Be it for good or be it for evil, it is worse than useless to disguise the fact that the government of a modern colony, where every conquest is made from the forest by little at a time, must be essentially republican.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Two or three of them, at different times, took me by the hand; remembered me perfectly; were quite sure I had boarded with them before I sailed; were delighted to see me back; gave me their cards; had a hand-cart waiting on the wharf, on purpose to take my things up: would lend me a hand to get my chest ashore; bring a bottle of grog on board if we did not haul in immediately,—and the like.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

But be it Evidence and Truth it selfe that was given; or be it but Admonition to the Priest to endeavour to inform himself cleerly, and give judgment uprightly; yet in that it was given to the High Priest, it was given to the Civill Soveraign:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

This bold person then ‘took the prime staff, and began to call the dogs to go with him;’ but the dogs could not be induced to go out, being in great terror at the groaning noise, and sought to hide themselves under the stools, and about the people’s feet.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

At last they brought a clavichord of Stein's out of the next room, a very good one, but inch-thick with dust.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In spite of her ugliness she was a poor fellow-countrywoman, and without asking her name, or ascertaining whether the company was good or bad, I promised to do my best, and had no difficulty in obtaining the favour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This regulation is still generally observed; but I regret to see a few Grand Lodges in this country innovating on the usage, and still further confining the representation to the Masters alone.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

[Pg 15] Criticism of " reality ": what does a "plus or minus of reality" lead to, the gradation of Being in which we believe?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Each one who secures a fragment of the effigy ties it to a branch of the largest tree in his garden, or buries it in his field, in the belief that this causes the crops to grow better.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"I have also found peace for my soul, and a defence against the evil spirits to whom I was given over; but it was not in defiance, it was in love and hope, my liege."
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Actions are not simply good or bad in themselves.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

The decorated ceiling framed a central group of brilliant incandescent lights with globes.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

The good or bad in peoples' minds.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Sometimes the flame would eat its way out again to the surface, so that the tree would go on burning in the middle of the wet forest until it was consumed; and for days afterwards, on scratching away the stuff on the surface, we would come to a layer of half burned sticks that was still too hot to touch.
— from Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

To this larger group of brethren is due a grateful acknowledgment of sympathy and assistance.
— from His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

I want to know what's going on behind it.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

I want to go over, but I won’t go very far; and you can play about here.”
— from Cousin Lucy's Conversations By the Author of the Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott

| consequent upon the unavoidable growth of business in their favor during the seven years.
— from The Impending Crisis Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States by Basil A. Bouroff

“Wait until you get on board,” interposed the professor.
— from Frontier Boys in the South Seas by Wyn Roosevelt