People are so unreasonable!
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This is a sovereign friendship of our courteous Lord that He keepeth us so tenderly while we be in sin; and furthermore He toucheth us full privily and sheweth us our sin by the sweet light of mercy and grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

A noble place; inside as well as out, a noble place—a house in which you incontinently lost yourself if ever you were so rash as to attempt to penetrate its mysteries alone; a house in which no one room had any sympathy with another, every chamber running off at a tangent into an inner chamber, and through that down some narrow staircase leading to a door which, in its turn, led back into that very part of the house from which you thought yourself the furthest; a house that could never have been planned by any mortal architect, but must have been the handiwork of that good old builder, Time, who, adding a room one year, and knocking down a room another year, toppling down a chimney coeval with the Plantagenets, and setting up one in the style of the Tudors; shaking down a bit of Saxon wall, allowing a Norman arch to stand here; throwing in a row of high narrow windows in the reign of Queen Anne, and joining on a dining-room after the fashion of the time of Hanoverian George I, to a refectory that had been standing since the Conquest, had contrived, in some eleven centuries, to run up such a mansion as was not elsewhere to be met with throughout the county of Essex.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

An excellent observer [1116] in describing a young man who was determined not to yield to his father's desire, says, "He thrust his hands deep down into his pockets, and set up his shoulders to his ears, which was a good warning that, come right or wrong, this rock should fly from its firm base as soon as Jack would; and that any remonstrance on the subject was purely futile."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

“I will do what you ask, but you cannot imagine how troublesome it is in a convent, for at six o’clock the parlours are shut up and the keys are taken to the abbess’ room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Ah me, Ah me, from hour to hour Love in my soul will wax in power, And spring, upon whose charms I gaze, Whose breath the heat of toil allays, With thoughts of her for whom I strain
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In this frame of mind I followed, as fast as I could, the eager footsteps of the pilgrims, and stood upon the shore of the lake, and swelled, with hat and voice, the frantic hail they sent after the “ship” that was speeding by.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

‘This child!’—he thought—‘Has this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers, struggled with poverty and suffering, upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

For are they not well enough aware that often their women patients are so utterly beyond them that they do not know what to do with them!
— from Medical Women: Two Essays by Sophia Jex-Blake

The commercial people are shutting up their shops with complacent content and a smile for both the day ended and for the morrow, elated by the lively and constant thrills of profits increased, by the growing jingle of the cash-box.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

He grows to manhood, and either digs in the road or plies the pick and shovel underground.
— from Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

In cases where parents are so utterly depraved as to make it entirely hopeless to reform the child at home, they have found it the best course to board them, two or three together, in respectable families; the influences of the family state being held to be essential.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Many remonstrances were presented against sending up these representatives; the charge of paying them was, not unfrequently, felt to be burdensome by the people.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

ALEC Mush, ℞ 178 Mushrooms, B. III , ℞ 121 , 309-14 ; —— Omelette, ℞ 314 Muskrat, ℞ 396 Mussels, ℞ 418 MUSTEIS PETASONEM, ℞ 289 MUSTEOS AFROS, ℞ 295 MUSTUM, fresh, young, new; —— VINUM, must, new wine; —— OLEI, new oil MYRISTICA, nutmeg MYRRHIS ODORATA, myrrh, used for flavoring wine MYRTUS, myrtle berry, often called “pepper” and so used instead of pepper MYRTUS PIMENTA, allspice N NAPKINS, individual, see MAPPA NAPUS, p.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

For this we used reeds, placing a small upright piece in the center of the middle basin, and joining to this a larger reed which ran beneath the board, and was let into the barrel near the bottom.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 by Various

And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

The coal was easy to get; he had one boy "forrit to the pick," with Robert as "drawer," and his prospects seemed good, he thought, as he was busily preparing a shot, ramming in the powder, and "stemming" up the hole.
— from The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

The Brazils had been first discovered by the Portuguese, afterwards seized upon by the Dutch, whom they, however, expelled about the middle of the sixteenth century; that is, about fifty years after its first discovery, and an equal period of time previous to the decline of their trade in India.
— from An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair