But as she grew prosperous in outward things, Christie found herself burdened with a private cross that tried her very much.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

They say that even grief, which we have already said ought to be avoided as a monstrous and fierce beast, was appointed by nature, not without some good purpose, in order that men should lament when they had committed a fault, well knowing they had exposed themselves to correction, rebuke, and ignominy; for they think that those who can bear ignominy and infamy without pain have acquired a complete impunity for all sorts of crimes; for with them reproach is a stronger check than conscience.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Alas, my fair brother, said Sir Gawaine, perdy I owe of right to worship you an ye were not my brother, for ye have worshipped King Arthur and all his court, for ye have sent him[*5] more worshipful knights this twelvemonth than six the best of the Round Table have done, except Sir Launcelot.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

After-game , n. ‘ Prop. , a second game played in order to reverse or improve the issues of the first; hence, “The scheme which may be laid or the expedients which are practised after the original game has miscarried; methods taken after the first turn of affairs” (Johnson).’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The only person behind the counter at which the liquors were served, was a bewildered servant girl, perfectly ignorant of the business.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Another cause of failure, which relates to their theology, and still greatly prevails, is owing to their not making a proper disquisition about the true object of worship: but amusing themselves with idle, and unprofitable speculations .
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

‘I'll complain to your masters of you, so that for the future you mayn't waste your time on such general propositions, instead of sitting at your books and learning your lessons.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fill a little book with just the information a shopper wants to know; call it “The Ladies’ Shopping Guide,” put it on the market at ten cents, and you can sell millions of them.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

A singular fit of despondency this in one basking in the smiles of Fortune, and who had so steadily enjoyed her favors; for the capricious dame had marked Rufus Heath for a favorite long ago by a significant gift plainly indicative of her partiality.
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade

This is due to the fact that under these circumstances response is apt to begin with an actual reversal of sign, the plant under feebler than a certain critical intensity of stimulus giving positive, instead of the normal negative, response ( fig. 33 , b ).
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Without consulting his ordinary advisers, his majesty ordered the minister of the interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia, containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the governor-general of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

He knew nothing of her oath to her father, and, of course, had never heard of the sad history of this young, sensitive girl placed in one terrible moment between her dead brother and her demented father.
— from I Will Repay by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

They have awful times when there ain’t enough places for ’em to sleep, and six or seven get put in one room.
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

In cases of this kind the cost of the canal or pipe line may be the largest item in the power development, and it may be an important question whether this cost should be reduced or avoided by the erection of several [74] small generating plants instead of one large one.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

The Song of the Seven Greatest Pleasures is original, but extremely coarse.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld