Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

But in their theological aspects [ 232 ] the Dove and the Serpent blend; they are at once related and separated in Christ’s words, ‘Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves;’ but in the office of the Holy Ghost as representing a divine Intelligence, and its consequent evolution as executor of divine judgments, it fulfils in Christendom much the same part as the Serpent in the more primitive mythologies.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"That was when you never ought to have asked for the security, George, and when you never ought to have got it, all things considered.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“To be sure; rather than hanging about and dying of hunger, you ought to have gone to the farm long ago.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Bishop, seeing this, took the liberty of telling his guest that this was the best part.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Polus, I say to you, I have just acquired rare power, and become a tyrant; for if I think that any of these men whom you see ought to be put to death, the man whom I have a mind to kill is as good as dead; and if I am disposed to break his head or tear his garment, he will have his head broken or his garment torn in an instant.
— from Gorgias by Plato

ungestroden not subject to confiscation , LL 12[4,1]. ungesundlīce excessively, exceedingly , GD 15 2 . ungeswēge inharmonious, dissonant, discordant, out of tune, harsh , Gl .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“Where,” said Diogenes, “is the master of the house going?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It was from his narratives that the same Boccace collected the materials for his treatise on the genealogy of the heathen gods, a work, in that age, of stupendous erudition, and which he ostentatiously sprinkled with Greek characters and passages, to excite the wonder and applause of his more ignorant readers.
— 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

With a politeness to which I have been sometime very little used, he apologized for returning; and then inquired after the health of Mrs. Mirvan, and the rest of the Howard Grove family.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Some agitations naturally attendant on an infant reign have prevailed in the Empire of Brazil, which have had the usual effect upon commercial operations, and while they suspended the consideration of claims created on similar occasions, they have given rise to new complaints on the part of our citizens.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

She had not seen him; but she had heard so much of him from her brother and others, that her girlish curiosity was aroused.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

A bishop's ring is emblematic of the gifts of the Holy Ghost: and formerly bishops wore their ring on the forefinger of the right hand.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

These legislative chambers in most cases resented the interference of the home Government when it attempted to introduce new rules for the treatment of negro slaves, and the whole plantation interest rallied in support of the great principle that every owner of slaves had an absolute right to deal with them according to his own will and pleasure.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

When a person sinned against the Father or the Word (the Son), he could find a door of forgiveness through the baptizing processes spiritual or elementary, of the Holy Ghost.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

So by this anointing, the tabernacle, with all that it contained, was "sanctified;" that is, consecrated that so the use of these might be made, through the power of the Holy Ghost, a means of grace and blessing to Israel.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

Also he bade his comrades have a care of his father and his son, and of the household Gods, and girded him again with arms, and so passed into the city.
— from Stories from Virgil by Alfred John Church

The fact was that not one of them had guessed correctly at his character.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

The litter of knives, krises, cutlasses and firearms told the story; told that some of the Malays had boarded the Silver Fleece and that none of these had got away.
— from Cursed by George Allan England