This second source of Men, while yet but few, And while the dread of judgement past remains Fresh in their minds, fearing the Deity, With some regard to what is just and right Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace; Labouring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil; and, from the herd or flock, Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid, With large wine-offerings poured, and sacred feast, Shall spend their days in joy unblamed; and dwell Long time in peace, by families and tribes, Under paternal rule: till one shall rise Of proud ambitious heart; who, not content With fair equality, fraternal state, Will arrogate dominion undeserved Over his brethren, and quite dispossess Concord and law of nature from the earth; Hunting (and men not beasts shall be his game)
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I should be loath to have you suffer for me!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

That morning I purposely arranged that we should be late in entering the schoolroom.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I am a business man—have always been a business man—do not know anything but business—and so you can imagine how like being struck by lightning it was to find myself in a country where written contracts were worthless!—that main security, that sheet- anchor, that absolute necessity, of business.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I have got it by me while I write these words; and I copy it, as follows, for your benefit: “Thirdly, and lastly, I give and bequeath to my niece, Rachel Verinder, daughter and only child of my sister, Julia Verinder, widow—if her mother, the said Julia Verinder, shall be living on the said Rachel Verinder’s next Birthday after my death—the yellow Diamond belonging to me, and known in the East by the name of The Moonstone: subject to this condition, that her mother, the said Julia Verinder, shall be living at the time.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But it is evident from what has been said, that among equals it is neither advantageous nor [1288a] right that one person should be lord over all where there are no established laws, but his will is the law; or where there are; nor is it right that one who is good should have it over those who are good; or one who is not good over those who are not good; nor one who is superior to the rest in worth, except in a particular manner, which shall be described, though indeed it has been already mentioned.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

It no longer seemed strange to them but on the contrary it seemed the only thing that could be done, just as a quarter of an hour before it had not seemed strange to anyone that the wounded should be left behind and the goods carted away but that had seemed the only thing to do.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He felt that the harvest time was come, to garner in the fruits of so much planting and culture, and he was determined that nothing he might do or say should be liable to the reproach of a personal interest.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read:— “Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

I can't conceive of any picture-show equal to that, and all through my year with Shakespeare I shall be looking forward eagerly to my year with the historians.
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

Well, there was Bill Shelley, Billy Lovelady—— Mr. Ball .
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

All night long trumpets blared, shrill native fifes shrieked, drums and wild songs rent the air, and great fires flared up to heaven, making the big clumps of slender bamboos look red.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

This will give her the necessary "lightness of touch," perhaps even the opportunity of making some brilliant little explanation, some casual observation, which may suddenly develop in the child a profound "grammatical insight."
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

We fain would on the housetop be, We fain would hold communion sweet, But looking up, we never heed
— from Heart Songs by Jean Blewett

Most of his scrutiny, however, did not have any connection with new gadgets affixed to the black dashboard fronting the pilot’s seat; but lay in the direction of the combination of wheels for landing on solid ground, also pontoons for use when seeking to drop down on the water of river, lagoon, or even the sea itself.
— from Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol by Ambrose Newcomb

He discovered it in this way: one day, on being suddenly startled by an erratic dash around the room of the brown thrush, which scattered the smaller birds like leaves before the wind, he brought up under the bed on the floor.
— from In Nesting Time by Olive Thorne Miller

Tom was older now, not only in years but in experience, and was it any wonder that his interest in "the kids" should be less keen?
— from Tom Slade at Black Lake by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I was so taken up with the honour that had been conferred on me that evening, that I said but little in answer to the compliments they paid me on my talents for dancing.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán