Later discoveries she will be good enough to leave to the pens of those persons who can write in the capacity of actual witnesses.” (5.)
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Countess was good enough to listen patiently; she carried her goodness so far as to see me twice; she considered impartially all I had come to say.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Brage told Æger that Thor had gone eastward to crush trolls.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The same spirit of legislation prevailed with respect to their bearing arms and their gymnastic exercises; for the poor are excused if they have no arms, but the rich are fined; the same method takes place if they do not attend their gymnastic exercises, there is no penalty on one, but there is on the other: the consequence of which is, that the fear of this penalty induces the rich to keep the one and attend the other, while the poor do neither.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

In the case of a still closer relationship of the sexes, as, for instance, in dancing and in other amusements which society gatherings entail, this power increases to such an extent as to make real feats of strength possible: at last one no longer trusts either one's eyes, or one's watch!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

General Grant explained to me that he had reconnoitred the rebel line from Lookout Mountain up to Chickamauga, and he believed that the northern portion of Missionary Ridge was not fortified at all; and he wanted me, as soon as my troops got up, to lay the new pontoon-bridge by night, cross over, and attack Bragg's right flank on that part of the ridge abutting on Chickamauga Creek, near the tunnel; and he proposed that we should go at once to look at the ground.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Somehow, although the reality seems greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Un altro, che forata avea la gola e tronco 'l naso infin sotto le ciglia, e non avea mai ch'una orecchia sola, ristato a riguardar per maraviglia con li altri, innanzi a li altri apri` la canna, ch'era di fuor d'ogni parte vermiglia, e disse: <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

how the scornful Greeks exult to see Their fears of danger undeceived in thee!
— from The Iliad by Homer

The angler will get good sport in the Gairloch, either trolling or with hand lines ( Part IV., chap.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Status of the Jews in Egypt, by W. M. Flinders Petrie *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT *** *****
— from The Status of the Jews in Egypt The Fifth Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

They were not generous enough to let us off, but ordered the administration of the bastinado with a degree of religious zest that I thought could never have existed in any breast except my own.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

Thus the greatest evils turn to the profit of the ministers of the Lord.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

On April 20 Cromwell expelled from the House our astrologer’s great enemies, the Parliament men, and thereby won his most cordial applause.
— from Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Give me the Saltings of Essex with the east winds blowing over them, and the primroses abloom upon the bank, and the lanes fetlock deep in mud, and for your share you may take all the scented gardens of Sinan and the cups and jewels of his ladies, with the fightings and adventures of the golden East thrown in.”
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Kunst d. Renaissance in Ital. (Berl., 1885), has described in a thorough and brilliant style the mighty influence which St. Francis and his order exerted upon the development of art in Italy, especially of painting and architecture, as well as of poetry in the vernacular; for he has shown how the peculiar and close relation in which the saint stood to nature gave the first effective impulse to the emancipation of art from the trammels of formalism, and how the new artistic tendency, inspired by his spirit, was first given expression to in the building and adorning of the basilica at Assisi dedicated to him.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

O that my heart might be thus cleansed, thought Christian, and then I verily believe I could bear my burden with great ease to the end of my pilgrimage; but I have had enough of that fierce sweeper, the Law.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Big bully though he was, he was no match for the well-conditioned, active athlete who faced him, and Walcot punished him in a manner that made him glad enough to take to his heels as fast as he could.
— from The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed

For instance, if one of the party is a celebrated shot, who has done some astonishing record at driven grouse, you may, after the necessary preliminaries, ask him to be good enough to tell you what was the precise number of birds he shot on that occasion.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 by Various