Now, most, certainly a nation or sect professing a religion so easily changed, and possessing a character so fickle, or so irrepressible as to yield on every slight occasion, and embrace every opportunity to imbibe new religious ideas and doctrines, would easily, if not naturally, slide into the adoption of the religious system then promulgated in Alexandria under the name of Budhism, and afterward remodeled or transformed, and called Christianity. 17.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He became member of Parliament, and ran such extravagant courses as does Barry Lyndon, treated his wife with similar barbarity, abducted her when she had escaped from him, and then, after being divorced, found his way to a debtors’ prison.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Allan heard his child crying as in pain, and rage swept every caution to the winds.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

A puzzled and rather serious expression came over the faces of several of those at breakfast.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Ralph Victor

On the seats of that amphitheatre the pastor beheld arrayed the dark legions of doubt, his gloomy ideas, his vicious [Pg 84] syllogisms in argument; he called up the various philosophical and religious sects, ever contentious, and all embodied in the shape of a fleshless system, as lean as the figure of Time as imagined by man—the old mower who with one hand raises the scythe, and in the other carries a meagre world, the world of human life.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

The men who seemingly might have mastered the situation, and brought it to a peaceful and right solution, either could not or would not do it.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

"Ah, you know the old proverb, 'a rolling stone,' et cetera.
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight