if I should serve you, would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? WAGNER.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

THE STREET OF THE FIRST SHELL "Be of Good Cheer, the Sullen Month will die, And a young Moon requite us by and by: Look how the Old one, meagre, bent, and wan With age and Fast, is fainting from the sky."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

His mind was running upon bears and boars, when, in the process of draining his glass to the bottom, he raised his eyes, and saw, for the first time and with unbounded astonishment, that he was not alone.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Many were limping, but if any one of them happened to fall and thus delay the march he would hear a curse as a soldier ran up brandishing a branch torn from a tree and forced him to rise by striking about in all directions.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Omar has elsewhere a pretty Quatrain about the same Moon— "Be of Good Cheer—the sullen Month will die, And a young Moon requite us by and by: Look how the Old one meagre, bent, and wan With Age and Fast, is fainting from the Sky!"
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

We fell from God by an unbelief of the threatening; he recovers us by a belief of the promise; by unbelief we laid the foundation of God’s dishonor; by faith, therefore, God exalts the glory of his free grace.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Money that is the result of honest labour will, if rightly used, be a blessing to you and yours.
— from Boys: their Work and Influence by Anonymous

Since his youth he had been marching on amidst his dream of fraternity, fighting for an ideal Republic based on truth and justice, and each and every endeavour had led him to a dungeon; he had invariably finished his humanitarian reverie under bolts and bars.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

Mrs. H. R. Underhill, box and bbl. of C. Dover.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 12, December 1879 by Various

It may hence be understood how it was that the three convicts, instead of betraying their chief, were eager to serve him; and as they suspected he was now the owner of the stolen seven hundred and fifty thousand francs, they admired him for his calm resignation, under bolt and bar of the Conciergerie, believing him capable of protecting them all.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He easily broke a way through its wall for the horse, returned and led the animal in, barricaded the opening with debris from the other huts, and made himself as comfortable as he could by means of the cloak and horsecloths rolled up before and behind the saddle.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

At this moment Mrs. Scudder opened the pantry-door and put an end to this mysterious conversation, which had already so affected Miss Prissy that, in the eagerness of her interest, she had rubbed up her cap border and ribbon into rather an elfin and goblin style, as if they had been ruffled up by a breeze from the land of spirits; and she flew around for a few moments in a state of great nervous agitation, upsetting dishes, knocking down plates, and huddling up contrary suggestions as to what ought to be done first, in such impossible relations, that Mrs. Katy Scudder stood in dignified surprise at this strange freak of conduct in the wise woman of the parish.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

They were ragged, unkempt, barearmed and bare-legged, every last one of them with back bent.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

It will get too hard to be rooted up by and by.
— from Brought Home by Hesba Stretton