The Serpent having been adopted as the sign-post of Egyptian and Assyrian doctors—and it may have been something of that kind that was set up by Moses in the wilderness—would naturally [ 353 ] become the symbol of life, and after that it would do duty in any capacity whatever.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Charlotte treated him ill, because Noah did; and Mrs. Sowerberry was his decided enemy, because Mr. Sowerberry was disposed to be his friend; so, between these three on one side, and a glut of funerals on the other, Oliver was not altogether as comfortable as the hungry pig was, when he was shut up, by mistake, in the grain department of a brewery.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

´Twas the brave wench that I feared for; she that stood up before me in the oak wood, and with the look in her eyes that I never saw in a woman before--told me she trusted me.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

I don't aim tuh git shot up by men in the Basin fer makin' passes [106] at you.
— from The Lone Ranger Rides by Fran Striker

Charlotte treated him badly because Noah did; and Mrs. Sowerberry was his decided enemy because Mr. Sowerberry was disposed to be his friend: so, between these three on one side, and a glut of funerals on the other, Oliver was not altogether as comfortable as the hungry pig was, when he was shut up by mistake in the grain department of a brewery.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

My fatigue was very great, and my walking painful to an extreme, when, having come to a place where the gorge was narrowest and where the two sides were like the posts of a giant's stile, where also the fifth ridge of the Jura stood up beyond me in the further valley, a vast shadow, I sat down wearily and drew what not even my exhaustion could render unremarkable.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

It was also stimulated by the gestures that the Soviet Union began making in the direction of livelier East-West trade.
— from East-West Trade Trends Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

[Pg 120] that an afflicted heart derives from the contemplation of a crucified Saviour, with the healing virtue of the brazen serpent set up by Moses in the wilderness.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The Captain, too, sprang up beside me in time to see the flag go fluttering in over the taffrail as it was hauled down.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

The term “subconscious,” used by me in “The Psychology of Suggestion,” means tracts of mental states which may or may not function in the total mental reaction of the individual .
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

Before I had reached the end of the tunnel through the wood and had come out into the open whence I could, now, see the loom of Jervaise Clump swelling up before me in the deep, gray gloom of early dawn, I had decided that my suggestion had been prompted by an intuition of truth.
— from The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford