The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travelling-hat by its ribbon in her hand.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This worthy man, to whom in an 352 ill hour for me you gave me to wife, who calleth himself a merchant and would be thought a man of credit, this fellow, forsooth, who should be more temperate than a monk and chaster than a maid, there be few nights but he goeth fuddling himself about the taverns, foregathering now with this lewd woman and now with that and keeping me waiting for him, on such wise as you find me, half the night and whiles even till morning.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

,” replied the yeoman, “who, or what I am, is little to the present purpose; should I free your master, you will have reason to think me the best friend you have ever had in your lives.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

My wife made great means to be friends, coming to my bedside
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"I'd like so much to be friends," she said earnestly.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

He would, too, much enhance the favour by personally managing this business: for if he restored these boys to their homes, he would provoke the gratitude, not only of their parents, but of the people at large also, by giving a striking instance of the magnanimous policy of Carthage towards her allies.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

to have a prosperous journey, to succeed in a journey, Ro.1.10; met. to be furthered, to prosper, temporally or spiritually, 1 Co. 16.2.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

In divers forms, they flit of own accord, Stirred with a motion everlasting on, And in what mode things be from them create, Now, after such matters, should my verse, meseems, Make clear the nature of the mind and soul, And drive that dread of Acheron without, Headlong, which so confounds our human life Unto its deeps, pouring o'er all that is The black of death, nor leaves not anything To prosper—a liquid and unsullied joy.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

"I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused, and I must and shall see you," he resumed; "if not by fair means, then by foul!
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

If not, so much the better for him to declare himself an enemy of ours.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

When the lords of the council came to consider the City's proposals they found much to their liking, but the clause which restricted the amount of money to be furnished by the City to £15,000, and no more, was "much distasted" by them, seeing that that sum would scarcely suffice to buy up private interests, let alone the work of plantation.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

The guide, another charming young lady, wanted me to be from out of town so I gave her a line.”
— from The Phantom Friend A Judy Bolton Mystery by Margaret Sutton

It is verie much to be feared, least we doo féele hereafter some further péece of mischéefe to light vpon vs suddenlie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

The snow-storms in their territory were much more to be feared than they were here, about the post.
— from Jules of the Great Heart "Free" Trapper and Outlaw in the Hudson Bay Region in the Early Days by Lawrence Mott

The men that marched to Bosworth Field under Harri Tudor, two centuries later, went with the same curious hope and assurance.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Make the boat fast, there’s a good lad.”
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

It hangs in the Capella del Consuelo, over a side altar, dedicated to the Angel de la Guarda , and is one of the many masterpieces of Murillo to be found in Seville.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Doubtless it would be at the greater crises, times of pestilence, drought, famine and war, that his prayers would be most insistent; but it is in the period of savagery that famine is most frequent and drought most to be feared.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

I can assure you, my dear sir, that, intrinsically, there are no more patriotic men to be found in the country than those who claim to be of Hebrew descent, and who served with me in parallel commands or more directly under my instructions.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf