So they stood, each in his place, neither moving a finger's-breadth back, for one good hour, and many blows were given and received by each in that time, till here and there were sore bones and bumps, yet neither thought of crying "Enough," nor seemed likely to fall from off the bridge.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Mrs Dedalus, seeing her excitement, said to her: —Mrs Riordan, don’t excite yourself answering them. —God and religion before everything!
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Now I say: man and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by this or that will, but in all his actions, whether they concern himself or other rational beings, must be always regarded at the same time as an end.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls, because they did not go to a particular Sabbath-school, nor all the good infants, who did go, as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels, when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Europe was to be awed by Russian greatness, and Russia by European wisdom.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Thus he had not a shadow of goodness and righteousness, but embraced vices instead of virtue; he cut the sinews of self-control, neglected the duties of his kingly station, and sank into a filthy slave of riot.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

And at this moment entered the room the young nobleman whom we have before mentioned, accompanied by an individual who was approaching perhaps the termination of his fifth lustre but whose general air rather betokened even a less experienced time of life.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

We now know more about "the land of Babel" than did not only the Greeks and Romans, but even the Hebrew writers who foretold its destruction.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

"I will," said Jimmy, laconically, and he did, with the result that the government got a rare black eye that set it rolling down the Hill of Overthrow, at the bottom of which, a few years later, it landed, and landed hard.
— from William Adolphus Turnpike by William Banks

As it was, we had gained a respectable booty even for a whole season; but scarcely two months had passed, and we could not afford to go on so far as Hyderabad in inactivity.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

Swift as a bird she climbs the sides of the tunnel; she repeatedly goes and returns, bringing each time fruits and canes full of savory and refreshing liquid.
— from The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by M. Xavier

You must not be too anxious to get along rapidly ; but endeavor to become thoroughly acquainted with one principle, before you undertake another.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

When the kiddies wanted a cake they went up and asked for it; but for the most part they were immersed in that subdued, serious excitement which means that games are really being enjoyed.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

Then he slipped it back into the thumb of the glove and replaced both exactly as they were; after which he made his way back to the motor cycle, and mounting, went flying toward the city.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre

Not only in Gymnasia and republics, but even (as may be seen on the former page) in monarchies, speeches enough are made,–not to the people, but still to their curatores absentes .
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

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— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton