Back from pursuit thy Powers with loud acclaim Thee only extolled, Son of thy Father's might, To execute fierce vengeance on his foes, Not so on Man: Him through their malice fallen, Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much more to pity incline: No sooner did thy dear and only Son Perceive thee purposed not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to pity inclined, He to appease thy wrath, and end the strife Of mercy and justice in thy face discerned, Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat Second to thee, offered himself to die For Man's offence.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

More wolves were appearing every moment and joining in the chase.
— from White Fang by Jack London

The punishment of death was inflicted on the crimes of adultery, murder, perjury, and the capital thefts of a horse or ox; and the fiercest of men were mild and just in their intercourse with each other.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Fanny wrote to offer herself; and her mother's answer, though short, was so kind—a few simple lines expressed so natural and motherly a joy in the prospect of seeing her child again, as to confirm all the daughter's views of happiness in being with her—convincing her that she should now find a warm and affectionate friend in the “mama” who had certainly shewn no remarkable fondness for her formerly; but this she could easily suppose to have been her own fault or her own fancy.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

You must all join in the chorus, you know.”
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

I had been on a man-of-war before, in Boston, and it interested me to see, on this Viking ship, how the seaman was once all in all—how he sailed and took storm and calm alike with undaunted heart, and gave chase to whosoever reechoed his cry, "We are of the sea!" and fought with brains and sinews, self-reliant, self-sufficient, instead of being thrust into the background by unintelligent machinery, as Jack is to-day.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

I prayed to God that it might go well, for all is to His greater honor and glory; and ecce, the symphony began, Raaff was standing beside me, and just in the middle of the allegro a passage occurred which I felt sure must please, and there was a burst of applause; but as I knew at the time I wrote it what effect it was sure to produce, I brought it in once more at the close, and then rose shouts of "Da capo!"
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Back from pursuit thy Powers with loud acclaime Thee only extold, Son of thy Fathers might, To execute fierce vengeance on his foes, Not so on Man; him through their malice fall’n, Father of Mercie and Grace, thou didst not doome So strictly, but much more to pitie encline: No sooner did thy dear and onely Son Perceive thee purpos’d not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to pitie enclin’d, He to appease thy wrauth, and end the strife Of Mercy and Justice in thy face discern’d, Regardless of the Bliss wherein hee sat Second to thee, offerd himself to die For mans offence.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Similar catastrophes, in which thousands and thousands of victims were suddenly destroyed, have frequently occurred in 98 Peru and Chili, in the West Indies and Central America, in the Moluccas and Java, in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea; but a bare mention of the loss of life conveys but a faint idea of the extent of misery inflicted by one of those great earthquakes which mark with an ominous shade many large tracts of the earth’s surface.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

[55] ‘In the time of the Duke of Somerset’s chancellorship at Cambridge, during the discontents of several members of that university at the rigour of his government and paucity of his patronage, Tudway, himself a malecontent, and joining in the clamour, said, “The chancellor rides us all, without a bit in our mouths .”
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

“It was so, and Frank Braine snatched me away just in time.”
— from The Rajah of Dah by George Manville Fenn

According to a chronicle, the most ancient Jews in the Rhine district are said to 41 have been the descendants of the legionaries who took part in the destruction of the Temple.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

The union of mercy and judgment is the inevitable result of the righteousness which is the foundation of His government.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

Na, there’s nocht o’ Richie Cameron aboot you.’ ” “Aye, faith, do ye tell me, and Jean is to mairry the minister, and
— from The Standard Bearer by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

He can often give men a job in the dead of winter, when farm work is scarce and the wages paid for it are less; such as hedge-cutting, mending the gaps in the fences, cleaning out ditches or the watercourses through the wood.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

"Especially if he had done so many artistic jobs in the same line for you.
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

At Belle's cottage door I dismounted, and with the clatter of the horse there came old Betty, with that queer look on her face of disdain and mystery, and just itching to be at the talking.
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

His brother always had something new, and it was always absorbingly interesting to Ozzie B. “That,” said Archie B., solemnly, “I allers say after meetin' a Jonah in the road.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore