“Then,” he looked at me as keenly as he spoke, “all that is in doubt is the conscience of the employer, and the belief of your policemen as to whether or no that employer has a good conscience or a bad one.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

And then again the prelate says: 'May God increase and augment his Empire and its prosperity more and more, and keep all his subjects in peace and goodwill, and may all things go well throughout his Dominion!'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Polenka was in her everyday dress; she looked in timid perplexity at her mother, and kept at her side, hiding her tears.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ninth had married a kinswoman, and he sent his wife to sue for him.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The nails with which the soles were thickly studded had torn the meshes of the net, and the fisherman, exasperated against the miserly Abú Kasim and his slippers—for they were known to everyone—determined to throw them into his house through the window he had left open.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

Then, a moment after: “Katia Alexandrovna,” he said, in a louder voice, “play me something!”
— from Katia by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Witness may Burbon be; whom all the bands Which may a Knight assure had surely bound, Untill the love of Lordship and of lands Made him become most faithless and unsound: And witness be Gerioneo found, Who for like cause faire Belgè did oppresse,
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

Her father took the horse by the bit, and Mr. Armstrong kept at his side holding Faith firmly to her seat.
— from Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

He said to Samuel, "Fill thy horn with oil, and go, and I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided Me a king among his sons." God was looking out for a king, and sent Samuel to David.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

After this, there ensued a solemn silence, as all those who had fought together on the day before, were to separate again after the funeral; and many a hard-featured face waxed soft; and many a kiss and hearty shake of the hand were exchanged at parting.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

16:1 — “ fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons ” ; Ps. 139:16 — “ Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, And in thy book were all my members written ” ; Is.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous