The Eternal Father in person could do nothing more.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Indigo Planters can do anything.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Well, I am going to explain that geometrical figure, but on one condition—that it exists already on the blackboard, for I personally cannot draw it.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Such a community would [pg 025] find its delight in performing cruel deeds, casting aside, for once, the gloom of constant anxiety and precaution.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The principal founders of Grand Lodge were, as we have seen, clergymen, both engaged in preaching Christian doctrines at their respective churches.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was sitting now in the drawing-room, and the room impressed him strangely, with its poor, common decorations, its wretched pictures, and though there were arm-chairs in it, and a huge lamp with a shade over it, it still looked like an uninhabited place, a huge barn, and it was obvious that no one could feel at home in such a room, except a man like the doctor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A. Wood-wind in pairs (close distribution): [ Listen ]
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

When Emily and Anne had both gone to the grave, Charlotte, it is probable, carefully destroyed every scrap of their correspondence, and, indeed, of their literary effects; and thus it is that, apart from her books and literary fragments, we know Emily only by two formal letters to her sister’s friend.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

It was the custom of the seminary that the students had to take turns in performing certain duties for the grade, each one for a week.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

The woman [131] who sat bowed over on the front seat like an image of despair, wore a black veil and cotton gloves; and black sunbonnets, evidently borrowed from grown-up neighbors, covered the flaxen hair of three little girls in pink calico dresses, who nestled against her.
— from Mary Ware's Promised Land by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Our immortal parents came down to fall; came down to transgress the laws of immortality; came down to give birth to mortal tabernacles for a world of spirits.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

“Dicendo autem ‘ Quid me vocas bonum ,’ opinionem eius qui interrogaverat suo responso refutavit, quia iste putabat Christum de hâc terrâ et sicut unum ex magistris
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

From what we have already said, it will have been gathered that in populous commercial districts a County Court judge may be kept largely occupied with cases of as much importance, and involving as difficult legal questions, as the bulk of those tried in the High Court.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

“It looks to me like Jimmy Faxon is plumb cowed down and 'feared of that there old bush whacker—it looks like he ain't got the spirit of a rabbit left in him.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

There is hardly any tilled land in the county; its herds are large, and its population consequently declining.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell