"Not even angel–wing clams or salps have ever given off such a powerful light.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

What pressure and suffering He endured grew out of His position as the world's [Pg 120] sin bearer; they were never the result of moral uncertainty or spiritual maladjustment.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Montmorency gave a cry of joy—the cry of a stern warrior who sees his enemy given over to his hands—the sort of cry Cromwell might have uttered when the Scots came down the hill—and flew after his prey.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Now that, the General being gone, she had every good of life, with as few drawbacks as possible, she had been rather perplexed to find an anxiety, if not a sorrow.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A few stray facts assumed a certain distinctness in his mind: she had evidently gone off quite of her own accord, and she had appreciated the spirit of his attitude towards her the previous day, and she had encountered on this, the following day, something or somebody which might bring her good luck.
— from March Hares by Harold Frederic

Sunk in a heap on the floor, forgotten by the servants, her eyes gloated on the page written by her ancestor.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

Free will or predestination; God omnipotent, or first of all just and holy; God's word created by Him, or sharing His eternity; God one in this sense, that His being admitted of no plurality of qualities, or possessed of qualities, which in all eternity are inherent in His being; in the world to come only bliss and doom, or also an intermediate state for the neutral.
— from Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by C. (Christiaan) Snouck Hurgronje

She had entirely given over her threatening.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

She sat very still for a long while, and presently she heard Ephraim go out.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Old Selke at the Zoological had been just like a cask, and for more than four months he could never go to bed, but had to be propped up straight in a chair with all the windows wide open, but when he had taken the medicine for four days, it was just as if you squeezed a pig's bladder: haven't you seen how everything goes out of it
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

But sometimes father was more like a friend than a parent, and that faint, unnoted stress was the only sign he ever gave of what he knew about this Inspiration.
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

"She hardly ever goes out, so the concierge said," he thought.
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock