything definite is done, a constitution, the principles of which are pretty well settled in the minds of the Assembly, will be proposed by the national militia (* * * * *), urged by the individual members of the Assembly, signed by the King, and supported by the nation, to prevail till circumstances shall permit its revision and more regular sanction.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

We all know that almost any water, if it be a few feet deep, is dangerous at certain times and under certain conditions.
— from Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton

I was passing there one day in disguise, and chancing to look in, I saw this man sitting on a bench near the paying teller's desk.
— from The Young Bank Messenger by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

No, never, except I were married to you: married people can never oblige one another; for all they do is duty, and consequently there can be no thanks:
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

But it had done nothing to forfeit her love and trust, and nevertheless she must dash it down and cast the fragments into the fire, and not preserve even the dust as a precious thing.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

But the terror is not allayed; "during the following days a guard is kept mounted, and companies are enrolled among the townsmen," while Bordeaux, duly informed, dispatches a courier to offer the support of 20,000 men and even 30,000.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Unavoidable as the delay in despatching a column to the relief of Mafeking seems to have been, I think that there was one moment at which, if Lord Methuen had had a slightly stronger force under his command, the course of the campaign on the north-west frontier might have been changed, and Mafeking relieved by pressure from the south.
— from The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young