It is perhaps sufficient answer to quote the simple fact that Pilgrim's Progress is not exclusively a Protestant study; it appeals to Christians of every name, and to Mohammedans and Buddhists in precisely the same way that it appeals to Christians.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Nam esclop , a policeman. See ESCLOP .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And it behoves me to beware of the third time, for fear he should lay his snares surer; for perhaps he did not expect a poor servant would resist her master so much.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

That is to say, in the one case we judge the form of the object to be purposive, as in the case of a flower, but could not explain any purpose served by it; in the other case we have a definite xviii notion of what it is adapted for.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Tom waited to think it over, and see if there wasn’t nothing else; and pretty soon he says: “Oh, there’s one thing I forgot.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

These women, therefore (just as if they had forgotten their natural estate, and preferred sternness to soft words), offered war rather than kisses, and would rather taste blood than busses, and went about the business of arms more than that of amours.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Nevertheless, if there be two cowards perfectly similar in every respect, and if they be subjected in a perfectly similar way to two terrifying agents, which are themselves perfectly similar, there are few who will not expect a perfect similarity in the running away, even though a thousand years intervene between the original combination and its being repeated.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Diana came to Green Gables the next evening, a pensive, shy young lady, and told Anne the whole story in the dusky seclusion of the east gable.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Chapter VIII.--Of the great advantage she derived from not entirely abandoning prayer so as not to lose her soul; and what an excellent remedy this is in order to win back what one has lost.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

It is better doubtless to believe much unreason and a little truth than to deny for denial’s sake truth and unreason alike, for when we do this we have [8] not even a rush candle to guide our steps, not even a poor sowlth to dance before us on the marsh, and must needs fumble our way into the great emptiness where dwell the misshapen dhouls.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

not a soul on its gloomy pavements, not even a policeman's soul.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I confess I should be greatly disappointed if I believed that the history I have attempted to give of this controversy did not easily and promptly suggest that this definition of our contention fails to take into account some of its most important and controlling features.
— from Presidential Problems by Grover Cleveland

This delicate action, by some incredible process of mental obliquity, was held by those around to be a deliberate insult, if not even a preconcerted signal, of open treachery, and had not a heaven-sent breeze at that moment carried the hat of a very dignified bystander into the upper branches of an opportune tree, and successfully turned aside the attention of the assembly into a most immoderate exhibition of utter loss of gravity, I should undoubtedly have been publicly tortured, if not actually torn to pieces.
— from The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah

It was a mere strip in front of his hut—for we were quartered in camp at this time—and not even a paling separated it from a similar strip in front of my quarters.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

And, following the Law of Pleasure, which finishes us before we are finished with it, he did not experience any particular sense of deprivation in the prospect.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He had been head cashier with a firm in Cannon Street, but had been compelled to resign three years ago and had not earned a penny since.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux