And if the obscurity respects our practice, after making use of the means above mentioned, if that branch of our practice be forbidden, or under a doubt, desist from it, but if it is not forbidden, do it, and Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in the thing which he alloweth. "
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Then he dropped all seriousness and just overstrained himself making fun of us, and deriding our pride in our warlike deeds, our great heroes, our imperishable fames, our mighty kings, our ancient aristocracies, our venerable history—and laughed and laughed till it was enough to make a person sick to hear him; and finally he sobered a little and said, “But, after all, it is not all ridiculous; there is a sort of pathos about it when one remembers how few are your days, how childish your pomps, and what shadows you are!”
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

"I will explain myself another time," said Don Lorenzo; "for the present pray attend to the glossed verses and the gloss, which run thus: Could 'was' become an 'is' for me, Then would I ask no more than this; Or could, for me, the time that is Become the time that is to be!— GLOSS Dame Fortune once upon a day
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Some guns which had been firing on us all day were silent, or were turned in a different direction.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Even he, seasoned [23] practitioner, condemns garum , muria , asa fœtida , because professors before him have done so, because he forgets that these very materials still form a vital part of some of his own sauces only in a different shape, form or under a different name.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

As far as our eyes could reach, we saw in front of us a desert of glittering stone, heated like an oven by a burning sun, which seemed to hang for that very purpose right above the gorge.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

kúug v 1 [B346] for the head to move to and fro or up and down with short, rapid movements.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[A; a12] shake back and forth or up and down in short, quick movements.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He had no particular desire for her, he could not even remember what she looked like, but now he wanted to speak to her and it irritated him that her late arrival home meant this day would be full of unease and disorder right to its very end.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Perhaps the prettiest minor recognition of his character is when, on the night foray of Ulysses and Diomed, Ulysses wear the helmet stolen by Autolycus, the son of Hermes.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

Two ducks, sweeping swiftly down out of the darkness, alighted not a dozen yards in front of us, and directly in the line of light.
— from Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

" The Turkish anti-submarine craft must have been in the position of the darkey who hooked the alligator—"Is dis nigger fishing, or is dis fish a-niggerin'?" "E 12" continues unmoved— "Proceeded into Mudania, bombarded Magazine outside town, hit it eight times, silenced the batteries which opened fire on us and damaged the railway.
— from The Story of Our Submarines by John Graham Bower

Ile tell you anon 174 An eartly nourris sits and sings 64 As I pass’d by a river side 134 As it fell out upon a day 140 As I was wa’king all alone (Wee Wee Man) 24 As I was walking all alane (Twa Corbies) 82 By Arthur’s Dale as late I went 100 Clark Colven and his gay ladie 44 Clark Sanders and May Margret 66 Cospatrick has sent o’er the faem 26 Der lived a king inta da aste 209 Fair lady Isabel sits in her bower sewing 157 Four and twenty bonny boys 109 Four and twenty nobles sits in the king’s ha’ 205 Hame came our goodman 215 Her mother died when she was young 16 Hie upon Hielands 95 Hit wes upon a Scere-thorsday 146 I have a yong suster 163 I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low 6 In Norway Lands there lived a maid 235 It fell about the Martinmas time 231 It fell upon a Wodensday 143 It was the worthy lord of Learne
— from Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

For immediately thereupon, the Justice giving command for the apprehending us, the constables with the rabble fell on us, and drew some and drove others into the inn, giving thereby an opportunity to the rest to walk away.
— from The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood

The four of us are dying.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

"He is not unhappy—I am sure the child is not unhappy," Helen often said to her father, when—as was his way—Mr. Cardross would get fits of uncertainty and downheartedness, and think he was killing his pupil with study, or wearying him, and risking his health by letting him do as much as his energetic mind, always dominant over the frail body, prompted him to do.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"Des lemme see— "' One frun five Leaves four alive ; "' One frun four Leaves th'ee un no mo' ; "' One frun th'ee Leaves two ter go free ; "' One frun one, Un all done gone .'" "What did Brother Rabbit do then?" inquired the little boy.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

It is a most unseemly and unpleasant thing, to see a man's life full of ups and downs, one step like a Christian, {60} and another like a worldling; it cannot choose but both pain himself and mar the edification of others.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge