Another thing that hath troubled me, even since my late amendments, is, that if I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude, that notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

He didn’t really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber; Which we will take, until my roof whirl round With the vertigo: and my dwarf shall dance, My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

“I see a light a-comin’ roun’ de p’int bymeby, so I wade’ in en shove’ a log ahead o’ me en swum more’n half way acrost de river, en got in ’mongst de drift-wood, en kep’ my head down low, en kinder swum agin de current tell de raff come along.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Dominant species spreading from any region might encounter still more dominant species, and then their triumphant course, or even their existence, would cease.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

— O, my most equal hearers, if these deeds, Acts of this bold and most exorbitant strain, May pass with sufferance; what one citizen But owes the forfeit of his life, yea, fame, To him that dares traduce him?
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Erden , v. to dwell, MD; erthe , S, MD; earden , MD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Sancho took it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the cries of his master exclaiming, “Sancho, my son, drink not water; drink it not, my son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the blessed balsam (and he held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking two drops of it thou wilt certainly be restored.” At these words Sancho turned his eyes asquint, and in a still louder voice said, “Can it be your worship has forgotten that I am not a knight, or do you want me to end by vomiting up what bowels I have left after last night?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This disposition has ever made me employ so much care, use so many precautions, such secrecy in my adventures, that all of them have failed; in a word, my want of success with the women has ever proceeded from having loved them too well.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What made everything still more sad was the great service rendered by traitorous Africanders as guides to the enemy.
— from Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell

Tu eni m es spes mea et subditor um iubilus ex
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

*The Elder Turf-Boy* *An August Afternoon* *Rickeen* *Ross Lake* "*The hovering horde vacillates no longer*" "*A voice fell like a falling star*" "*I wash meself every Sathurday morning*"
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

"I've been meaning ever so many times to ask you about her, and something else has seemed to come up.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

And when you're the Princess, you'll love me ever so much more than you ever loved the archer.'
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit

So, and only so, will you truly answer the idea, the description, 'sons of God'—that glorious term, never to be satisfied by the relation of mere creaturehood, or by that of merely exterior sanctification, mere membership in a community of men, though it be the Visible Church itself.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

I've been goading him to it, may the Lord forgive me, ever since Miss Nellie there came round one night and persuaded my Tessie to join.
— from The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by John Miller

He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., and a magnificent equestrian statue marks the spot.
— from From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View by Luther W. Hopkins

They were the Mayor, the High Bailiff (Elliot Hollier, Esq.), Mr. W. H. Brooke, Mr. S. Rudge, Mr. R. Houghton, Mr. W. Wigginton, Mr. Waring, Mr. G. B. Lowe, Mr. Masefield, Mr. Walker, Mr. William Haden, jun., Mr. Minty, Mr. Laskey, Mr. Wainwright, Mr. E. Sanders, Mr. Denison, Mr. J. Cartwright, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Renaud.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark