Several of the men applauded this, till Jerry said: “That may sound well enough, but it won't do; every man must look after his own soul; you can't lay it down at another man's door like a foundling and expect him to take care of it; and don't you see, if you are always sitting on your box waiting for a fare, they will say, 'If we don't take him some one else will, and he does not look for any Sunday.'
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

I bowed to the three women as if I were being presented to some royal highnesses, and turning to the priest, I said: “You are an excellent man, Monsieur l'Abbe, to whom all of us here owe a debt of gratitude.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[23-58] caught up water from its brimming eddy, making many prayers to the gods and burdening the air with vows.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Every experienced military man will agree that, in spite of the mud and the firmness of the English infantry, if the mass of the French infantry had been thrown on the English in columns of battalions immediately after the great charge of cavalry, the combined army would have been broken and forced back on Antwerp.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Even Miss M. Melvilleson, in the revived Caledonian melody of "We're a-Nodding," points the sentiment that "the dogs love broo" (whatever the nature of that refreshment may be) with such archness and such a turn of the head towards next door that she is immediately understood to mean Mr. Smallweed loves to find money, and is nightly honoured with a double encore.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

154 ere-more , euer; midle , middle of the.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

Many projects entered my mind.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

They were that he would surrender the castle and the whole island if he and his people were provided with shipping to proceed to Barbary, paying 7-1/2 doblas a head for every Moorish man or woman that embarked.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Emerson, Mary Moody, 295, 296, 302.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

" "Expect?" echoed Miss Mayton.
— from Helen's Babies by John Habberton

First, the elected members must be righteous, God-fearing, high-minded, incorruptible.
— from The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

‘It seems that, surprised as the poor exiles on this island were at your appearance, the citizens are even more mystified at your disappearance there.
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

Round her all was calm and lovely; and the soft brown hand of autumn, with the sun’s approval, tempered every mellow mood of leaves.
— from Tales from the Telling-House by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

'Lena has nothing decent to wear, and I don't feel like expending much more for a person so ungrateful as she is.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

[337] Each man might tell his own motives.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

You make this promise, Lucy, not with a view merely to ease my mind and contribute to my recovery; but, should I get well, with a firm intention to carry it actually into execution?” “Such, papa, is my intention—my fixed determination, I should say;
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton