The day before, Frances Baudoin, absorbed in her own grief, had forgotten to tell him that the two orphans also should be present at this meeting, and had she even thought of it, Dagobert would have prevented her mentioning this circumstance to the young priest.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 by Eugène Sue

At first she locked the door of that room when she entered, thinking of it defiantly as her fortress which must be defended.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Another handsome bird on “the tables of proscription,” is the magpie; but it deserves all the persecution it receives, for though it certainly eats a certain number of snails and insects, it is far more partial to eggs and young birds; and its audacity is so extraordinary, that only its death puts an end to its marauding, while its cunning is such that shooting a magpie is a matter of the greatest difficulty.
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

You know diseases that are within are seen ofttimes by outward and visible signs, yet by these very signs even the outside is defiled also.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The soil removed showed evident traces of its destruction by burning.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Earnest, honest men opposed the building just as sincerely as men now advocate public ownership; both propositions are fallacious, the one long since exploded, the other in due time, as sure to die out as the first.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

If I should ever take orders, I don’t mean to be a mere parson; for if I were like some of them whom I know I should cease to be a man .
— from Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

God says 'every thing on its day,' 'from even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath;' 'the evening and the morning was the first day.'
— from The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition by Joseph Bates