Here I saw a part of the compassion of our Lady, Saint Mary: for Christ and she were so oned in love that the greatness of her loving was cause of the greatness of her pain.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered [196] a monarch's robe.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Pg 140] under his own eyes by enemies drunk with fury, he gasps out his last whisper and his last insult together with his life's breath.
— from On Love by Stendhal

When the wolf at length had had his sleep out, he got on his legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He was considering the immeasurable greatness of his forces passing over the Hellespont for the Grecian expedition: he was first seized with a palpitation of joy, to see so many millions of men under his command, and this appeared in the gaiety of his looks: but his thoughts at the same instant suggesting to him that of so many lives, within a century at most, there would not be one left, he presently knit his brows and grew sad, even to tears.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As we rushed by the cavern's mouth we caught a hasty glimpse of him, looking somewhat like an ill-proportioned figure, but considerably more like a heap of fog and duskiness.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When she got on her legs, she stooped forward, kissed it, took it in her mouth, and most lovingly sucked it, saying how delighted she would be to relieve me whenever it was troublesome.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

A good deal of talk, the subject Henry Thoreau—some new glints of his life and fortunes, with letters to and from him—one of the best by Margaret Fuller, others by Horace Greeley, Channing, &c.—one from Thoreau himself, most quaint and interesting.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

" Jo spoke hopefully, but could not rid herself of the foreboding fear that this 'little trial' would be harder than the others, and that Laurie would not get over his 'lovelornity' as easily as heretofore.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I felt almost as if I had brought the dirty streets with me, and were guilty of having left them lying about, so impossible were they with reference to the Boston face.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Nor are the universality of her language and the grandeur of her literature elements to be left out of consideration.
— from The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

Little she dreamed that below, among the trees of the orchard, Waited her lover and watched for the gleam of her lamp and her shadow.
— from Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jim then got on his legs, with the blood streaming from the thrust which had been inflicted in his thigh, and between the two guards he again made his way to the main deck.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

Whatever her thoughts might have been, the short glances of her lustrous eyes gave no clue to them, and her tongue was silent, save when she replied by some brief monosyllable to a remark or query put in the Indian language occasionally by Pedro.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And so this man, without the least compunction, and without any misgivings as to his being believed, arranges an agricultural exhibition, or a temperance society, or through his wife and children sends jackets and soup to three old women, and in his family, in drawing-rooms, committees, the press, boldly preaches the Gospel or humane love of one's neighbour in general, and of that working agricultural class in particular which he constantly torments and oppresses.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As Peyrade grew older, his love for his natural daughter had increased.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Hence arose the idea of a Great Mother, a giver of health, life, and good luck.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Then, too, I realise, as I grow older, how little I have really seen of my own incomparably beautiful and delightful land, so that, like the hero of Newman's hymn, "I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me."
— from At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

We have the garnered grain of Hebrew literature in our Bible—a winnowed national library.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton