He has some money from his mother, I have heard enough to purchase his majority—or he must sell out and go and dig in Canada, or rough it in a cottage in the country."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Long periods of Bible meditation will purify our gaze and direct it; church attendance will enlarge our outlook and increase our love for others.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

When I had fallen in love with a girl already dead, I could console myself with the thought of what might have been.
— from The Point of View by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

For in her is the spirit of understanding—holy, only begotten, manifold, subtle, clear, undefined, loving the good and doing it, courteous, stable, sure, without care, having all power, yet circumspect in all things—and so, passing into all intellectual, pure, and subtle spirits.'
— from The White Plumes of Navarre: A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

678 Issus, now Aias, a town of Cilicia on the confines of Syria, famous for the battle between Alexander the Great and Darius, in consequence of which it was called Nicopolis.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

He passed the wine to Randal, filling his own glass, and draining it carelessly: " Sur mon âme, mon cher ," said the Count, "luxury is ever pleasanter than necessity; and I am resolved at least to give ambition a trial— je vais me réfugier dans le sein du bonheur domestique —a married life and a settled home.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

And quite as well worth looking at, in his way, was her cavalier, gallant and handsome, with an unmistakable military stride, and an unmistakable military air generally, although dressed in civilian's clothes.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

When we see The brown skulls grin at death in churchyards bleak, We do not cry “This Yorick is too light,” For death grows deathlier with that mouth he makes.
— from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Often gerrymandering [Footnote: The origin and nature of "gerrymandering" are discussed in Chapter XLII, Sections 542 and 543.] is resorted to, that is to say, congressional districts are so arranged as to give the minority party overwhelming majorities in a few districts, while the dominant party is allowed to carry the remaining districts by very small majorities.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

It is to this end that the grades are divided into classes.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

God says, "GO AND DO IT: compel them to come in.
— from Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Catherine Mumford Booth