At the London University they have a way of disguising English, described by Albert Smith as the Gower-street Dialect , which consists in transposing the initials of words, e.g. , “ poke a smipe ”—smoke a pipe, “ flutter-by ”—butterfly, &c.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The tears burst forth from his full heart as he attempted to reply, but Dorothy at length understood that he had a mother, who like the rest of her sect was a persecuted wanderer.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So then, with a sigh, she looks up to her tutelary god, Time, who nods assurance to her of future victory and glory, but whose wings beat the air so slowly with their mighty strokes, that the individual perishes or ever the day of triumph be come.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

V. worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere &c. 928; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Because he has lived so long, locked up, that he would be frightened—rave—tear himself to pieces—die—come to I know not what harm—if his door was left open.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Nor is a brother or sister who have lifted up their hands against a brother or sister, ever to come under the same roof or share in the same rites with those whom they have robbed of a child.
— from Laws by Plato

What do you understand to be the nature of the influence of the cradle land upon "the historical race"?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Religions give men a general habit of conducting themselves with a view to futurity: in this respect they are not less useful to happiness in this life than to felicity hereafter; and this is one of their chief political characteristics.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[ This eminent circumstance, that while Moses's hands were lift up towards heaven, the Israelites prevailed, and while they were let down towards the earth, the Amalekites prevailed, seems to me the earliest intimation we have of the proper posture, used of old, in solemn prayer, which was the stretching out of the hands [and eyes] towards heaven, as other passages of the Old and New Testament inform us.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And, with streaming eyes and choking voice, the black man looked up to heaven.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The dark lanterns lit up their haggard faces.
— from Madge Morton's Trust by Amy D. V. Chalmers

We can now more frequently greet Anacreon Moore, wreathing his harp with the paternal shamrock, characteristically mingled with "pansies for love ;" Montgomery, mourning over our nature's degradation; telling us of the affections and passions of earth, yet luring us to higher hopes and brighter consummation; his every line evincing that chastened sorrow which Byron threw into the portrait of the Sheffield bard— "With broken lyre, and cheek serenely pale.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various

There were work-people, with weary eyes, hastening to their shops and factories; market-women with loads upon their heads; peddlers bending with their packs; barge-men with shaggy hair and bleared faces, jostling roughly on their way; kind-eyed clergymen speeding perhaps to the bedsides of the dying; and, after a while, groups of children, with satchels slung over their shoulders, whizzing past, toward the distant school.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

She generally wore a silk dress, with a long train, a deep flounce all round, and a very long waist; her gown was very tightly laced up to her neck, round which was a ruff or frill; the sleeves came down below the elbows, and to each of them four or five large cuffs were attached; a large bonnet, quite [91] flat, high-heeled shoes, a large black silk cloak trimmed with lace, and a gold-headed cane, completed her every-day costume for eighty years; in which dress she occasionally walked round the Square.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

A letter of his father’s, written two years or so before the wreck, speaks of him as turning up from the China station full of life and spirit, lighting up the house at Langham.
— from Life of Frederick Marryat by David Hannay

Macaulay hated Brougham, and was, perhaps, a little unjust to him.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

The fire was burning brightly, and the old cat which they had brought with them to Gosport was stretched at full length upon the hearthrug.
— from Aaron the Jew: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

For--and now almost he prayed that this man might be lying--if all were wrong in what they accused him of, if instead of leading Urbaine to her death he had saved, protected her, all the same he was doomed.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

“She ’s been long gone,” she said, looking up to him as he drew on his great mittens and reached for the lantern.
— from Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee

Only where the knowledge of the Christ has been received is the veil which lies upon their hearts taken away; they can then appreciate both all the virtues of the ancient dispensation and all its defects; they can glorify God for what it was and for what it shut them up to; they can see that in all its parts it had a reference to something lying beyond itself—to a "new thing" that God would do for His people; and in welcoming the new covenant, and its Mediator Jesus Christ, they can feel that they are not making void, but establishing, the law.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney