The flux of things would then go on in their own medium, not in our minds; and no suspicion of illusion or of qualification by mind would attach to any event in nature.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

'But he can't go on in that old man's company.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

He should get out in the open more.”
— from The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass; Or, The Midnight Call for Assistance by Allen Chapman

The question of what happens to one daily and constantly, as weeks and months go on, is the one most practical question of life.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

If such things were going on in the old Monachlog it was high time to pull it down.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel," the old man said; "for He hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as He spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began."
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Go out in the open market and buy.
— from Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland

There comes a time to all that make —whether it be books or music or pictures—when they can make no new thing, but go on in the old manner, working with the fingers of age the dreams of youth.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

Yet German officers, in those occasional moments when conviviality bred loquacity, were fond of averring, as more than one of them has averred to me, that "the Kaiser lacked the moral courage to sign a mobilization order."
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

One can become only too well aware of such things by looking in the glass, or in that other mirror held up to nature in the frank opinions of street-boys, or of our Free People travelling by excursion train; and no doubt they account for the half-suppressed smile which I have observed on some fair faces when I have first been presented before them.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

It may be that when the wars are over and the market calls for a larger and a quicker output, machinery may be gradually introduced without hardship to those who have grown old in the old methods and who cannot use themselves to new ways.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes