By noon, feeling somewhat strengthened and refreshed, we again renewed our attempt at getting up provisions, Peters and myself going down alternately, and always with more or less success, until sundown.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sufficeth A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Another female, the widow of Thomas, and the real or supposed daughter of Heraclius, was spared and released without a ransom; but the generosity of Caled was the effect of his contempt; and the haughty Saracen insulted, by a message of defiance, the throne of the Cæsars.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In like manner, there are certain acts of gratitude and benevolence that always awaken approval and admiration as suitable and right, without any reference to future tendencies or results.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

I thank you,' said Aunt Rebecca, with a rather dry acknowledgment.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In proteus or discoides , for example, projecting pseudopods are often suddenly stopped and retracted, with a resultant change of an anterior to a posterior end.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer

He possesses, to use the words of an English critic, the power of seizing and retaining with a rare vigour and tenacity, the great doctrinal turning-points in a controversy, while he is able to expose with triumphant dexterity the various subterfuges under which it has been sought to elude them.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Their life, when in the saddle, was a continual rush, for the mail and express matter must go through as quickly as possible, and where no steam and railroads were available recourse was had to horseflesh.
— from Jack of the Pony Express; Or, The Young Rider of the Mountain Trails by Frank V. Webster

Be stone and rule with a rod of iron.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

Mr Rose said,—“I know one Master Ascham, now tutor unto my Lady Elizabeth’s Grace, which hath also learned the Lady Jane Grey, and hath told me how learned and studious a damsel is she; and can speak and read with all readiness not only French, and Spanish, and Italian, but also Latin and Greek: and yet is she only of the age of fourteen years.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt