—We go to the house of God, Mr Casey said, in all humility to pray to our Maker and not to hear election addresses.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

‘If a bachelor happens to have saved a little matter of money,’ said Mr Lillyvick, ‘his sisters and brothers, and nephews and nieces, look to that money, and not to him; even if, by being a public character, he is the head of the family, or, as it may be, the main from which all the other little branches are turned on, they still wish him dead all the while, and get low-spirited every time they see him looking in good health, because they want to come into his little property.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Here the man seeking mercy looks straight at the God of mercy and never takes his eyes away from Him till mercy is granted.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

But the former are so beneficial, that the colony trade, though subject to a monopoly, and, notwithstanding the hurtful effects of that monopoly, is still, upon the whole, beneficial, and greatly beneficial, though a good deal less so than it otherwise would be.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

THE GILDED ONE: "But you never mentioned it to me?" AUNTIE: "Nor to her, either.
— from The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

Before I could say anything to her McMeekin gave orders that a second bed should be brought into my room and that she, the red-haired, freckled girl, should sit beside me and not take her eyes off me for a moment while he went home to get his bag.
— from Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham

Miracles are not the highest evidence, but they are evidence.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

His mate kept between him and me, and never took her eyes from me.
— from The Children's Book of Birds by Olive Thorne Miller

They meant absolutely nothing to her, except that they would remind her of goats and eagles.
— from Heidi (Gift Edition) by Johanna Spyri

The spirit of rivalry commenced in him very early; it was the only test of his powers, and he seems to have pitted himself in the beginning of his career against all his contemporaries, from Mr. Henderson to Girtin, and many of the old masters, and never to have entirely relinquished the habit.
— from Turner by W. Cosmo (William Cosmo) Monkhouse

I am sure you will help me if you can, and will sympathize in my anxiety not to have even an allusion that involves practical impossibilities.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

A man who is taught by the church the blasphemous doctrine about his not being able to be saved by his own efforts, but that there is another means, will inevitably have recourse to this means, and not to his efforts, on which he is assured it is a sin to depend.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Princess talked incessantly all dinner-time to the Prince of Crimea, who ate an immense deal too much, and never took his eyes off his plate, except when Giglio, who was carving a goose, sent a quantity of stuffing and onion sauce into one of them.
— from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray