5 A Tombe your Muse must to his Fame supply, No other Monuments can never die; And as he was a two-fold Priest; in youth, Apollo's; afterwards, the voice of Truth, Gods Conduit-pipe for grace, who chose him for 10 His extraordinary Embassador, So let his Liegiers with the Poets joyne, Both having shares, both must in griefe combine: Whil'st Johnson forceth with his Elegie Teares from a griefe-unknowing Scythians eye, 15 (Like Moses at whose stroke the waters gusht From forth the Rock, and like a Torrent rusht.)
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

One old man, a neighbour, more bold than wise, hearing the spirit just by his side, but being unable to see it, threatened to stick it with his knife.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

When the sun arose and shone over the sea, she recovered, and felt a sharp pain; but just before her stood the handsome young prince.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

By a curious coincidence, just about the same date, Rezzonico’s mother died of joy because her son had become pope.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Still, Wegg is established there, and would seem, judged by his secret proceedings, to cherish a notion of making a discovery.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The boy cocked one eye at him—he knew that Jurgis was a “jailbird” by his shaven head.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I said, I was too fine, and would have laid aside some of the jewels; but he said, It would be thought a slight to me from him, as his wife; and though as I apprehended, it might be, that people would talk as it was, yet he had rather they should say any thing, than that I was not put upon an equal footing, as his wife, with any lady he might have married.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The prophet was at first inclined to gratify the Jews by the choice of Jerusalem; but he soon returned to a more natural partiality; and five times every day the eyes of the nations at Astracan, at Fez, at Delhi, are devoutly turned to the holy temple of Mecca.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

An American nisei from California should not be asked to talk slangy Edokko Japanese; a soldier detailed to psychological warfare, because of some special linguistic qualification, should not be considered a great journalist, radio commentator, or actor just because he speaks the right language.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Badcock (which is Jon Bee) had seen (and worshipped)
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

Just before he stepped into the boat he turned to the wise men, who were to remain and said: "It wrings my heart to part from you, but there is need for you to stay here in order to complete the tasks already begun."
— from The Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait

And although we are made partakers of redemption from the curse of the law in this life, so far forth as to be justified therefrom; and also as to the receiving of an earnest while here, of being wholly possessed of the glory of the next world hereafter; yet we neither are, nor shall be redeemed from all those things, which yet our head has, as head, got a complete and eternal victory over, until just before he shall deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all; for 'the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death' (1 Cor 15:26).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

What chance had he with everything against him—her old, fanatical father who loved her with the tender devotion of his strong manhood—her own blind admiration for the new President, whose coming had brought war—and worst of all he must go and leave John by her side!
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

When Celestin, reproving him for his martial propensities, interceded for his release, King Richard sent to the pope the coat of mail in which the prelate had been captured, with the inquiry made to Jacob by his sons, “Know, whether it be thy son’s coat?” to which the good pontiff responded by abandoning the appeal.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Several persons thought that the Abbe had invented it by way of a joke, but he swears by all that is good that he found it in the annals of Sweden.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 01 by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

The man whom in the street you judged, by his surly look, to be a village schoolmaster, is here a prophet.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various