I think God has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him, and make him a proverb, because he hath forsaken the way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

he was not true to his profession!" I think God has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him and laugh at him, because he hath forsaken the way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Stimulated by apprehension, he left the scout, who immediately entered into a loud conversation with the stranger that had so unceremoniously enlisted himself in the party of travelers that morning.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I also accuse the four Nuns, Violante, Camilla, Alix, and Mariana, as being her Accomplices, and equally criminal.' Here St. Ursula ended her narrative.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It was the fear of a woman, of Katerina Ivanovna, who had so urgently entreated him in the note handed to him by Madame Hohlakov to come and see her about something.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here she usually exercised herself in elegant arts, cultivated only because they were congenial to her taste, and in which native genius, assisted by the instructions of Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert, made her an early proficient.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

He saw upon every hand examples of the terrible inadequacy of the existing [Pg 331] system to yield even the most primitive benefit of government,—the reasonable security of person and property.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

Stimulated by apprehension, he left the scout, who immediately entered into a loud conversation with the stranger that had so unceremoniously enlisted himself in the party of travellers that morning.
— from The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Amen hath decreed for him his sovereignty upon earth, he hath made this period of his life twice as long as that of any other king, the King of the South and North, the Lord of the Two Lands, Usermaātrā-setep-en-Amen, life, strength, health [be to him!], the son of Rā, the lord of crowns, Rameses (IV)-heqmaāt-meri-Amen, life, strength, health [be to him!], who is endowed with life for ever.
— from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

As he said these words, he stood up, extending his hand.
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott