While they were doing this Robin Hood strung both his bow and that of Guy of Gisbourne, albeit none of them took notice of his doing so.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The building of the temples, by which Athens was adorned, the people delighted, and the rest of the world astonished, and which now alone prove that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no fables, was what particularly excited the spleen of the opposite faction, who inveighed against him in the public assembly, declaring that the Athenians had disgraced themselves by transferring the common treasury of the Greeks from the island of Delos to their own custody.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

And thus the gifts of grace are not able to flow unto us, because we are ungrateful to the Author of them, and return them not wholly to the Fountain whence they flow.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

In a cosmogonic poem (x. 121) of considerable beauty the creator further appears under the name of Hiraṇyagarbha, “germ of gold,” a notion doubtless suggested by the rising sun.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But, oddly enough, he has found the people up that back street of precisely the same stamp as the inhabitants of Shepperton—“a poor lot, sir, big and little, and them as comes for a go o' gin are no better than them as comes for a pint o' twopenny—a poor lot.” H2 anchor Chapter XVIII Church “HETTY, Hetty, don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half after one a'ready?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

and if I do say aught to a girl, or get anywhere near one, she must at once give way to suspicion.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Cast not in my teeth the lovely gifts of golden Aphrodite; not to be flung aside are the gods' glorious gifts that of their own good will they give; for by his desire can no man win them.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Nelly seemed to him, as he said, like a little girl of Germany, and not of America; and he loved to look at her, and to hear her talk.
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

“Is she grave or gay?” asked Newman.
— from The American by Henry James

But once before it had been so laid under bond, which was, as my father said, in order to the advancement of the glory of God; and now, the second time 'twas so to be for no better purpose than the enlargement of a traitor.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

For my part, I would pluck a rose from her garden, or gather a nosegay from a hedgerow, and it would please her as truly as if it were a priceless diadem.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6, November 1893 by Various

“I shall grow old gracefully and never wobble.”
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights by Margaret Love Sanderson

There were in his words a certain indefinable grace and force which are the gift of God, and not communicable by art or learning.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

The bare inspection of the figures, independently of his description, demonstrates, that these animals belong to the goats or gazelles, and not to the stags or roe-bucks.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

In this name of Love all the holiness and glory of God are now to be revealed.
— from Lord, Teach Us To Pray by Andrew Murray

The Country Gentleman says two things are necessary for the growing of good asparagus, namely, plenty of room for the plant to grow, and copious manuring.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various