Instead of going twice a week for this purpose, we determined to give one whole week to getting wood, and then we should have enough to last us half through the summer.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Her father and mother, sore concerned for this that befell her, studied with assiduous tenderness to hearten her and succoured her in as much as might be with physicians and medicines, but it availed nothing, for that, despairing of her love, she had elected to live no longer.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And the cake that the widow gave to the prophet did not cause that she had ever the less in her barrel."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

And I think if that pilot had wanted to borrow fifty pounds for an indefinite period on no security, we should have engaged to lend it to him, among us, before his boat had dropped astern, or (which is the same thing) before every scrap of news in the paper he brought with him had become the common property of all on board.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I should have exuded tears like a wet sponge.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So has ended the long life of a very useful and very blameless man.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Mitágun giyud siyag bantay bísag gikapuy siya, He endured the long hours of the vigil even though he was very tired.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“See him?” echoed the landlord.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Ralph, who, while the attention of the other guests was attracted to the principals in the preceding scene, had eyed them like a wolf, appeared to breathe more freely now his niece was gone; the decanters passing quickly round, he leaned back in his chair, and turned his eyes from speaker to speaker, as they warmed with wine, with looks that seemed to search their hearts, and lay bare, for his distempered sport, every idle thought within them.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She had enough to live on—since the new lord had arranged this in a most generous manner—and she was free from the cares of the kitchen.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

majesty If (for Pope. majesty, (if so Hanmer, ending the lines so ... speak .
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Since the soldiers had eaten their last day's rations, and the only food they had had that morning came from any odds and ends the regiments might have saved, it was imperative to find some supplies.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

As soon as he was gone, she treated with Miss Matson, the milliner, to whom Harleigh had considerately named her as a young person known to Mrs Maple, for a small room in her house during a few days; and then, somewhat revived, she endeavoured, by recollecting the evils which she had escaped, to look forward, with better hopes of alleviation, to those which might yet remain to be encountered.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5) by Fanny Burney

She has embraced the life of joy.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

God wished the world to know when the time for the complete removal of error and for the establishment of His Kingdom would come; and so He enables the last members of His Church to give the Message.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

Some Biological Survey hunters employ this lure by burying at one side of a bobcat runway a small glass jar or bottle ( fig. 4 ) into which has been dropped gauze or cotton batting, saturated with catnip oil.
— from Hints on Bobcat Trapping USDA Leaflet No. 78 by Stanley Paul Young

I am not at all sure that I could spare him, even to Lois.
— from The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

A child, playing in the incredible heat of the sun, saw the dusty giant heaving in the distance and ran to its mother, frightened, and the worn-faced mother came to the porch and shaded her eyes to look.
— from Bull Hunter by Max Brand

Letter from Sir Henry Elliot to Lady Burton, July 12, 1871.
— from The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume II by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins