Certainly this last is the best course; for should you not convince him with regard to poverty, you must allow him to grieve; but if you remove grief by particular arguments, such as I used yesterday, the evil of poverty is in some manner removed.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet none of these things contented them, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though they had been married several years, no child had come to them.
— from The Sleeping Beauty by C. S. (Charles Seddon) Evans

They saw her lips move as in speech, Yet none cud hear a word, An’ but fer t’grindin’ o’ the wheels, This language might be heard.
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

stless mood but half concealing, The sternness on his gentle brow confessed, 10 Sickness within and miserable feeling: Though obscure pangs made curses of his dreams, And dreaded sleep, each night repelled in vain, Each night was scattered by its own loud screams: Yet never could his heart command, though fain, 15 One deep full wish to be no more in pain.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The hole [Pg 56] was full of leaves and dirt, so you never could have found it.
— from Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox by Thomas C. (Thomas Clark) Hinkle

She has already suffered much disparagement from the policy of Demosthenes: should you now crown him by your votes you will seem to share the same opinion as the men who wish to break the common peace.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

“I am sure you never could have taken it had you known what you were about.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

He could hope for no payment from the Patapsco—certainly not for some years; nor could he raise money even on these hopes, the general opinion being that despite the efforts of John Gorsuch, Rutter, and Harding to punish the guilty and resuscitate the innocent, the bank would finally collapse without a cent being paid the depositors.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

"My soap barrel is getting low; and I have not been able to have Olive Witham come to make soap yet, nor clean house.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens