Look, doth it not go along by the wayside?
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

And he would never go and bid for the mill on purpose to spite her, an innocent woman, who thought it likely enough that she had danced with him in their youth at Squire Darleigh's, for at those big dances she had often and often danced with young men whose names she had forgotten.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

"We have been so busy, and day after day has brought such exciting news, good and bad, that I haven't had time and composure to write in my diary for weeks.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

They did not give a bad light, but it took a great many of them to last me for a few hours.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But the snow on the fields and the hills did not glitter as before.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

For he who posits the supreme good as having no connection with virtue and measures it not by a moral standard but by his own interests—if he should be consistent and not rather at times over-ruled by his better nature, he could value neither friendship nor justice nor generosity; and brave he surely cannot possibly be that counts pain the supreme evil, nor temperate he that holds pleasure to be the supreme good.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each successive morning new gifts are brought, but if we failed to accept those that were brought yesterday and the day before, we become less and less able to turn them to account, until the ability to appreciate and utilize them is exhausted.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Muhimábaw (muhimabaw) na gánì ang baldi, sirhi ang grípu, When the pail is almost full, close the faucet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The new German assault between Montdidier and Noyon has brought little substantial gain at heavy cost.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

“If she had been half a mile to the nor’ard she might have stood through Norton Gut and been safe,” observed Halliburt; “but if she is a stranger there is little chance of her hauling off in time to escape the sands.”
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

And besides, I know quite well that you haven’t the slightest intention of getting {132} broken-hearted about me, and the only thing you mind about it is that I have shown I have not got a broken heart about you.
— from The Freaks of Mayfair by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Victory and prosperity was not given arbitrarily by separate genii, each genius protecting his favourite king, each genius striving against the other on behalf of his favourite.
— from The Water of Life, and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

I am not preaching, nor giving advice, but congratulating you it is certainly not being selfish, when I rejoice at your being thrown by circumstances into a retired life, though it will occasion my seeing less of you; but I have always preferred what was most for your own honour and happiness; and as you taste satisfaction already, it will not diminish, for they are the first moments of passing from busy life to a quiet one that are the most irksome.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

But it gets no better; it will never get any better.”
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

Not personally, only at large; although when Anna restively said no woman should ever give her heart where she could not give a boundless and unshakable trust, his eyes showed a noble misery while he exclaimed: "Oh, but there are women of whom no man can ever deserve that!"
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

"No. Griffin and Benbow held that block of radiolead floating in the air only while Dr. Nordred was alone in the lab.
— from Psichopath by Randall Garrett

Their arms were the Northwest guns, and bows and arrows.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens