Because thou hast, though Thron'd in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition, quitted all to save A World from utter loss, and hast been found By Merit more then Birthright Son of God, Found worthiest to be so by being Good, 310 Farr more then Great or High; because in thee Love hath abounded more then Glory abounds, Therefore thy Humiliation shall exalt With thee thy Manhood also to this Throne; Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt Reigne Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man, Anointed universal King; all Power I give thee, reign for ever, and assume Thy Merits; under thee as Head Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce: 320 All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide In Heaven, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell; When thou attended gloriously from Heav'n Shalt in the Skie appeer, and from thee send The summoning Arch-Angels to proclaime Thy dread Tribunal: forthwith from all Windes The living, and forthwith the cited dead Of all past Ages to the general Doom Shall hast'n, such a peal shall rouse thir sleep.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Nicholas I, though, to be sure, he always hated that life.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That every man felt his condition to be, somehow or other, worse than it might be; that every man considered it incumbent on him to join the rest, towards the making of it better; that every man felt his only hope to be in his allying himself to the comrades by whom he was surrounded; and that in this belief, right or wrong (unhappily wrong then), the whole of that crowd were gravely, deeply, faithfully in earnest; must have been as plain to any one who chose to see what was there, as the bare beams of the roof and the whitened brick walls.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

So much does he revere goodness, and so determined is he that his Pendennis or his Becky Sharp shall be judged at their true value, that he is not content, like Shakespeare, to be simply an artist, to tell an artistic tale and let it speak its own message; he must explain and emphasize the moral significance of his work.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

There is no man in office who must not be sensible that ours is, without the act of any parading minister, the most regular and orderly system perhaps that was ever known; the best secured against all frauds in the collection, and all misapplication in the expenditure of public money.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Thence, by short cuts to him 386 well known, he runs before into another walk, II.10 laying the dust.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Isabel was by no means sure of this, but she abstained from expressing further doubt, for she was disposed in these days to extend a great charity to her cousin.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“Oh, yes,” he said with the brightest superficial eagerness, “you wanted me to tell you something.”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

And if any coach or road-waggon wants to come along, tell 'em they must go round by the back street, and be hanged to 'em....
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

reply’d, That was impossible; and so, without much more Ceremony, he took his Leave of that delightful Company for two or three Days; at the End of which he return’d, with Thoughts much different from those at his first Coming thither, being strongly agitated by his Passion for Peregrina .
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn

Assisted by the policemen and the cook, she had done everything that could be done: cut away the coats and the waistcoat, removed the boots, straightened the limbs, washed the face and neck—especially the neck—which had to be sponged continually, and scattered messengers, including John, over the vicinity in search of medical aid.
— from Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Is there like to be so much of credit in the capture of ten or twenty men by a force of two hundred, 270 that each fellow burns with a desire to be in the front rank?"
— from The Boy Spies with the Regulators The Story of How the Boys Assisted the Carolina Patriots to Drive the British from That State by James Otis

"I understand that to be in the bargain, senorita," he returned, formally.
— from The Curse of Pocahontas by Wenona Gilman

Not very elevating, to be sure, but awfully popular, and calling for more of the same.
— from Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

The MAYOR takes the upper chair behind the bureau, sitting rather higher because of the book than CHANTREY, who takes the lower.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Maggie however, was up, and when Kitty rang the bell she opened the door for her.
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
— from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

THE BOY SCOUTS DOWN IN DIXIE; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

I was passing the scullery window, and Sarah had just thrown a lot of boiling water into a basin in front of them both, so that it made a mist and she didn’t see me.
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt