And although God gave no direction for the lions that adorned his throne, yet does not Solomon seem therein to have broken any law of Moses; for although the Pharisees and latter Rabbins have extended the second commandment, to forbid the very making of any image, though without any intention to have it worshipped, yet do not I suppose that Solomon so understood it, nor that it ought to be so understood.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Her intense interest in Fauntleroy must have buried all remembrance of "Frost Fairies," and when, more than three years later, she had acquired a fuller knowledge and use of language, and was told of Jack Frost and his work, the seed so long buried sprang up into new thoughts and fancies.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

he cried, starting up; “I never thought of that.”
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In February, Vane sailed from Barnacko , in order for a Cruize; but some Days after he was out, a violent Turnado overtook him, which separated him from his Consort, and after two Days Distress, threw his Sloop upon a small uninhabited Island, near the Bay of Honduras , where she was staved to Pieces, and most of her Men drowned: Vane himself was saved, but reduced to great Streights, for want of Necessaries, having no Opportunity to get any Thing from the Wreck.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

It is clear from what has been said that the Vedic Aryans were split up into numerous tribes, which, though conscious of their unity in race, language, and religion, had no political cohesion.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

And I told you not to eat of the fruit thereof, nor to taste of it, nor yet to sit under it, nor to yield to it.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

If it will satisfy you, I will receive the sacrament upon it never to see his face again.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I knew the church was very large, but I could not fully appreciate its great size until I noticed that the men standing far down by the altar looked like boys, and seemed to glide, rather than walk.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Indeed, for all Chichikov’s storming and raging as he dubbed the fellows robbers and extortioners and thieves, he could make no impression upon the pair, since, true to their character, they declined to abate their prices, and, even when they had begun their work, spent upon it, not two hours, but five and a half.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I wish I could affirm that by her gentle dignity and serene self-control she awed the company into silence, or that there was a holy dignity about her that held them spellbound; but such, unhappily, is not the case.
— from Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

First, on account of its enjoying liberty, it is so much withdrawn from the field of action; then we have, just as in 1848, a whole world of courtiers, of ministerial agents, of journalists, and even of clandestine-press-writers, spreading everywhere that the King will draw the sword one of these days, that France and England will cause the revolution to spring up in Naples, that you will quarrel with Austria about the Principalities, that a better opportunity will come, must come, if only we have patience for one month, for two months, for two weeks.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

Floating like a golden dream; Ginger from the far Bermudas, Dishes of Italian pream; And a princely apple-dumpling, Which my own fair fingers wrought, Shall unfold its nectared treasures To thy lips all smoking hot.
— from The Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870 by Martin, Theodore, Sir

"The second ring," she said unconstrainedly, "is not the sign of a second marriage.
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

"But, uncle, God did not make women intending them not to marry; otherwise they ought all to stay unmarried; if not, they ought all to marry.
— from The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac

I sat outside thus, thinking of these and many other subjects, until I noticed that the aurora had faded clean away, that the sky in the north-east was crimson, and that ere many minutes another day would have dawned.
— from A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper

Don't you never go trying of it, sur, you'd be swallowed up in no time.
— from Paul the Courageous by Mabel Quiller-Couch

“I say, used it not to be grand?
— from Glyn Severn's Schooldays by George Manville Fenn