The brethren shall approve it lawful, doubt not. Where shall it be done?
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

They found the forest very thick on this side, and it looked dark and gloomy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

“I have an incessant restless, distressing longing to see him, and the sight of him causes me intense suffering, as I look down from my window and watch him for hours removing and carting the horse manure, saying to myself: 'That is my son.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And if ye will know the letters of Persians and what names they have, they be such as I last devised you, but not in sounding of their words.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It belongs to all time: and therefore, instead of attacking special abuses, it lays down universal principles which shall undermine the evil.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

At school, as in life, doing nothing, but decidedly somebody—respected by small boys, petted by big boys—an authority with all.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Soon ez she got ’mos’ ’roun’ de curve, Marse Chan he followed her, keepin’ under de trees so ez not to be seen, an’ I led de hosses on down de road behine ’im. He kep’ ’long behine her tell she wuz safe in de house, an’ den he come an’ got on he hoss, an’ we all come home.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various

While I pondered with my selfe all these things, a great care [came] to my remembrance, touching the death, which the theeves provised for me and the maiden, and still as I looked downe to my belly, I thought of my poore gentlewoman that should be closed within me.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

I had Soon as I landed despatched Shabono to the Minetarras inviting the Chiefs to visit us, & Drewyer down to the lower Village of the Mandans to ask Mr. Jessomme to Come and enterpret for us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark