“Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailor, “and it shall sustain and strengthen me.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Being informed that it was at anchor off Lilybaeum, he mustered up courage to put to sea, and steered for Apollonia.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Although necessity had compelled me to remain indifferent to the attitude of the critics, yet this particular notice gave me much pleasure, and I had invited my unknown critic to come and hear the first production of Tannhauser in Dresden.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And so departed King Mark unto Camelot to King Arthur, and Balin took the way toward King Rience; and as they rode together they met with Merlin disguised, but they knew him not.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The cries died away in groans, and next morning, as soon as Wasilio’s wife could muster up courage to venture abroad, she caused the door of our dwelling to be opened by the public authorities, when Assunta, although dreadfully burnt, was found still breathing; every drawer and closet in the house had been forced open, and the money stolen.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“A great many,” assented Panteley, and he moved up closer to the fire as though he were frightened.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

These observations are true, whether applied to a whole Army or as in the more usual case, to a strong advance-guard.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

If Dr. Gregory confined his remark to romantic expectations of constant love and congenial feelings, he should have recollected, that experience will banish what advice can never make us cease to wish for, when the imagination is kept alive at the expence of reason.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

We were not deemed worthy even to touch them, much less could we muster up courage to ask for any to play with.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Well, I had no doubt that my conscience claimed authority, though it was a more utilitarian conscience than Butler’s: for, through all this search for principles I still adhered for practical purposes to the doctrine I had learnt from Mill,
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Had you, my young friend, been the rejected lover, I do not think your passions would have been more under control than his have been."
— from The Mysterious Wanderer; Vol. II by Sophia Reeve

She is the most unexpected creature!" Two young men silently and heartily concurred.
— from The Palace of Darkened Windows by Mary Hastings Bradley

But generally, for all the purposes of use and influence, I believe he means us carefully to make ourselves, so far as we may, lovely to look at.'
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

This is much to be deplored, inasmuch as it has enabled the most unprincipled characters to practise their impositions upon the unhappy sufferers with the greatest impunity.
— from Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment by John Kent

South Africa South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that is 17th largest in the world; and modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And our ways are very perverse when they make us cling to some of the most absurd fashions from older civilizations, and neglect the wise ones.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various

'Of all persons under the sun' (continued he, calling me by my name)' be sure to set a mark upon confidents: They are of all people the most impertinent.
— from The Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator' by Steele, Richard, Sir

The Saturday Review (July 24, 1869), in reviewing Mr Gladstone’s “Juventus Mundi,” says—“Mr Gladstone is doubtless well aware that there was no portion of his Homeric studies which was received with more surprise, or with more unfavourable comment, than his speculations on what he described as the traditive and the inventive elements in the Homeric mythology.”
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron