why, the valley itself, which is as dark as pitch: we also saw there the hobgoblins, satyrs, and dragons of the pit; we heard also in that valley a continual howling and yelling, as of a people under unutterable misery, who there sat bound in affliction and irons; and over that hung the discouraging clouds of confusion; Death also does always spread his wings over it.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The four sons of Cadijah died in their infancy.
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I shall keep my eye on our clever Dr. Bauerstein.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

the gypsy said, in a tone of coaxing deference.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She was an image of sorrow, and her uncle who met her in the hall would have been alarmed, if Celia had not been close to her looking so pretty and composed, that he at once concluded Dorothea's tears to have their origin in her excessive religiousness.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When Anne dressed for it she tossed aside the pearl beads she usually wore and took from her trunk the small box that had come to Green Gables on Christmas day.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Neither the Maori nor the Hindoo of common degree could cook by a fire that a person of higher caste had used, nor could the high Maori or high Hindoo employ fire that had served a man of low grade; if a low-grade Maori or Hindoo drank from a vessel belonging to a high-grade man, the vessel was defiled, and had to be destroyed.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

If the horse is a noble beast, it must be that his nobility and excellence of character develop the opposite qualities among his human intimates.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

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— from Flemington by Violet Jacob

The night grew darker; poor Maggie, worn out, crouched down on the ground; Polly, who had now quite made friends with Cinder, sat by Maggie’s side, and when the poor hungry little girl fell asleep, Polly let her rest her head in her lap.
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

And also for that cause suche abbayes of Chanones, doo nat receyue the name of an abbate, thay doo call thaym maysters?
— from A dialoge or communication of two persons Deuysyd and set forthe in the late[n] tonge, by the noble and famose clarke. Desiderius Erasmus intituled [the] pylgremage of pure deuotyon. Newly tra[n]slatyd into Englishe. by Desiderius Erasmus

By the side of this collection was to be seen a manuscript history of all the schemes for a descent upon that island, particularly that of Comte de Broglie.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

In illustration, let us suppose that a man, placed in the city of New York, cannot but sin; placed in that of Boston, he cannot but be holy, and that the fact whether he is in the one or the other city depends upon the irresistible providence of God.
— from Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan

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He was dressed in the usual long plain great-coat of coarse drab cloth, but he had shoulder-straps of broad gold lace, and his flat muffin cap lying in front of him was similarly ornamented.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

Other chapters discuss: The railroad and national defense; The necessity of the railroad; Regulation.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various