when the children of [1553] Israel murmured against Pharaoh in Egypt, he commanded his officers to double their task, and let them get straw themselves, and yet make their full number of bricks; for the sole cause why they mutiny, and are evil at ease, is, they are idle.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides—if he be not himself the age transfigur'd, and if to him is not open'd the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes, and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shapes of to-day, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour, and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run, and wait his development.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Go and wait for me Brígida; Voy, pues, Brigida, I am going straight there a entrar por la portería, through the little door here, y a cegar a sor María to blind Sister Maria, la tornera.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A generation saw them almost extinct.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

As long as these savages consented to retire before the civilized settlers, the federal right was not contested: but as soon as an Indian tribe attempted to fix its dwelling upon a given spot, the adjacent States claimed possession of the lands and the rights of sovereignty over the natives.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

" 12 Then God said to Adam and Eve, "Since you have made this offering and have offered it to Me, I shall make it
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most 30 dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, / The seeming truth which cunning times put on / To entrap the wisest.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The idea of an International Bureau for Masonic Affairs had already, as we have seen, been started in Switzerland; this was the same idea applied to occult groups, so that all such societies as Rosicrucianism, Theosophy with its various ramifications of Co-Masonry, etc., Hermetic Orders, isolated occultists, and so on, were to be placed under German control.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I can't bear it—let go!" shrieked the attorney.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

"He wouldn't favour you much," said the groom sourly; "too 'andsome."
— from Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit

For the duke had a recollection of giddy shops, and of giddy shopmen too; and it was by serving as one for a day that a certain great nobleman came to victory with a jealously guarded dame beautiful as Venus.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

We'll get seats together, and have a bully time, if you're willing to go with us.
— from Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther

On the German side the attack on St. Loup [53] was unsuccessful; and since from the locality of the fighting on the part of the other Corps no tidings reached him, and darkness was approaching, General von Alvensleben postponed any further attack on the city till the following day.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

"No," she answered, "he would not mention it; but only that he was one who could be trusted with the lives of ten thousand persons, and so zealous a Catholic he would any day risk his life to do some good service to a priest." "And hath this boatman promised," I inquired, "to wait for Mr. Watson and convey him away?" "Yea, most strictly," she answered, "at twelve o'clock of the night he and his companion shall approach a boat to the side of some scaffolding which lieth under the wall of the prison; and when the clock of the tower striketh, Mr. Watson shall open his window, the bars of which he hath found it possible to remove, and by means of the cord, which is of the length he measured should be necessary, he will let himself down on the planks, whence he can step into the boat, and be carried to a place of concealment in a close part of the city till it shall be convenient for him to cross the sea to France.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

He had not made up his mind how deep his mourning ought to be for a murdered aunt-in-law, and was, to use his own expression, still poised like a humming-bird between a grey silk tie and a black one with a white spot, when we reached the shop.
— from The Romance of His Life, and Other Romances by Mary Cholmondeley