He was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the name of.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now the opening of the cave in the ice was narrow, and it was not easy to pass in without touching one of the Gray Sisters.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

" Jefferson has also thus expressed himself in a letter to Madison: *g "The executive power in our Government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is no estimating the pride I took in this grandeur, or the affection that began to swell and grow in me for those people.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But his abstinence did not extend to pecuniary advantages, either in his military commands, or civil offices; for we have the testimony of some writers, that he took money from the proconsul, who was his predecessor in Spain, and from the Roman allies in that quarter, for the discharge of his debts; and plundered at the point of the sword some towns of the Lusitanians, notwithstanding they attempted no resistance, and opened their gates to him upon his arrival before them.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

—No en toda, porque ese cereal requiere un clima fresco, habiéndose comprobado que toda elevación brusca de temperatura,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Elford-on-Trent, 267 n. Elfred the priest, carries Bede's bones to Durham, xl .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Thus it is not enough to put a man to death for his offences; his children, too, must be deprived of the means of living.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03 by Voltaire

3: There is nothing to prevent some natural effect taking place by angelic power, for which the power of corporeal agents would not suffice.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

They consulted the Lot: the Lot said "No"; and, therefore, they solemnly warned Spangenberg that, in order to avoid creating a false impression, he was "to leave out everything which would not edify the public."
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

"Not exactly the place for a lady."
— from A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe

I disregarded both his calls and his threats, and made my way to the woods as fast as my feeble state would allow; and thinking I might be overhauled by him if I kept the road, I walked through the woods, keeping far enough from the road to avoid detection, and near enough to prevent losing my way.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Even for as trivial a purpose as this, it gave room for suspecting a failure, when it was afterwards found that the original ten categories did not exhaust the possibilities of the case; that other supplementary categories ( post-prædicamenti ) became necessary.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

Late at night, before I went to rest, a person (a preacher) called on me, and begged I would go, on the following Sunday, into a village called the Hyde, near Edgeware, to preach, afternoon and evening; this struck me so powerfully, I knew not how to answer him; and before I could begin my long string of objections; these words came with power: “As thy day is, so shall thy strength be.”
— from The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence by J. (John) Church

The commonwealth attorney has sent us orders not to let any one, except the sister who nurses him, come near Cocoleu,—no one, doctor, not even the physician, a case of urgency, of course, excepted.”
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

Then, indeed, he became a sight to see; and—standing now on one foot and now upon the other, now trying to look round the cab on this side, now on that, and now endeavouring to peep over the top of it, as it went dashing in among the carts and coaches—was from head to heel Newmarket.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

This dispersion of the tracheal fasciculi will not easily take place upon the earth's surface, on account of its lesser degree of aerial polarity, but at a certain height.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken