Capitan Tiago hoped that the old woman would breathe her last almost any day, or that she would lose five or six of her lawsuits, so that he might be alone in serving God; but unfortunately the best lawyers of the Real Audiencia looked after her interests, and as to her health, there was no part of her that could be attacked by sickness; she seemed to be a steel wire, no [ 46 ] doubt for the edification of souls, and she hung on in this vale of tears with the tenacity of a boil on the skin.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

He dedicated the prose version of his work in praise of virginity ( v. V, 18 ) to her and others of the sisterhood, and speaks highly of their scholarly attainments.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He lifted Maggie as he spoke, and set her on the donkey.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Any slight attention shown her on one day was demanded on the next at the corresponding hour.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Years will not efface from my memory the sight of that old man at midnight, when all around was quiet, and he thought himself unobserved, taking off his shoes and seating himself on the floor, imploring the Lord in heartfelt sincerity, in His mercy to return to Jerusalem and reign there as He had prophesied.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In the "Ancient Charges at the Constitution of a Lodge," formerly contained in a MS. of the Lodge of Antiquity in London, and whose date is not later than 1688, 81 it is directed "that every Mason receive and cherish strange fellows when they come over the country, and set them on work, if they will work as the manner is; that is to say, if the Mason have any mould stone in his place, he shall give him a mould stone, and set him on work; and if he have none, the Mason shall refresh him with money unto the next lodge."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He also introduced a cloaked and masked melodramatic miscreant, put him on a salary and set him on the midnight track of the Duke with a poisoned dagger.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

From some cause or other the grand old Stars and Stripes had on this day been raised on a pole or staff near by, and pretty soon these half-tipsy fellows took offense at the defiant colors, and swore they would tear it down.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

'I will that,' I sez, 'tho' tay is not my divarsion.' "''Twud be better for you if ut were,' sez ould Mother Shadd, an' she had ought to know, for Shadd, in the ind av his service, dhrank bung-full each night.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

Free Will, as it is called, has always been subject to the supremacy of a higher Power; with unredeemed sinners to the power of the devil; with the redeemed, to the saving, sanctifying, and sheltering Hand of God.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

He was appointed general by the Cnossians, and having finished the war speedily and successfully, he obtained the highest honours.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

From Gondokoro to this spot I had not seen a single head of game, but the immediate neighbourhood of Wakkala was literally trodden down by the feet of elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, rhinoceros, and varieties of large antelopes.
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

He wore a calico shirt, such as he had in the Black Hawk war; coarse brogans, tan color; blue yarn socks and straw hat, old style, and without a band."
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

He went to another gate, and there he beheld the same sacred sign; and so he observed it over each gate of the city.
— from Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I had an uneasy suspicion that perhaps she knew as little about Semyonov as she had once known about Trenchard.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole