For soothly I saw that our Substance is in God.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

As for money, one may conjecture that Royalism furnishes it; which if Royalism do, will not the same be welcome, as money always is to him? 'Sold,' whatever Patriotism thinks, he cannot readily be: the spiritual fire which is in that man; which shining through such confusions is nevertheless Conviction, and makes him strong, and without which he had no strength,—is not buyable nor saleable; in such transference of barter, it would vanish and not be.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Her brother's recommendation was enough to ensure her favour: his judgment could not err, and he had spoken in such terms of Elizabeth, as to leave Georgiana without the power of finding her otherwise than lovely and amiable.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Old Osborne stood in secret terror of his son as a better gentleman than himself; and perhaps my readers may have remarked in their experience of this Vanity Fair of ours, that there is no character which a low-minded man so much mistrusts as that of a gentleman.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In a corner which was still in shadow the one-eyed senior sacristan lay asleep in a big chair.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

THE BOOK OF PICTURES PRESAGING I am like a flag unfurled in space, I scent the oncoming winds and must bend with them, While the things beneath are not yet stirring, While doors close gently and there is silence in the chimneys
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

but Matthew Loyd is well enough qualified for the office; but, at present, you must find room for him in the house.—His incorruptible honesty and indefatigable care will be serviceable in superintending the oeconomy of my farm; tho’ I don’t mean that he shall interfere with Barns, of whom I have no cause to complain.—I am just returned with Baynard, from a second trip to his house, where every thing is regulated to his satisfaction.—He could not, however, review the apartments without tears and lamentation, so that he is not yet in a condition to be left alone; therefore I will not part with him till the spring, when he intends to plunge into the avocations of husbandry, which will at once employ and amuse his attention.—Charles Dennison has promised to stay with him a fortnight, to set him fairly afloat in his improvements; and Jack Wilson will see him from time to time; besides, he has a few friends in the country, whom his new plan of life will not exclude from his society.—In less than a year, I make no doubt, but he will find himself perfectly at ease both in his mind and body, for the one had dangerously affected the other; and I shall enjoy the exquisite pleasure of seeing my friend rescued from misery and contempt.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

'We have never seen him!' "'But when he comes to his box?' "'WE HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM IN HIS BOX.' "'Then sell it.' "'Sell the Opera ghost's box!
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

It received its title from its similarity in shape to one of the vestments of a cardinal.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Though Messrs. Mason and Slidell did not succeed in securing the open assistance of Great Britain, yet it is well known that British sympathy was with the Confederate cause; and so far did this sympathy lead England to violate the law of nations that, against the protests of the United States Minister at the court of St. James, she allowed the war vessels Alabama and Florida built by Messrs. Laird & Co., shipbuilders, Liverpool, England, to put to sea.
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The parks had a greener hue than any we had seen to the north; the town revealed but its higher chimneys and the gable of the kirk, still its smoke told of occupation; the castle frowned as of old, and over all rose Dunchuach.
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Finally, the modern roadside hamlet of Key Street, between Newington and Sittingbourne, is said to owe its name to Caii Stratum , or Caius Street.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

[Illustration: A SCENE IN SICILY Taormina, on the Sicilian coast, thirty one miles southwest of Messina.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

The task now before the Medium is first to secure the fragment of pencil and to hold it while the slate is surreptitiously turned over and the question read, then the slate is turned back again and the answer written.
— from Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert by University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism

Approach to Supreme is sufficient talk of Him, v. 3.14 (49- 1114 ).
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

Slowly it seems to open.
— from The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa

The hurrying pedestrian in Wall-street, or in some of its bisecting avenues of commercial bustle, if he have time to glance over his shoulder, is sure to observe a freshly-painted piece of tin (its brief rhetoric revelling in the pride and pomp of gold leaf alphabetically shaped), denominated by lawyers "a shingle"—setting forth that some sanguine gentleman has then and there established himself as an Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

That the great man of whom his uncle and the dominie always spoke in such terms of admiration should address him so graciously, touched the lad to the core, and from that moment he was ready to yield to Mr. Paterson the same passionate devotion that the Highland clansmen used to hold for their chieftain.
— from Donalblane of Darien by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley