‘If you are sorrowful, let me know why and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Poor Adams was extremely dejected at this disappointment, nor knew he what further stratagem to try.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

A slight appearance of foam was visible around the mouth, and he breathed painfully, and with extreme difficulty.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at Dobbin; and he bore everything quite patiently, and was entirely dumb and miserable.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Here the listener who was none other than the Scotch student, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow, congratulated in the liveliest fashion with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, having desired his visavis with a polite beck to have the obligingness to pass him a flagon of cordial waters at the same time by a questioning poise of the head (a whole century of polite breeding had not achieved so nice a gesture) to which was united an equivalent but contrary balance of the bottle asked the narrator as plainly as was ever done in words if he might treat him with a cup of it.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In reality, they are representations of a wholly different sort, made out of other elements, according to a different plan, and with equally different ends in view.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

To El Cano was [ 84 ] given a title of nobility and the famous coat-of-arms, showing the sprays of clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and the effigy of the globe with the motto, the proudest and worthiest ever displayed on any adventurer’s shield, “ Hic primus circumdedisti me .”
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The link between us makes me feel proud, and will ever do so.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The source whence the Dutch mainly drew their officers does not certainly appear; for while the English naval historian in 1666 says that most of the captains of their fleet were sons of rich burgomasters, placed there for political reasons by the Grand Pensionary, and without experience, Duquesne, the ablest French admiral of the day, comments in 1676 on the precision and skill of the Dutch captains in terms very disparaging to his own.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Accordingly, said he, his own profounder acuteness had hit on a more delicate way, which was well fitted to be put in practice, and would effectually discover what they desired to know.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The river in Yama's abode is called Pushpodaka, and what each drinks out of it is according to what he deserves to drink, cool water or filth ( ib. 46, 58).[75] In the various descriptions it is not strange to find discordant views even in portions belonging approximately to the same period.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

The ceremony of anointment, which preceded and was entirely distinct from that of coronation, was an occasion of much display.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

These pots are worshipped every day as long [ 360 ] as the wedding ceremonies last, which is usually three days.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

He had entered his prison a wild, excitable, dissipated youth, and he had become a mature brooding man.
— from The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Patience waits meekly with companioned eyes; Or like the speck-cloud, which alone is seen Silver’d within blue space, ling’ring for air On which to sail prophetic voyages; Or as the fountain stone that doth not wear, But suits itself to pressure, and with ease Diverts the dropping crystal; or the wife That sits beside her husband and her love Subliming to another state and life, Off’ring him consolation as a dove,— Her sighs and tears, her heartache and her mind Devout, untired, calm, precious, and resign’d.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Here they set up their props and worked every day.
— from The Haunted Ship by Kate Marion Tucker

Had not the sceptre of England passed, almost without exception, down a line of usurpers, murderers, robbers, and butchers, and was it not a fact that the few kings who had not been knaves had been merely fools?
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

An angel, by his official place and work easily distinguished from those having the trumpets, holds in his hand a "golden censer" that with "much incense" he might render acceptable "the prayers of all saints."
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

I know, of course, the difficulties which face the parents, among which economic difficulties are important, arising from the competitive capitalistic system by which all our lives are entangled.
— from Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Reptile skins if not put in the pickle jar had better be packed in salt after poisoning as when entirely dry they are practically ruined.
— from Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Albert Burton Farnham