Amen.' 317. 'Now as Satan laboured by reproaches and slanders, to make me vile among my countrymen, that if possible, my preaching might be made of none effect, so there was added hereto a long and tedious imprisonment, that thereby I might be frighted from my service for Christ, and the world terrified, and made afraid to hear me preach, of which I shall in the next place give you a brief account.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

And still the men of no experience shake their heads.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

Here, Isabel found members of nearly every set the city had ever possessed: Mrs. Trennahan, like herself of the old Spanish stock, and her New York husband; Anne Montgomery and two or three others of the second régime; Catalina Shore, with her beautiful half Indian face and English husband; these few with a repose of manner that looked old-fashioned against the lightly poised figures and incessant chatter of the younger girls.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Yung Wing, picked up by a missionary in the streets of Canton, converted by the faithfulness of one of the mothers of New England, sent to Yale College, where he stood among the first in his class, especially in English composition, returning to his own land to reach one of the highest places in the government, and now leading one of the greatest educational enterprises in the world, and Jee Gam as a disciple and a preacher, are but illustrations of what this soil, found among the common ranks of the Chinese, is capable of producing.
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 11, November 1880 by Various

No sooner do we get into camp than we turn tail and make off, never even stopping to taste our soup.”
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

The automobile industry, mining, electrical work, manufacturing of nearly every sort, the professions, even retailing, have called to them, and not in vain.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford

This discovery like many other notable enterprises seemed to lead to nothing.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

Upon the dense masses of natives every shot told, yet having only one rifle for each front the fire was not sufficiently extended to keep the advancing enemy at bay.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Having given the proper length to the cord, it proceeds to weave its elegant bag, placing itself in the centre and spinning rings of silk at regular intervals, connecting them at the same time by means of cross threads; so that the whole, when finished, forms a loose web, with quadrangular meshes of nearly equal size throughout.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates