Still, he remained unappointed, though his intimacy with the minister grew more confidential from day to day.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

"Father, father," said he, running up to him, "I wish you would let Jonas go with us to-morrow."
— from Rollo at Play; Or, Safe Amusements by Jacob Abbott

[Pg 265] And except for the slender hope resting upon that handkerchief, I had nothing to offer in the way of evidence against any person or persons other than the girl I loved.
— from A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells

Lastly, since he remains unconscious that he is making verse at all, it can never occur to him to extract those effects of counterpoint and opposition which I have referred to as the final grace and justification of verse, and, I may add, of blank verse in particular. 4.
— from Essays in the Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lastly, since he remains unconscious that he is making verse at all, it can never occur to him to extract those effects of counterpoint and opposition which I have referred to as the final grace and justification of verse, and, I may add, of blank verse in particular.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

In this respect, it is said, “He rides upon the heaven in thy help” (Deut. xxxiii.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

In proof of this statement, he refers us to Horapollon, in his “Treatise on Hieroglyphics.”
— from Myths of the Rhine by M. Xavier