The pope menaced; Edward called a parliament.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

On the other hand, to an intrinsically sound nature, illness may even constitute a powerful stimulus to life, to a surplus of life.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He looked at it stupidly for a moment, and then with an uncertain glance at me, folded it with what seemed to me exaggerated care and placed it in his bosom.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and 10 quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed?
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Perhaps some one annual, of more comprehensive design than its fellows, might even contain a portrait of the mother of Lady Mulberry Hawk, with lines by the father of Sir Dingleby Dabber.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Nevertheless much evidence cannot at present be advanced to prove that the eye actually suffers injury from the want of support during violent expiration; but there is some.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Poetry here of a very high (perhaps the highest) order of verbal melody, exquisitely clean and pure, and almost always perfumed, like the tuberose, to an extreme of sweetness—sometimes not, however, but even then a camellia of the hot-house, never a common flower—the verse of inside elegance and high-life; and yet preserving amid all its super-delicatesse a smack of outdoors and outdoor folk.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And O my Eppie, &c. A' pleasure exile me, dishonour defile me, If e'er I beguile ye, my Eppie Adair!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Music, especially choral and part-singing, has been cultivated in Lancashire with a devotion equalled only perhaps in Yorkshire, and certainly nowhere excelled.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

But I forget that we are not here to have things made easy, comfortable, and pleasant for us.
— from Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick

From this he seems to have been delivered, partly by the advice of wiser and more experienced Christians, and partly by reading such books as Scougal's "Life of God in the Soul of Man," Law's "Serious Call," Baxter's "Call to the Unconverted," and Alleine's "Alarm to Unconverted Sinners."
— from A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

(Signed) D. M. EVANS, Colonel and Provost Marshal .
— from Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 by Francis Warrington Dawson

The motives which prompted this eastward movement have been variously connected with religious persecution in India, missionary enterprise, commerce and political adventure.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Rainey and Ord have shown experimentally that colloid (noncrystallizable) bodies like mucus, epithelial cells, albumin, pus, blood, hyaline casts of the kidney tubes, etc., not only determine the precipitation of crystallizable salts from a strong solution, but they determine the precipitation in the form of globular masses, or minute spheres, which, by further similar accessions, become stones, or calculi, of various sizes.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

Though we now intended to depart, we were [13] only allowed to do so after partaking of most excellent coffee and pound-cake.
— from My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915 by Gunther Plüschow

The last crop I raised cost me eleven cents a pound and sold for three under the hammer at sheriff's sale.
— from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs