That the devil is most busy amongst us that are of the true church, appears by those several oppositions, heresies, schisms, which in all ages he hath raised to subvert it, and in that of Rome especially, wherein Antichrist himself now sits and plays his prize.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

However, I made shift to make two or three new waistcoats, which I hoped would serve me a great while: as for breeches or drawers, I made but a very sorry shift indeed till afterwards.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

So far it is not too late; if only men will believe in the danger it may be averted: "from the moment they are convinced, the necessary blow is dealt to the sect.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Then they decided it must be a direct gift from the gods, and placed the proud mother in the Temple of Maaia—their Goddess of Motherhood—under strict watch.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And to Mr. Williams he said, My old acquaintance, I have reserved for you, against a variety of solicitations, the living I always designed for you; and I beg you'll prepare to take possession of it; and as the doing it may be attended with some expense, pray accept of this towards it; and so he gave him (as he told me afterwards it was) a bank note of 50l.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

With a bad conscience, dull, indolent, hardly able to move my limbs, as though I had a ten ton weight upon me, I lie down in my bed and soon fall asleep.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

‘A blessing that I hope, one of these days, I may be able to deserve.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I am faithful, I do not give out, The fractur'd thigh, the knee, the wound in the abdomen, These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

But for every, even the smallest, act of genius it is necessary that criticism should take a higher point of view, so that, having at command many objective grounds of decision, it may be as little subjective as possible, and that the critic may not take the limited scope of his own mind as a standard.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“But if I were a poet, or that fellow Dewing, I might be able to tell you what your eyes were like to-night.”
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

Many jewels, my good lord; a brother, wife, and child, For this I would have strove even with a father: Howe'er rough storms did in my brows appear, Within my bosom it was always clear.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

How many dormant ideas may be awakened by exertion!
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

For surely, if the truth of the fact be admitted in the lowest views in which it can be placed, (that is, supposing the first impression to have passed in a dream,) it must be allowed to have been little, if anything less than miraculous.
— from The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge

The site of Daulakee is marked by a break in the mountains, where the road which leads among them commences.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

Dim it may be and undeveloped, but still it is there, evidenced daily by many little acts of kindness, many little generous deeds towards those who are more miserable and more suffering than themselves.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

From this time on till the beginning of December it may be as well to explain the situation in advance.
— from Mafeking: A Diary of a Siege by Frederick David Baillie

"Some day I may be able to tell you just what it is—but not to-night.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

Considering the early date of publication, the wide expanse of ocean covered by the charts, and their essential accuracy (as indicated by later data), it must be acknowledged, I think, by anyone who is at all acquainted with the difficulties incident to this sort of work, that this supplement to the Pilot Chart hit more closely to the truth in this matter than would probably be possible under similar circumstances in one case out of ten.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various

And thus we may learn, that any doctrine of the Bible, when generally opposed, may lawfully become a point of testimony; and when openly opposed and practically denied, it may become a warrantable and imperative ground of separation.
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele