She sometimes came into the kitchen all wildered like, and looked as if she would fain beg assistance; but I was not going to disobey the master: I never dare disobey him, Mrs. Dean; and, though I thought it wrong that Kenneth should not be sent for, it was no concern of mine either to advise or complain, and I always refused to meddle.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

If it be a fact capable of proof, and which was believed by all Christians for 1500 years, That there was a true Succession of Ministers from the Apostles—are we not taking the very surest ground against Romanists, when we show, that we possess just such a descended p. 85 Ministry, in no degree dependent on communion with their Church, or any other single Church?
— from On the apostolical succession Parochial lectures, second series by William J. (William Josiah) Irons

Whether some of these efforts may be misdirected, in no degree detracts from the value of the principle which seeks the prevention of misery rather than the relief.
— from Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

The female form taking the place of the male is, no doubt, due to the idea of the woman's being supposed to be the more compassionate nature; just as, too often in the Christian Church, the Blessed Mother has, for a like reason, been made to encroach upon the prerogatives of her Divine Son.
— from Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

In a word, man could not do without the mining industry, nor did Divine Providence will that he should.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

I prayed I might.... I nearly did die—with happiness—when I heard your voice over the wire.
— from The Restless Sex by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The speed, according to the new method, is no doubt diminished, but security is much more important than speed, and the new plan is not exclusive of the old when occasions require great effort.
— from The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin

And precisely because it is at the same time both a state and an act, it triumphantly proves to us that the passive does not exclude the active, neither matter nor form, neither the finite nor the infinite; and that consequently the physical dependence to which man is necessarily devoted does not in any way destroy his moral liberty.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

If such moisture is not derived directly from the men's own bodies, it is apparently picked up from the ice sheet by the descending air, and not added to the ice sheet by air from aloft.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

At the adjourned meeting, in November, Dr. Duncan was re-elected, and he consented to serve again, under the most pressing solicitation of the Board and the evident urgency of the case.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby