Merely hearing Mrs. Wilkins's evil communications at meals—she did not listen, she avoided listening, yet it was evident she had heard—those communications which, in that they so often were at once vulgar, indelicate and profane, and always, she was sorry to say, laughed at by Lady Caroline, must be classed as evil, was spoiling her own mental manners.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

More than once Dickon paused in what he was doing and stood still with a sort of growing wonder in his eyes, shaking his head softly.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sed, quae naturae principia sint communitatis et societatis humanae, repetendum videtur altius; est enim primum, quod cernitur in universi generis humani societate.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But although he has been girt with it ever since he entered by the gate, it has not saved him from a single fear, far less from a single danger; and now it is cast away as useless.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offerd good, why else set here?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Ever since he had lived in prison together with men banished here from all ends of the earth—with Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Georgians, Chinese, Gypsies, Jews— and ever since he had listened to their talk and watched their sufferings, he had begun to turn again to God, and it seemed to him at last that he had learned the true faith for which all his family, from his grandmother Avdotya down, had so thirsted, which they had sought so long and which they had never found.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For nearly ten years Oller held the presidency of the divine senate; but at last the gods pitied the horrible exile of Odin, and thought that he had now been punished heavily enough; so he exchanged his foul and unsightly estate for his ancient splendour; for the lapse of time had now wiped out the brand of his earlier disgrace.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The President wrote a letter to a political convention in which he declared that the workers of America were living in “economic serfdom”; he declared again and again that every people had a right to determine their own destinies and form of government without outside interference.
— from Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

The English system had, in fact, spontaneously analysed the problem.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

Eusebius styles him, [755] ωμος και ανημερος , a man of a cruel and sour disposition.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant

Ever since he had had to wear spectacles he had tried in vain to establish a system of carrying them in the same pocket; but in order to have it work he must think which was the right pocket when he put them in, rather than when he came to look for them.
— from The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

Among the lowest classes, whilst a woman is lying-in, the husband closes all the windows to prevent the evil spirit ( asuan ) entering; sometimes he will wave about a stick or bowie-knife at the door, or on top of the roof, for the same purpose.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

"Oh, Emile Spinach, Emile Spinach," he called, "did you know that soon, soon the little sister will be here?"
— from Little Philippe of Belgium by Madeline Brandeis

And since, the Spaniards and the English successfully have taken possession of the land and all the coasts that the said English have kept until this day to much advantage, so that Frenchmen who have returned since have been obliged to settle at Cape Breton and Acadia.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

do not leave me, [242] Lest the Evil Spirits harm you!" Chibiabos, young and heedless, Laughing shook his coal-black tresses, Answered ever sweet and childlike, "Do not fear for me, O brother!
— from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This state of things lasted about a year, when at last the prince escaped from the guards whom earl Simon had placed around him, was joined by the earl of Gloucester and Roger Mortimer, and once more raised the royal standard.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley