To the former he appropriates the body; to the latter, the soul: the sword of justice is in the hands of the magistrate: the more formidable weapon of excommunication is intrusted to the clergy; and in the exercise of their divine commission a zealous son will not spare his offending father: the successor of St. Peter may lawfully chastise the kings of the earth.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

They claim to have heard, seen or felt so and so, and they have not seen, heard, or felt it at all, or quite differently.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

We did not see him, only found his card when we came home at four.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

7. Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

The moon, which was partially obscured by heavy clouds, now and then lit up the muskets of the sentinels, or silvered the walls, the roofs, and the spires of the town that Charles I. had just surrendered to the parliamentary troops, whilst Oxford and Newark still held out for him in the hopes of coming to some arrangement.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

She had been so wearied out, before that, by the convulsions, that she never stirred hand or foot, or spoke a word to anybody.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Now,” said he, “our friends can come back when they like.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

And not six hours out from St. Louis!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Jane trembled under this irony; she felt that Henry was not accessible on this side, and she felt also, that he was now making her atone for the haughty " I will not ," she had once flung at him.
— from A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner

I did not shift hand or foot on the controlling mechanism of the car.
— from The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

And if Alexander had done by his counsel, truly he had not slain his own friend in drunkenness.
— from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

I had one general next to me at table, the famous General Changarnier, who my other neighbor said had one foot in the grave and the other dans le plat .
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

He knew the door was opening, but he could not stir hand or foot.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

No sooner had our friends seated themselves at the tea-table than— Quizzle began: I see, Governor Wiseman, that the races have just come off in England.
— from Around the Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Tumbling off his horse Nat stretched himself out flat and fairly wallowed in the water.
— from The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras by John Henry Goldfrap

The fowler is also an expert cragsman and whether he creeps along the narrow shelf hundreds of feet above the sea and works his way from point to point on the overhanging cliffs, or is suspended like a pendulum on a rope four to five hundred feet, he is cool, collected, skillful, and always successful.
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

But he could nor stir hand or foot; and presently there came into his mind a great blackness of anger, so that he seemed to be in the very grip of the evil one; and he knew in his heart that if he had been unbound, he would have slain one or more of them; for his heart beat thick, and there came a strange redness into his sight, and he gnashed his teeth for rage; at which they mocked him the more.
— from The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

She could not stir hand or foot.
— from Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim