Most of these prisoners expect to get out before long, either to go on to more permanent quarters, or to be liberated altogether; many of them emerge with comparatively small loss of social standing; for, indeed, highly respectable persons occasionally stray in here.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

[Ps. 32:1] That we take no thought of these benefits of God, or but lightly esteem them, that is ingratitude, and the hardening of our unbelieving heart.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

The entire population began to burn lime forthwith, and would have gone on burning lime enough to have built a South Sea pyramid equal to Cheops, if they had not been checked and their blazing energies turned into stone-hewing and dressing, and other channels.
— from The Madman and the Pirate by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Never you have a fear but that I'll see she don't leave this station till you've had a chance to go on board long enough to sort out the coal-passers.
— from Off Santiago with Sampson by James Otis

Every one 's sorry for married people, no matter how their children turn out, because, good or bad, like enough they done their best, 'n' if they didn't it was always the other one's fault; but there ain't no one goin' to lay themselves out to try 'n' smooth my child's thorns into a bed o' roses for me.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop by Anne Warner

" The churchman seized the matches, and, in his anxiety at what he had done, struck several before he got one burning long enough to see the unconscious man's face.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum