If I began to doubt his word while in the tomb, this ridiculous pretence only served to add contempt to unbelief, and from that time I regarded him as a deceiver, and a vile, unscrupulous, hypocritical pretender.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

We can pick our spots then and cross the creek when we're ready."
— from The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

The distance between these ports in a bee line is about five hundred miles; by a circuitous route going around the province of Shan Tung and crossing the Yellow River into the province of Hunan through Anwhui, the distance would be about seven hundred miles.
— from My Life in China and America by Wing Yung

The magnitude of the evil, the certain prospect of so terrible a calamity thus long protracted, would itself tend to counteract the continuance of the measure by the discontent and despair it could not fail to produce in the great body of the people.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"When it comes to the planting of seed there are certain things to remember always.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

In short, they are not a negligible quantity, but hold the balance of power, at least for the present, and can retard or accelerate the progress of Socialism to a considerable though an indefinite extent.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

For on a certain day (about the beginning of the fifth month after I had first come to Pergamus) taking my work to the shop of a bookseller with whom I had dealings, I found there two or three men of learning standing together, conversing of books and parchments and the like; and taking up a parchment one said to a companion that he had seen even such a book as this, so transcribed and adorned, in the library of Philemon of Colossæ.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Towards nine he went out on the pretext of seeing to a cow that had lately calved and was in a weakly state.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.