After a life passed in the exercise of every Christian virtue—after a lengthened journey over its narrow stony pathway, whereon temptations have been met and triumphed over—where we have struggled with difficulties, and borne afflictions without murmur or complaint, cheering on the weary we have found sinking by the wayside, comforting and assisting the fallen, endeavouring humbly and faithfully to do our duty to God and humanity—even after a life thus passed, when we at
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

And others say it came to them for so much, and, therefore, another must take it for so much, though there is wanting both as to weight and measure; but in all these things there are juggles; or if not, such must know that 'that which is altogether just,' they must do (Deut 16:20).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

"Oh, de good Lord hab bring me face to face wid my ole Uncle Joe; oh, I neber 'spected to see him no more in dis wicked world.
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

I jumped on to it—had to—then jumped off it nippier still and, turning to the right, began to walk towards Birdie's dugout.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

You cannot be Santa Claus, John!” “Oh, Isobel!” “No,” she said firmly, “you cannot be Santa Claus.
— from The Adventures of a Suburbanite by Ellis Parker Butler

While the heart beats young!—O the splendor of the Spring, With all her dewy jewels on, is not so fair a thing!
— from A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley

This was one of the principal reasons for the mutiny, and without considering the question of justice or injustice, Nana Sahib satiated his desire for vengeance under the most atrocious circumstances.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis