For it would contain something adapted to the moral, religious, or spiritual taste of some class or portion of society, and hence make it and its disciples loved instead of hated.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

It has very little intermixture of humour.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

I was not rich myself, and, as I was no longer in love, I only heaved a deep sigh, and remained as cold as ice.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The long illness of her dear father prevented my paying her that attention which duty and affection equally dictated, and I have too much reason to fear that the governess to whose care I consigned her was unequal to the charge.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Accordingly, whilst the dictator is engaged in person in holding a levy, in ordering his [Pg 382] master of the horse, Lucius Valerius, to bring up the troops from Veii, in making preparations and arrangements, so that he may attack the enemy on equal terms, in the mean time the army of the Capitol, wearied out with keeping guard and with watches, having surmounted all human sufferings, whilst nature would not suffer famine alone to be overcome, looking forward from day to day, to see whether any succour would come from the dictator, at length not only food but hope also failing, and their arms weighing down their debilitated bodies, whilst the guards were being relieved, insisted that there should be either a surrender, or that they should be bought off, on whatever terms were possible, the Gauls intimating in rather plain terms, that they could be induced for no very great compensation to relinquish the siege.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

So to bed very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of his pain.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Vaguely Maggie felt this, in the strong resurgent love toward her brother that swept away all the later impressions of hard, cruel offence and misunderstanding, and left only the deep, underlying, unshakable memories of early union.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

His brother in these words addressed: “Here, surely, is the home, in sight, Of that illustrious anchorite: Here great Agastya's brother leads A life intent on holy deeds.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

So successful were his efforts, that even the deaf old lady insisted on having one or two of his best jokes retailed through the trumpet; and even she condescended to observe to the spinster aunt, that ‘He’ (meaning Jingle) ‘was an impudent young fellow:’ a sentiment in
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Mr. Bruff had looked in on him, for a moment; had attempted to renew his protest against our proceedings; and had once more failed to produce the smallest impression on Mr. Blake.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He led in one hand a wild-looking urchin of three or four years old; in the other he was crushing a beautiful young pigeon, which panted and struggled within his bony grasp in agony and terror.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

'I am only affected by living with one who does,' Miss Asper observed, and the lofty isolation of her head above politics gave her a moral attractiveness in addition to physical beauty.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith

Moreover, it was the Sabbath —that day when the hum of life is ordinarily hushed, and when men are commonly with their families in the house of God.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

About 563, when in his forty-second year, and accompanied by twelve companions, Columba found a resting-place on the little island of Hy or Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, whence he set himself to the great work of his life—the conversion of the Pictish tribes beyond the Grampians.
— from In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

A prouder young woman was seldom seen than she, when, having 329 composed herself, she electrified the family by appearing before them with the letter in one hand, the check in the other, announcing that she had won the prize.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Adeline, incapable of uttering a word, seized his hand and laid it on her heart; a tear of joy trembled in her eyes.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Thereupon she approached the little infant, and breathed her warm breath upon it and caressed it until it became quiet, and then after wrapping about it the cotton-wool, she gently lifted it on her broad horns, and, turning, carried it steadily away toward the south, followed on either side by her children, who kept crying out “Neh!
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Also, the name of the present heroine, Leoncia, is of his own devising.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London