“We were all that,” replied Ben, knocking the ashes out of his pipe viciously as if he were giving the slave captain a rap on the head;—“and as we stood grouped around the deck amidships close by the engine-room hatch, fixing on our cutlasses and getting ready for the scrimmage, should luck enable us to have one, I don’t know what we said we wouldn’t do to the impudent beggars when we got aboard!
— from The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Now that the forty days had really begun, Major Belwether became restless for the flesh-pots of the south, although Lenten duties sat lightly enough upon the house of Belwether.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Nina, whose hand was still in Vaughan's arm, turned white, and flashed a quick, upward look at him; then, with a glance at Eusebius, as fiery as the eternal wrath that that dear divine was accustomed to deal out so largely to other people, she led Ernest up to her father, who being providentially somewhat deaf, had not heard this by-play, and said, to her cousin's horror, "Papa, dear, Mr. Vaughan wants you to dine with him at Tortoni's to-night, to meet M. de Vendanges.
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

The soul looks ever unto the hills whence cometh its help.
— from A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

The very body of the crucified saint lies enshrined under the high altar, in a sarcophagus brought from the catacomb near S. Sebastiano.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen