no pudiera conservarse sino breves instantes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—No power can sustain itself when it is represented by mere humbugs: the Catholic Church may possess ever so many "worldly" sources of strength, but its true might is comprised in those still numberless priestly natures who make their lives stern and strenuous and whose looks and emaciated bodies are eloquent of night vigils, fasts, ardent prayer, perhaps even of whip lashes: these things make men tremble and cause them anxiety: what, if it be really imperative to live thus?
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now, pray, Caddy," said Mrs. Jellyby, for Caddy was kissing her, "don't delay me in my work, but let me clear off this heavy batch of papers before the afternoon post comes in!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But no! People can speak of Utopia much more easily than of the next day's duty; and yet when that duty is all done by others, who so ready to cry, "Fie, for shame!"' 'And all this time I don't see what you are talking about.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Thou my Shade Inseparable must with mee along: 250 For Death from Sin no power can separate.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

An inquisition into every man's private circumstances, and an inquisition which, in order to accommodate the tax to them, watched over all the fluctuations of his fortune, would be a source of such continual and endless vexation as no person could support.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[6174] For a disease of the soul, if concealed, tortures and overturns it, and by no physic can sooner be removed than by a discreet man's comfortable speeches.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

surrendering &c. v.; submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant &c. (soft) 324; undefended.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

[5180] Nil metuunt jurare, nihil promittere curant: Sed simul accupidae mentis satiata libido est, Dicta nihil metuere, nihil perjuria curant; Oaths, vows, promises, are much protested; But when their mind and lust is satisfied, Oaths, vows, promises, are quite neglected; though he solemnly swear by the genius of Caesar, by Venus' shrine, Hymen's deity, by Jupiter, and all the other gods, give no credit to his words.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

President McKinley appointed as the National Peace Commission, Secretary of State Wm.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

I put it to you, my lords, in all humility, do you ever get up in your places, not in the House of Peers, but in another House, and point out to the rulers of the country that no personal consideration should ever interfere with their doing the right thing at the right moment?
— from Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant

No plants containing saponin have been found among apetalous groups.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

He, still more aged, feels the shocks, From which no power can save, And, partner once of Tiney's box, Must soon partake his grave.
— from Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

As I have not yet cut logs from more than one-fifth of the tract, I intend to work off the timber on the other four thousand acres at my leisure, and no power can stop me now I have the government receipt to show it's paid for.'"
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Defoe did it more; Smollett more still; and since the great war there had been naval and military novels in abundance, as well as novels political, clerical, sporting, and
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

The application of this common metre to narrative purposes can scarcely be regarded as a recent innovation, for English and German poems frequently exhibit verses and half-verses of very similar construction.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Neminem puniunt capitali sententia, nisi deprehensus fuerit in facto, vel confessus.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt