Some cry out against sin even as the mother cries out against her child in her lap, when she calleth it slut and naughty girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing it.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

By means of this idea, which is not false in itself, may he not early acquire a certain aversion to giving way to excessive passions, which he regards as diseases; and do you not think that such a notion, given at the right moment, will produce a more wholesome effect than the most tedious sermon?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our discourse was upon the notes I have lately prepared for Commanders’ Instructions; but concluded that nothing will render them effectual, without an amendment in the choice of them, that they be seamen, and not gentleman above the command of the Admiral, by the greatness of their relations at Court.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"We've done all we can," the big farmer beside them was saying, "the sacks are nearly gone and the men are dead beat.
— from The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

She's a nice girl and there's no sense in giving her any unnecessary pain.
— from Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon

In a region which was essentially continental, considerable variations in the lithological characters of the rocks [210] may be expected, when the strata are traced laterally, but we nevertheless find that the differences are not so great as was formerly supposed to be the case when certain red sandstones lying above recognised Permian strata in the district on the west side of the Pennine Chain towards its northern extremity were also referred to the Permian; these sandstones (the St Bees Sandstones) are now generally admitted to be of Triassic age, and comparison between the rocks on opposite sides of the Pennine Chain is much simplified, as seen below.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

"Scholars are now generally agreed that the Sabbath obligation was not transferred by Christ or his apostles to the first day; that there is not in the Christian scriptures
— from The Christian Sabbath: Is It of Divine Origin? by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

My Kátya is such a nervous girl, as thou knowest….
— from A Reckless Character, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The leaves of this kind are strong and numerous; generally about two feet long or high.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

“All agreed to consider her salon as neutral ground, and to accept at her hands the flag of truce, which she held out to each with so much grace and affability.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 2 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century