She was naturally of a kindly and forgiving disposition.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

A few allies lent assistance; the rest, struck with fear, kept aloof from dangers.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size This said, they both betook them several wayes, 610 Both to destroy, or unimmortal make All kinds, and for destruction to mature Sooner or later; which th' Almightie seeing, From his transcendent Seat the Saints among, To those bright Orders utterd thus his voice.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

I remember myself what was once told me when I was a little child; I remember, though I was not ten years old at the time, how I saw at our house the late Sapieha, lieutenant of a regiment of cuirassiers, who later was Court Marshal of the Kingdom, and finally died as Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, at the age of one hundred and ten years; when Jan III.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

They were, of course, aware of her history—the exact situation of every girl in the room was known and freely discussed by all the others—but the knowledge did not produce in them any awkward sense of class distinction: it merely explained why her untutored fingers were still blundering over the rudiments of the trade.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

And therewith Sir Modred fell down stark dead to the earth, and King Arthur fell down also in a swoon, and swooned many times.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Wolf river Scercely runs at all, at 3 P. M we halted a little above the Nadawa river on the S. Side of the Missouri to kill Some meat that which we killed a fiew days past being all Spoiled.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This said, they both betook them several wayes, Both to destroy, or unimmortal make All kinds, and for destruction to mature Sooner or later; which th’ Almightie seeing, From his transcendent Seat the Saints among, To those bright Orders utterd thus his voice.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Then, indeed, for the first time, did the people of Harper's Ferry begin to suspect a fraud of some kind and future developments went to confirm their unpleasant surmises.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

But when they join'd, the dreadful clamour rose To such a height, as not the sea, when up the North-spirit blows Her raging billows, bellows so against the beaten shore; Nor such a rustling keeps a fire, driven with violent blore Through woods that grow against a hill; nor so the fervent strokes Of almost-bursting winds resound against a grove of oaks; As did the clamour of these hosts, when both the battles clos'd.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

Turner's condition was known and frankly discussed.
— from The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart

THE NET BROKEN 'And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

"At the head of a koppboorde," a few days later, Suffolk made Marguerite renew her promise to him.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

You can mourn o'er the exile of Russia From kindred and friends doomed to roam.
— from Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

It required a brave but sensitively pure man to provide for the want which existed for some reliable medical instruction upon points which every woman and every married man ought to know, and few do.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

The squire sent up his plate as he spoke, for the ham that had been waiting all this while; perhaps by way of creating a divertissement; and Ben lifted the slice with a jerk, and then jerked the knife and fork down again.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.