Was shee thy God, that her thou didst obey Before his voice, or was shee made thy guide, Superior, or but equal, that to her Thou did’st resigne thy Manhood, and the Place Wherein God set thee above her made of thee, And for thee, whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie: Adornd She was indeed, and lovely to attract Thy Love, not thy Subjection, and her Gifts Were such as under Government
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

So the men were brought to examination; and they that sat upon them, asked them whence they came, whither they went, and what they did there, in such an unusual garb?
— 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

Kent, for instance: It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our condition: Edmund: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

To those who have never wavered in conscience, the predicament of the individual whose mind is less strongly constituted and who trembles in the balance between duty and desire is scarcely appreciable, unless graphically portrayed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Nor,” says Lord Arlington, “when our rules are once set, and upon good judgment declared, no Governor should offer to alter them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He was in the habit of diverting himself with a snake, and upon going to feed it with his own hand, according to custom, he found it devoured by ants: from which he was advised to beware of the fury of the mob.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Bad luck go with the fellow, who unjustly some restores From exile, while some others he had banished from our shores, And some he puts to death; and sits among us gorged with pelf.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“No, that is impossible; but she is a very peculiar, and, I am sorry to be forced to say, an unamiable girl, and is governed by every idle caprice.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

The men simultaneously and unbidden gave three cheers.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

The sacred and youthful branch, the Guardian of the Cause of God, as well as the Universal House of Justice to be universally elected and established, are both under the care and protection of the Abhá Beauty, under the shelter and unerring guidance of the Exalted One (may my life be offered up for them both).
— from The Will And Testament of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

In another part of this work the Chancellor says, [323] — "They have in England certain demons, though I know not whether I should call them demons or figures of a secret and unknown generation, which the French call Neptunes, the English Portunes.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

This demonstration we see around us gives the plainest evidence that there is no disposition to indulge in useless repinings at the results of that great struggle.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

Next morning, however, he had secured an Italian native who spoke and understood German.
— from Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock