We have seen that taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

What sermons have we in The Miller's Daughter , in Dora , in The Gardener's Daughter and in Love and Duty .
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

We have digressed into detail in this particular case to exemplify the difficulties of criticism in its attempts to identify the allusions in these forgotten quarrels.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

When Sir Lancelot heard thereof, he wrote thus to the king: “It was never in my thought, lord, to withhold thy queen from thee; but since she was condemned for my sake to death, I deemed it but a just and knightly part to rescue her therefrom; wherefore I recommend me to your grace, and within eight days will I come to thee and bring the queen in safety.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

And did I do it for my country’s sake?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Why does your tender palm dissolve in dew?"— "I'm wearied," said fair Lamia: "tell me who Is that old man?
— from Lamia by John Keats

Our day is divided into six hours’ worktime and six hours’ sleeptime.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

This diocese is divided into parishes, every parish having its parson, or vicar at the least, learned men for the most part, and sufficient preachers, to instruct the people.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

As now he answered: "Nay, choose thou for me, Thou art the wisest; it is more than well Within this peaceful place with thee to dwell: Nor ill perchance in that old land to die, If, dying, I keep not the memory Of this fair life of ours."
— from A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris

I sent a letter to my love, And by the way I droppt it; I dee, I dee, I dee, I droppt it, And by the way I droppt it. —Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

Spying the enemy, the little creature darted down the slope, and took a header into the water; but the lizard came close upon its heels, sprang after it, and dragged it down into the deep.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

She, who had always declared that it was so, yet could find her diversion in dazzling it and stimulating its envy; though most things failed to please her, yet, like all women, her own power pleased her always; but he had no such resource, for the power which he had (that of wealth) he despised.
— from Othmar by Ouida

"It has burst like a thunderstorm upon the fields of Belgium; but the deluge it discharges is a deluge of blood intermingled with human tears.
— from Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Arthur Quiller-Couch

[96] The "clock system" is described in detail in the writer's bulletin, "Locating the Rural Community."
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

How eagerly did I drink in these notes!
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

Self may creep in and display its deformity in the defense of our opinions as much as in any thing else; but we must disallow it in every shape and form, and be governed in all things by "Thus saith the Lord."
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

"Why did I do it?"
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson