He cannot stand if mercy doth not compass him round about, nor go unless mercy follows him.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

"They are a long way from us yet, father; let us hope something may happen for our relief, and not give up till we are taken."
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

One day, when they were all sitting in the drawing-room, some eight weeks after the Bellamys had left, and Mildred was letting her mind run on such thoughts as these, Arthur, who had been reading a novel, got up and opened the folding-doors at the end of the room which separated it from the second drawing-room, and also the further doors between that room and the dining-room.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Self-setting piston rings are now generally used.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

Julia had just risen from the piano: we had both been touched with a deeper sense of the thousand harmonies in nature, by listening to those of Rossini; and now, gazing upon some transparent, fleecy, white clouds that were slowly pressing forward in the path of the moonlight, as if in duteous attendance upon some maiden queen, our mutual minds were busied in framing pictures from the fine yet fantastic forms that glowed, gathering on our gaze.
— from Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

If its highest aim be to reveal to the human consciousness the highest interest of the mind, it is evident that the substance or contents of the representations are not given up to the control of a wild and irregular imagination.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

Truth, equality, cold impartiality — the Net of Heaven lets no rebellion against Nature go unpunished.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima