His brother was made an earl, with a grant of L6000 a year.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

“You go on living, and you don’t know what for. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He was very sick, and Masha looked with aversion at his pale, wet face, and said: "Is it possible these reptiles will go on living another year and a half in our yard?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

These lesser matters, as they indeed are in comparison with the greater ones, let a younger generation regulate by law, after the patterns which have preceded, and according to their own experience of the usefulness and necessity of such laws; and when they are duly regulated let there be no alteration, but let the citizens live in the observance of them.
— from Laws by Plato

When at last he came to a stop, he gave one last agonised yell and then a long, whimpering wail.
— from White Fang by Jack London

the years Have lost their ancient leader, and no word Breaks from the voiceless tripod on our ears: While as a ruined mother in some spasm Bears a base child and loathes it, so our best enthusiasm Genders unlawful children, Anarchy Freedom’s own Judas, the vile prodigal Licence who steals the gold of Liberty And yet has nothing, Ignorance the real One Fraticide since Cain, Envy the asp That stings itself to anguish, Avarice whose palsied grasp Is in its extent stiffened, moneyed Greed For whose dull appetite men waste away Amid the whirr of wheels and are the seed Of things which slay their sower, these each day Sees rife in England, and the gentle feet Of Beauty tread no more the stones of each unlovely street.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

We recognized her as a Heaven-sent genius, second only to Julia Reynolds and Antoinette Mayo (who I still think must have been the greatest of living actresses), yet in our secret souls we despised a little such absolute lack of self-consciousness.
— from In Our Convent Days by Agnes Repplier

You were ready to leave the child to die sooner than go on living as you'd been living.
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope

than to think of going on living, as you must, without it.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

'I shall go on laughing at you while you are so ridiculous.
— from Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Having thus got your groups as near to nature as you can, you may now have recourse to those [Pg 562] authors, particularly Fabricius and Latreille, who have subdivided the genera of Linné; and you will see which of your groups agree with theirs, detect your own errors, and often theirs, and be enabled to label each of your genera and higher groups, if already known, with its modern appellation.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

“Because I am glad, Yvonne, that fate seems to compel me to go on looking after you.”
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

It did not take the boys long to dress, and as they emerged from the tents, their faces glowing with health, and bronzed from their life in the open, they were as fine a group of lads as you would meet in a day's travel, or, maybe a day and a half.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

"You won't be, if you go on losing as you have done since you came.
— from Diana by Susan Warner