Surely, with so many Saviors the world cannot, or should not, be lost.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

It rushes across the turnpike road, where there is no gate, no policeman, no signal: nothing but a rough wooden arch, on which is painted ‘ When the bell rings, look out for the Locomotive .’
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Our medical journals are filled with danger signals; new books and magazines, fresh from the press, tell us plainly that our people are fronting a social crisis.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And this skill he will not attain without a great deal of trouble, which a good man ought to undergo, not for the sake of speaking and acting before men, but in order that he may be able to say what is acceptable to God and always to act acceptably to Him as far as in him lies; for there is a saying of wiser men than ourselves, that a man of sense should not try to please his fellow-servants (at least this should not be his first object) but his good and noble masters; and therefore if the way is long and circuitous, marvel not at this, for, where the end is great, there we may take the longer road, but not for lesser ends such as yours.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

2 and 3 represent the Tradesman, as you would see him if your eye were close to the level, or all but on the level of the table; and if your eye were quite on the level of the table (and that is how we see him in Flatland) you would see nothing but a straight line.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

We were walking home from the morning service, for it was a fine frosty day, and as we are so near the church, I had requested the carriage should not be used.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And they are miserly because they have no means of openly acquiring the money which they prize; they will spend that which is another man's on the gratification of their desires, stealing their pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father: they have been schooled not by gentle influences but by force, for they have neglected her who is the true Muse, the companion of reason and philosophy, and have honoured gymnastic more than music.
— from The Republic by Plato

Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1881 , Price One Shilling, contains the First Chapters of a New Novel, entitled " The Comet of a Season ," by Justin McCarthy , M.P., Author of "A History of Our Own Times," "Dear Lady Disdain," &c. Science Notes , by W. Mattieu Williams , F.R.A.S., will also be continued Monthly. ∴ Now ready, the Volume for July to December , 1880, cloth extra, price 8s.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen

Let such courage, such nobleness be forever the possession of the American people!
— from The Camp-life of the Third Regiment by Robert Thomas Kerlin

Had it been Maggie for whom he asked, the matter would have been decided at once, for Maggie was her pet, her pride, the intended bride of Arthur Carrollton; but Theo was a different creature altogether, and though the Conway blood flowing in her veins entitled her to much consideration, she was neither showy nor brilliant, and if she could marry two hundred thousand dollars, even though it were American coin, she would perhaps be doing quite as well as could be expected.
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes

Neither she nor Bob had ever said a word to his aunts on the subject of the two men in gray, arguing that there was no use in making the old ladies nervous.
— from Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil; Or, The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune by Alice B. Emerson

Cast yourself on the mercy of God, pleading guilty, you shall not be condemned, if—4.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

Would it be with her as it had been with Mignon; would she never be reunited in life with her own people?
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; 016:007 neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah by Anonymous

They should never be allowed to collect in cellars, attics, or closets, under the stairs or in the yard.
— from Firebrands by George Moses Davis

I. It may be continuance of the promise in the preceding verse: “Thy teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers, and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee.”
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker