"I have bidden you to join your hands," said he, "not in earthly affection, for ye have cast off its chains for ever, but as brother and sister in spiritual love and helpers of one another in your allotted task.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We did not see much of her the first evening, but after breakfast the following morning, mamma accompanied her to what was considered our schoolroom, and said, “Now, my dears, I place you under Miss Evelyn’s care; you must obey her in all things; she will teach you your lessons, as I am unable to do so any longer.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

This princess bore him Aparajit, who from being born in Chitor was nominated successor to the throne, to the exclusion of his less fortunate elder brother, Asil (born of the daughter of the Kaba (Pramara) prince of Kalibao near Dwaraka), who, however, obtained possessions in Saurashtra, and founded a race called the Asila Guhilots, [6] whose descendants were so numerous, even in Akbar’s reign, as to [242] be supposed able to bring into the field fifty thousand men at arms.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

For even beasts and birds have memory; else could they not return to their dens and nests, nor many other things they are used unto: nor indeed could they be used to any thing, but by memory.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

'But if to one thus wretched, one destitute of all good, some further evil be added besides those which make him wretched, is he not to be judged far more unhappy than he whose ill fortune is alleviated by some share of good?'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

I could now fully realise all Mrs. Bowdich's longings for English bread and butter, after her three years' travel through the burning African deserts, with her talented husband.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Wà ku makatiwas ug káun kay nabukug ku, I didn’t finish eating because a bone got stuck in my throat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The figure is made of differently-coloured pieces of paper pasted on a framework either by a blind man or according to the directions of a necromancer.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

There’s Dolores bothering with her science, and Fergus every bit as bad; and Mysie after her disgusting schoolchildren; and Val and Prim horrid little empty chatterboxes; and if one does turn to a jolly girl for a bit of fun, their tongues all go to work, so that you would think the skies were going to fall; and if one goes in for a bit of a spree, down comes the General like a sledge-hammer!
— from Modern Broods; Or, Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Angel Island will for ever be a bright oasis in my hunting career, as it was the ground of my maiden prowess.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Accrue , v. n. Result, proceed, come, arise, issue, follow, flow, ensue, be added, be derived, be gained, be got, come in.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

At the end of half a mile the track began to dip more steeply, and finally emerged by a big clearing and the two marble pillars of which Hewson had spoken; and here I tethered the brown horse, and had a look around before walking down into Eucalyptus.
— from Wandering Heath by Arthur Quiller-Couch

R121538, 13Nov53, Frederick E. Burnham (A) BURRELL, JOHN ANGUS.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The theory of a natural development of society from the family was first elaborated by Aristotle, but it goes back in its fundamental idea to legend and myth.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

At about one, Lord Bute was seen coming from Ealing by a by-road, so that 'tis probable he had again been to meet his Majesty at Kew.
— from Farmer George, Volume 2 by Lewis Melville

I little thought that beat could be The harbinger of misery; And daily, when the morning beam Dawned earliest on wood and stream, When, from each brake and bush were heard, The hum of bee, and chirp of bird, From these, earth's matin songs, my ear Would turn, a sweeter voice to hear— A voice, whose tones the very air Seemed trembling with delight to bear; From leafy wood, and misty stream, From bush, and brake, and morning beam, Would turn away my wandering eye, A dearer object to descry,
— from Mazelli, and Other Poems by George W. Sands

"The packet is not a parcel as I imagined, in which we were to be made up for exportation, but a boat of considerable size; it is called a cutter—why, I do not know, and did not like to ask.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

The "another hearing" will be found explained by and by.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Calef