I had seen them unanimous in demand for the merest trifle—a treat, a holiday, a lesson's remission; they could not, they would not now band to besiege Madame Beck, and insist on a last interview with a Master who had certainly been loved, at least by some—loved as they could love—but, oh!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

to be anxious to Speak to us I derected the Canoes to land.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward: his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"No," said the uncle, "I did not think it was lovely at all.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Without respect of persons God speaketh to us in divers manners.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

The occupation of part of my time in fishing and fowling had frequently tended to preser me from falling into hurtful associations; but through the rising intimations and reproofs of divine grace in my heart, I now began to feel that the manner in which I sometimes amus'd myself with my gun was not without sin; for although I mostly preferr'd going alone, and while waiting in stillness for the coming of the fowl, mind was at times so taken up in divine meditations, that the opportunities were seasons of instruction and comfort to me; yet, on other occasions, when accompanied by some of my acquaintances, and
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“You will, young gentleman;” said the uncle; “I did not expect such a word from you.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Jews with the fifty-bladed penknives shut them up in despair; the men with the pocket-books made pocket-books of them.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

`The whos wel-fare and hele eek god encresse In honour swich, that upward in degree 1360 It growe alwey, so that it never cesse; Right as your herte ay can, my lady free, Devyse, I prey to god
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the fourth place, such laws of probable sequence, though useful in daily life and in the infancy of a science, tend to be displaced by quite different laws as soon as a science is successful.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

[375] At the last Conference (1907) of the Social-Democratic Federation the resolution was moved, "That this Conference reasserts its statement that unemployment is due to the private ownership of land and capital."
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

But since you’ve turned up you’ll have to stick to us; I don’t want to waste time in leading another search party.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

"I've seen that until I dream of it.
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones

Toward evening a courier rushed in with tidings that Mirski's squadron and Stankyevich's also were marching to the hetman's residence, prepared to demand with armed hand their colonels; that there was terrible agitation among them, and that the officers had sent deputations to all the squadrons posted near Kyedani, and farther on to Podlyasye and Zabludovo, with news of the hetman's treason, and with a summons to unite in defence of the country.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

When this Austrian turned up here in Marseilles, as I was sure he would soon turn up, I decided to make an end of it.
— from Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman

field—it shamed the unwilling into decision—it spurred on the inert and inactive to exertion, and armed the doubtful and the timid with resolution.
— from The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms

THE COUNTRY—REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OFFERED—DETECTIVES FLOCK IN FROM ALL QUARTERS—AFTER YEARS OF WANDERING, SAEGER TURNS UP IN DENVER.
— from Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association by D. J.‏ ‎(David J.) Cook