And Osiris of Egypt also is represented as making a descent into hell, and after a period of three days rose again.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

One meal a day is her allowance.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

One of these children grew to be a very old man, and died in Honolulu a few years ago.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Then a child came up and said—now this was a poor street beggar, remember, a boy whom people called as bold as a thief —he came and looked at Tiny, and said gently, as if speaking to an elder brother whom he loved and trusted: “My father and mother are dead; I have a little brother and sister at home, and they depend on me; I have been trying to get work, but no one believes my story.
— from My First Cruise, and Other stories by William Henry Giles Kingston

A man may have his paroxysms of regret, but [16] the question is: Does it make any difference in his attitude?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

He made no hard and fast surrender of his will, but recognized the fact, not for the first time, that when Effie made a decision it had a shining rightness.
— from The Marbeck Inn: A Novel by Harold Brighouse

He also goes often to Alcott's, and confesses that he has made a discovery in him, and gives vent to his admiration or his confusion in characteristic exaggeration; but between this extreme and that you may get a fair report, and draw an inference if you can.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

But however this may be, the outstanding technical lesson is the same—the extraordinary power possessed by mounted riflemen, trained to entrench and shoot straight, even when they have lost their mobility, even when they suffer from 121 flagrant defects of organization, morale, and discipline, in holding at bay vastly superior regular forces of all arms.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

When I went down to breakfast, I said to my aunt, ‘Darling, I have an irresistible impulse to go to Wales at once, instead of waiting till the twentieth.’
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

Their real allegiance was sworn henceforth to the swashbuckling young buffoon, who, taking leave of the Death's Head Hussars after two years' colonelcy, admonished them to "think of him whose most ardent desire it has always been to be allowed to share at your side the supreme moment of a soldier's happiness--when the King calls to arms and the bugle sounds the charge!"
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

In November, J. M. Ainsworth died in hospital at Washington, and Alfred Wilder died in hospital at Fairfax.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

“Either they will receive me and do it handsomely, and come to their stepmother’s house—all the party!—or I will see them in lower depths than the Baron has reached, and you may tell them I said so!—At last I shall turn nasty.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Taste demands of us moderation and dignity; it has a horror of everything sharp, hard and violent; it likes all that shapes itself with ease and harmony.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller