He says that there is but one only living and true God, who is a good, wise, and powerful spirit (this Indian say too) and that there are three persons in the god head, of one substance and power, God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, that the Father is of none, neither begotten, or proceeding, the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son, and that the Holy Ghost visited a virgin, and conveyed the Son into her; where he continued nine moons and then was born like other children, was born God and man, that when he was about thirty years old began to preach, but the great men no like his preaching, sent their warriors, who took and killed him.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

Then, becoming instantly consoled, on thinking of the other children who were downstairs waiting at the door, she ran downstairs followed by the rest, returning in a minute with another group, then a third; for all the little ragamuffins of the countryside, even to the little beggars in rags, had congregated in order to participate in this new pleasure; and each time she repeated her mother's grimaces with absolute perfection.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Surprised at my knowledge, she rose from her chair to get a valuable gold watch and presented to my master, who, not knowing how to express his deep gratitude, treated us to the most comic scene.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Of the truth of which, this gentleman was a painful example.——But to know by what means this came to pass,—and to make that knowledge of use to you, I insist upon it that you read the two following chapters, which contain such a sketch of his life and conversation, as will carry its moral along with it.—When this is done, if nothing stops us in our way, we will go on with the midwife.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Here is one who generates freely, and then lets them go without a pang and troubles himself no more about them.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And let Vaśishṭha, who excels In Warriors' art and mystic spells, In love of God without a peer, Confirm the boon you promise here.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

During his lifetime, I had opportunities to know him well, and take much pleasure in bearing testimony to his great worth and personal kindness.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It is you who stay at home and will not let your sons go who are poor—poor and naked and mean and small—pisen poor, and so are your sons, with all their prosperous farms and fat cattle and their souls no bigger than a flea's—if as big.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Being tired of being here, and sick of their damned sluttish dinner, my wife and Mercer and I away to the King’s play-house, to see the “Scornfull Lady;” but it being now three o’clock there was not one soul in the pit; whereupon, for shame, we would not go in, but, against our wills, went all to see “Tu Quoque” again, where there is a pretty store of company, and going with a prejudice the play appeared better to us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A sword-fish running his sword through one of the glass windows, and perhaps coming in himself along with the water, sent a chill down her back every time she thought about it and talked about it.
— from The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton

All of which is true; yet Paul Gauguin was a painter who had something new to say, and he said it in a very personal fashion.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

—The first son was called He who Passed by here on his way back to the Water; the second, He who runs very swiftly to get back to the Water; the third, He who floats down the stream; the fourth, Red Breast; the fifth, Big Turtle; the sixth, Young one who carries a turtle on his back; the seventh, Turtle that kicks out his legs and paws the ground when a person takes hold of him.
— from Omaha sociology (1884 N 03 / 1881-1882 (pages 205-370)) by James Owen Dorsey

By the time, however, that the fog had thoroughly disappeared, the sun had made its way down behind the gentle hills, and thence, as if with a slight chassez to the south, had come again fully into sight, glaring with a purplish lustre through a chasm that entered the valley from the west.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

From up here in the 18th lane, the Polar ocean lay a glittering white and purple expanse beneath us.
— from Tarrano the Conqueror by Ray Cummings

Jean Muir turned around on the music stool and looked at him with the cold keen glance which always puzzled him.
— from Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott

The 4th December, a Dutch ship arrived from Coromandel, from which we had intelligence that the Globe was at Patane bound for Siam.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

The vision haunts them of some benevolent old gentleman, with a pocket full of money, a trunk full of mortgages and stocks, and a mind remarkably appreciative of merit and genius, who will, perhaps, give or lend them from ten to twenty thousand dollars, with which they will commence and go on swimmingly.
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders