The fact that he had suffered this much now rather operated to arouse a stolid determination to stick it out.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

We must now retrace our way a little.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The names of the passengers are added, as follows: "Mr. Benyon, a London gentleman; Mr. N. Ross, of Troy, near New York; Mr. Conyers, and his brother-in-law, Major Gough, 68th regiment; Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Americans; Madame Gardinier and son, a boy about eight years of age; Col. Prevost; Mr. Dwight, of Boston; Mrs. Mary Pye, of New York; Mis [57] s Powell, daughter of the Honourable William Dummer Powell, Chief-Justice of Upper Canada; Rev. Mr. Hill, Jamaica, coming home by the way of the United States; Professor Fisher, of New Haven, Connecticut; Mr. Gurnee, New York; Mr. Proctor, New York; Mr. Dupont, and five other Frenchmen; Mrs. Mary Brewster; Mr. Hirst, Mr. Morrison, and Stephen Chase."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This unlooseth all that is bound, enlighteneth darkness, mends that is broken, puts life to that which was desperately dying: makes no respect of offences, or of persons.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

O but with mine, compare thou thine own state, And thou shalt find it merits not reproving, Or if it do, not from those lips of thine, That have profaned their scarlet ornaments, And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine, Robbed others’ beds’ revenues of their rents.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Upon my life, master Diego, I must really go myself with Cortes to those rich countries, in order that you may not repent of the bargain you have made!"
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

“For,” says an old historian of New England, “their life is so void of care, and they are so loving also, that they make use of those things they enjoy as common goods, and are therein so compassionate that rather than one should starve through want, they would starve all; thus they pass their time merrily, not regarding our pomp, but are better content with their own, which some men esteem so meanly of.”
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Numa made no regulations of this kind, but, while he put an end to military plundering, raised no objection to other methods of making money, nor did he try to reduce inequalities of fortune, but allowed wealth to increase unchecked, and disregarded the influx of poor men into the city and the increase of poverty there, whereas he ought at the very outset, like Lykurgus, while men's fortunes were still tolerably equal, to have raised some barrier against the encroachments of wealth, and to have restrained the terrible evils which take their rise and origin in it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Prepare yourself, sir, and take care to make no resistance, or it will be the worse for your bottom.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

To be sure, one must not resign oneself to any humanitarian illusions about the history of the origin of an aristocratic society (that is to say, of the preliminary condition for the elevation of the type "man"): the truth is hard.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nelson had several times said to Captain Hardy and Dr. Scott, "The 21st will be our day;" and on the morning of the battle, when the prediction was approaching fulfilment, he again remarked that the 21st of October was the happiest day in the year for his family; but he mentioned no reason other than that just given.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness —how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion —how soon it would ruffle , as it were, its swelling plumage—how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awake its dormant thunders .
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

And first did knightly Nestor of Gerenia make question: "Come, tell me now, renowned Odysseus, great glory of the Achaians, how ye twain took those horses?
— from The Iliad by Homer

Yet, even after that, and when the motor had gone away, and the three C.’s had told him all their adventures and the splendid success of their magic nosegay, Rupert only said: ‘It’s Chance, I tell you.
— from The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Jacky made no resistance; on the contrary, he seemed to have made up his mind to submit at once, and with a good grace, to the will of this strange old creature—to the amazement as well as amusement of his relations.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We must now revitalize or inevitably fall before the young college trained men now running the country."
— from Dreamy Hollow: A Long Island Romance by Sumner Charles Britton

Should a war break out you have how nobody to defend you—look upon me, gentlemen, as your saviour; I will only tax you a little more, and quarter a few more of my needy relations on you, and will then retire to my new office of Treasurer and Secretary, at Buckingham House.'
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

“Yes; but we must not rest our claims on that distinction.
— from Emma by Jane Austen