Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations.
— 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.

With these advantages he bought himself a house, and lived in great luxury.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

No—rather let me sacrifice my pride to give her a little innocent gratification.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Vronsky did not even look at it, but anxious to get in a long way first began sawing away at the reins, lifting the mare’s head and letting it go in time with her paces.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

And now the young King and Queen were thoroughly happy, and lived in gladness together.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Then still sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing seven little children.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The ribbon around Toto's neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy's dress.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The turtle now has ceased to call Upon her crimson-footed groom, The grey wolf prowls about the stall, The lily’s singing seneschal Sleeps in the lily-bell, and all The violet hills are lost in gloom.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Long may thy pen its pleasant work pursue, Resuscitate the mighty men of old, Again enact the noble deeds that once Made history, and living interest gave To the sad monuments of earlier time.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

Visitors from Chicago used to refer to him, it was claimed, with naïve simplicity as "Mary Leiter's husband," and let it go at that.
— from East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield

[A; b6] talk harshly and loudly in giving commands.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In his after life Ivan Gregoriev was called upon to bear many burdens of grief; but none of them ever caused him to waver in the assurance that the death of his mother had brought him the bitterest suffering he could be called upon to endure.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

However, at least I gave him a chance of life.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

And he contemplated, with an emotion which every word of the little woman increased, this poor, miserable apartment, where the wife lived, taking care of her children, while the husband, Monsieur Puck or Monsieur Gavroche, paraded at the fancy fairs or at the theatres; figured at the races; tasted the Baroness Dinati’s wines, caring only for Johannisberg with the blue and gold seal of 1862; and gave to Potel and Chabot, in his articles, lessons in gastronomy.
— from Prince Zilah — Complete by Jules Claretie

He leaned against the machine, raised the inert form over his head and laid it gently on the top flat surface.
— from Accidental Flight by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

The old toad bowed low in the water before her, and said: ‘Here is my son; you shall marry him, and live in great magnificence down under the marsh.’
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

" "Did you catch them with a hook and line?" inquired George.
— from Frank, the Young Naturalist by Harry Castlemon

We had always lived in good style, and I never thought for a moment he was not a rich man, but when his estate was settled I found it was greatly involved, and I was forced to face an uncertain future, with scarcely a dollar to call my own.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper