Dear Daughter, since thou claim’st me for thy Sire, And my fair Son here showst me, the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in Heav’n, and joys Then sweet, now sad to mention, through dire change Befalln us unforeseen, unthought of, know I come no enemie, but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain, Both him and thee, and all the heav’nly Host Of Spirits that in our just pretenses arm’d Fell with us from on high: from them I go This uncouth errand sole, and one for all My self expose, with lonely steps to tread Th’ unfounded deep, & through the void immense To search with wandring quest a place foretold Should be, and, by concurring signs, ere now Created vast and round, a place of bliss In the Pourlieues of Heav’n, and therein plac’t A race of upstart Creatures, to supply Perhaps our vacant room, though more remov’d, Least Heav’n surcharg’d with potent multitude Might hap to move new broiles: Be this or aught
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Then why the devil—my name is not Bryerson, by the way—why the mischief didn’t the compa—why what in the nation ever became of the appropriation?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

His aim, however, was not enquiry but opposition.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Courage is a quality which does not exist by nature, but which is engendered by a consideration of what is suitable.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

'When my resources ran low, and my rent was unpaid, the landlady used to take advantage of my condition and raise a small sum on me.' All seemed now explained; but Leonora was not yet satisfied.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

, remember this, that worldly gain was not the end and design of the people of New England, but religion.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In the course of the insurrection there were numerous encounters between the rebels and the government troops, most of them being mere skirmishes.
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

The phrase was considered as giving a highly favorable aspect to his political prospects; for, as is likewise the case with the Popedom, nobody ever becomes President without taking a name other than his own.
— from The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He quietly explained to this man that the first offender had not even been punished.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

If she should get another ministry with sense enough to abandon this senseless scheme, the war with us ought to be short, because there is no material cause now existing but impressment; and there our only difference is how to establish a mode of discrimination between our citizens which she does not claim, and hers which it is neither our wish or interest ever to employ.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being poeta and
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

He could go anywhere he wanted and with any one he wanted by the time he was through college, which his parents were working themselves to death to send him through, and it was very probable that several girls in town would be glad to add their grandfathers to his natural endowments before many years were over.
— from Kitty Canary: A Novel by Kate Langley Bosher

There was absolutely no evidence beyond the vague description of the man for the police to work upon, and this case, like the others, with which at first it was not connected, seemed likely to remain among the unsolved mysteries; when by the following curious chain of circumstances, the perpetrator of these cold-blooded crimes was at last brought to justice.
— from Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

The title is now extinct, but the family survives in a younger branch, and still holds this patrimonial estate, though they have long since quitted it as a residence.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne