I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I assure you, if you don't keep a sharp look out, he will some time or other fall upon you unawares, and destroy you all."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

"Well," began the former, as soon as they had advanced some paces, "t' folks up yon 'ull laugh fit to split when they hear this tale!
— from North, South and Over the Sea by M. E. Francis

The events which I foretold have come to pass, and you have not even this reflection left you, that they have fallen upon you undeservedly.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

“And who knows,” continued Pog, “if chance may not cause the chevalier who massacred your poor mother and noble father to fall under your usurious hand?”
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

If the humble are given to me, let there be amongst them one whom I may lead on the mission that shall abase the proud; for, behold, O Appointer of the Stars, as I have sat for uncounted years upon my solitary throne, brooding over the things beneath, my spirit hath gathered wisdom from the changes that shift below.
— from The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Dear Sir : Scientific investigators in meteorology have again and again declared they have not been able to discover by accurate and long-continued observation that the moon has any effect whatever upon terrestrial weather; yet the farmers have, for unreckoned years, undoubtingly ascribed certain kinds of weather—changes, especially—to the moon; and, despite the dictum of the scientists, they have persisted in their confidence in the pale orb as a weather-breeder, and as a disposer, in a large degree, of the wet and dry features of the months.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various

But for us, you understand, no more than Mrs. Skinner.
— from The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In vain have you read of the freedom wherewith Christ makes people free, unless you understand how you yourself may have an interest in it.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

For unseriall yo u will vs to reade cerriall, for cerrus 8 is a kynde of tree lyke one oke, bearinge maste; and therefore by yo ur correct i one yt sholde be a garland of grene oke cerriall:
— from Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Francis Thynne

"Well," he said, "nobody would figure you'd been farming, unless you use the scythe down in Ontario.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss