The whole multitude, in terror and despair, ran to oppose the conflagration; but, for the greater manifestation of the Divine power, whatsoever the crowd endeavoured to save, was destroyed; and what the sick and helpless man defended, the flame avoided and passed by, though the house that sheltered the holy man lay open to it, 96 and while the fire raged on every side, the place in which he lay appeared untouched, amid the general conflagration.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

( Deeply thinking for some time, reads ).
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin—don't let him.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

If it be so, sir, that you are the man Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest; And if you break the ice, and do this feat, Achieve the elder, set the younger free For our access, whose hap shall be to have her Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

When the first congratulations were over, and the general joy became somewhat more tranquil, the Count withdrew with Valancourt to the library, where a long conversation passed between them, in which the latter so clearly justified himself of the criminal parts of the conduct, imputed to him, and so candidly confessed and so feelingly lamented the follies, which he had committed, that the Count was confirmed in his belief of all he had hoped; and, while he perceived so many noble virtues in Valancourt, and that experience had taught him to detest the follies, which before he had only not admired, he did not scruple to believe, that he would pass through life with the dignity of a wise and good man, or to entrust to his care the future happiness of Emily St. Aubert, for whom he felt the solicitude of a parent.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In every case the conception of War, as here defined, will be the first ray of light which shows us the true foundation of theory, and which first separates the great masses and allows us to distinguish them from one another.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place; and I argued that if any one desired to find out the cause of the generation or destruction or existence of anything, he must find out what state of being or doing or suffering was best for that thing, and therefore a man had only to consider the best for himself and others, and then he would also know the worse, since the same science comprehended both.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Charles Dana, the famous editor of The New York Sun , told one of his reporters that if he went up the street and saw a dog bite a man, to pay no attention to it.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The greater portion of the crew, under the direction of the officers, were vieing with each other, trying to keep down the flames.
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

Mourn for Britannia's hopes decay'd, Her daughters wail their dear defence; Their fair example, prostrate laid, 35 Chaste Love and fervid Innocence.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was estimated that they numbered 300 at the time of the passage of the act; but the number of pensions allowed was 3,742, and the amount paid for such pensions during the first year of the operation of the act was $180,000, instead of $24,000, as had been estimated.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

It looked uncommonly as if he were disappointed to find me still in the room and the papers on his table.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

And could the bare Love of their Country induce, among many more, the great Cornelia , Mother of the Gracchi , and Aurelia the Mother of Julius Caesar , to do this for the Sons of Noble-men of Rome to whom they had no Relation but that of their common Country, and shall not the like consideration, or what is infinitely beyond this, that of their Children being hereafter for ever happy or miserable, accordingly as they live in this World, prevail with the Ladies of our Days, who call themselves Christians, to employ some of their Time and Pains upon their own Off-spring?
— from Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian life by Masham, Damaris, Lady

Guns were fired by the dozen, and the crash of bursting bombs almost deafened the four hurrying boys.
— from The Boy Scouts Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

—Determine the frequency of the different wind directions by counting the total number of times the wind has blown from N., NE., E., etc., during the month.
— from Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology by Robert DeCourcy Ward

“Among the Egyptians,” he says, “it was deemed impossible to worship the deity in a manner worthy by words, adopting the sentiments of Plato—that it was difficult to find the nature of the Maker and Father of the Universe, or to convey an idea of him to the people by a verbal description—and they imagined therefore the deity Harpocrates who presided over silence and was always represented as inculcating it by holding his finger on his lips”.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Well, the Hygienic has a station up at Bottger’s, on our Lancaster & Essex division, that fills two cars at that station every blessed day.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford