We poor things Of men must needs endure what fortune brings.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Her mother, now eighty years of age, was completely crushed; the sister Mary was principal of one of the city schools and busy all day, and Miss Anthony felt it her imperative duty to remain beside the invalid, even could she have overcome her grief sufficiently to appear in public.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Before I perceived the coolness of Madam de Luxembourg, I was desirous, that I might not expose myself to it, to execute my old project; but not having the means to that effect, I was obliged to wait for the conclusion of the agreement for ‘Emilius’, and in the time I finished the ‘Social Contract’, and sent it to Rey, fixing the price of the manuscript at a thousand livres (forty-one pounds), which he paid me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Oh! yes, of course, Mouston; nothing else.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

We must not expect to see him tonight.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

And if, to render us capable, our being were reformed and changed (as thou, Plato, sayest, by thy purifications), it ought to be so extreme and total a change, that by physical doctrine it be no more us;— Hector erat tunc cum bello certabat; at ille Tractus ab monio non erat Hector eqao; He Hector was whilst he could fight, but when Dragg’d by Achilles’ steeds, no Hector then; it must be something else that must receive these recompenses:— Quod mutatur... dissolvitur; interit ergo; Trajiciuntur enim partes, atque ordine migrant.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

You say true; but did you meet nobody else in that valley? FAITH.
— 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

She was still on her knees, but Sir Michael made no effort to raise her.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But now I realised suddenly that this girl's beauty brought me no elation.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

In Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (page 163)—the work is endorsed by sixty-three learned divines and Bible scholars—the following {190} occurs: "We must not expect to see the church of Christ existing in its perfection on the earth.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Feeling a desire to compare this formation with the structure of the country west and south of it, extending to the Rocky mountains, and satisfied at the same time that these primary peaks constituted the mineral region of De Soto's most northerly explorations, I determined to extend my explorations south-westwardly.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Jackson, fearing lest they should charge straight into the cabin, sprang for his gun, and was back in the doorway again in a flash, carelessly thrusting aside with his feet the incoming flood of furry, hopping figures, but making no effort to keep it out.
— from The Secret Trails by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

A chaperon should in her turn remember that she must not open a letter, She must not exercise an unwise surveillance.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

Beneath the musky rot of Autumn's leaves, Under the forest's myriad naked eaves, Life woke and rose in gold and green and blue, Robed in the star-light of the twinkling dew.
— from Blooms of the Berry by Madison Julius Cawein

She gave me no encouragement whatever.
— from The Lost Ambassador; Or, The Search For The Missing Delora by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Besides, if something is not done to rouse him, how do I know that he may not end in going back to Mrs. Van Brandt after all?
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins