She was in a very feeble and exhausted condition when the bank in which her brother Henry was a partner broke, and he not only lost all that he possessed, but most of his relations suffered severely also.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Unfortunately he did not advise me of his route so that I am in complete ignorance of his whereabouts; and I venture to ask if you may have seen or heard of a Highland costume similar to your own having been seen anywhere in the neighbourhood in which I am told you have recently purchased the estate which you temporarily occupied.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

His recovery was not quite so rapid as he had expected it to be; he was not able to mount his pony till a fortnight after the date of our reconciliation; and the first use he made of his returning strength was to ride over by night to Wildfell Hall, to see his sister.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

3. 'There are three principles of conduct which the man of high rank should consider specially important:— that in his deportment and manner he keep from violence and heedlessness; that in regulating his countenance he keep near to sincerity; and that in his words and tones he keep far from lowness and impropriety.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

At home I found a letter from Mr. Creed of the 15th of July last, that tells me that my Lord is rid of his pain (which was wind got into the muscles of his right side) and his feaver, and is now in hopes to go aboard in a day or two, which do give me mighty great comfort.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

—During barbarous ages, when pessimistic judgments held sway over men and the world, the individual, in the consciousness of his full power, always endeavoured to act in conformity with such judgments, that is to say, he put his ideas into action by means of hunting, robbery, surprise attacks, brutality, and murder: including the weaker forms of such acts, as far as they are tolerated within the community.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She my secret wish Divin'd; and with such gladness, that God's love Seem'd from her visage shining, thus began: "Here is the goal, whence motion on his race Starts; motionless the centre, and the rest All mov'd around.
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3 by Dante Alighieri

It would be all right for awhile, then I would revolt against the noise, the dirt and smoke, the miles and miles of houses rubbing shoulders against each other, and all the thousands of [Pg 144] people scuttling back and forth, like—well, it seems sometimes almost as aimless as the scurrying of ants when you step on their hill.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

"I was naturally pleased at this cordial reception, but I was surprised when, after looking me over, he remarked: 'Say, you are a great man.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

The beautiful Rachel Seaton, the innocent Sarah Day, the religious Sarah Briscow, had successively paled the image of the preceding lady in the mirror of his rather susceptible heart, and at the end he became the fond husband of Miss Annesley, daughter of a nonconformist divine.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

She felt proud of him that he could induce the thought, then, in a moment of hardly realized sex jealousy, wished that it might be discovered by some woman.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I procured further information about the matter from members of his household; I learned more of his ruinous state, and saw that the poor man's fault was not so grave, because the miserable woman had had recourse to enchantments, by giving him a little image made of copper, which she had begged him to wear for love of her around his neck; and this no one had influence enough to persuade him to throw away.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

"Mr. Owen has returned, Sir Augustus," he said, "and asks to see you immediately."
— from The Angel by Guy Thorne

378 Phrases like this are found in Massinger; thus in The Maid of Honour , Roberto says of the wedding of Bertoldo and Aurelia: And rest assur'd that, this great work despatch'd, You shall have audience.
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank

At home I found a letter from Mr. Creed of the 15th of July last, that tells me that my Lord is rid of his pain (which was wind got into the muscles of his right side) and his feaver, and is now in hopes to go aboard in a day or two, which do give me mighty great comfort. 15th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. by Samuel Pepys