Then said the poor man, "I am a sickly man, as you see; and because death did usually once a day knock at my door, I thought I should never be well at home: so I betook myself to a pilgrim's life, and have travelled hither from the town of Uncertain, where I and my father were born.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

My mouth filled with water; I struggled against being drawn down the abyss.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

CIX (England) ——————- British online-service available by telnet, through PDN services and by direct dial.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Since then, as I have said before, freedom of speech is often painful to the person who is to receive benefit from it, we must imitate the surgeons, who, when they have performed an operation, do not leave the suffering part to pain and smart, but bathe and foment it; so those who do their rebuking daintily run 496 off after paining and smarting, and by different dealing and kind words soothe and mollify them, as statuaries smooth and polish images which have been broken or chipped.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

See, also, Blunderbuzzard “De Derivationibus,” pp. 27 to 5010, Folio, Gothic edit.,
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But it seems queer--ever so queer--to see a boat doing duty as a private carriage.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Greet well thy sire, thy mother greet, O thou whose arms the foe defeat; The household priest, and all the rest Amid the Twice-born chief and best; And Ráma and brave Lakshmaṇ, who Shoot the long shaft with aim so true.” To him the king high honour showed, And store of wealth and gifts bestowed, The choicest elephants to ride, And skins and blankets deftly dyed, A thousand strings of golden beads, And sixteen hundred mettled steeds: And boundless wealth before him piled Gave Kekaya to Kaikeyí's child.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Ere long, several of the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the ship.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Elle me semble assez bien décrite dans ma bio… Comme j'écris sous un pseudonyme d'auteur, ça dépersonnalise un peu.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

How (no doubt with a grim chuckle) he produced the Rules for such case made and provided, whereby it appeared that the challenger must meet five champions in succession, and be declared disgraced if he failed against any one;—which was considerably more than Don Diego had bargained for!
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

See also, "Be Domes Dæge," a poem on the terrors of judgment (ed.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

Its voice, it is true, will be stifled by the majority, but it will not be raised the less energetically for liberty and justice, with the hope of seeing a better day dawn, and, whatever the event, with the conviction of having fulfilled an obligation of conscience not only toward the church, but to the state.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

It did not seem safe, and Barwell Dawson decided to turn back, in the direction of the route they had followed when leaving camp.
— from First at the North Pole; Or, Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer

They piled into a big car and went threading through the heavy morning traffic, under elevated railway tracks, past tall white buildings, through narrow crowded streets, around big double decker busses, and finally rolled to a stop at the wharves.
— from Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr

"Sit right down there, Dorothy Dale," insisted Tavia, pulling her friend's skirt, and bringing Dorothy down beside her rather suddenly.
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose

In time of war he sent a branch drifting down the river as a good omen, and a sign to the people that they might go on with the war, sure of driving the enemy.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner

This should always be done directly after cutting, especially if the goods ravels easily, otherwise it will be impossible to work a neat buttonhole.
— from Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson