Just so the Eternal Eye must see it.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Somewhere in the east: early morning: set off at dawn.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I am come on to give you notice, that papa and mamma are out of spirits this evening, especially mamma; she is thinking so much of poor Richard!
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

They executed every measure slowly, indolently, negligently, and with stubbornness: neither shame nor fear restrained them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I listen for the unthinking masses and pray that every earnest, manly spirit shall help make women free."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The evening even more so.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The decided man, the prompt man, does not wait for favorable circumstances; he does not submit to events; events must submit to him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Moreover, what was it else but reason's light which made Cambyses to fear that the superstition of Egypt could not be well rooted out if the temples wherein it was seated were not taken away; so that offensus superstitionibus AEgyptiorum, Apis cœterorumque Deorum œdes dirui jubet: ad Ammonis quoque nobilissimum templum expugnandum, exercitum mittit , saith Justinus.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

But it was evident that these ecclesiastical exemptions must sometimes come into collision with those civic liberties of which we have spoken.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

Having selected our boats and arranged them on the wharf, we stowed our guns, ammunition-boxes, over-clothes, a few decoys, and such other articles as fancy suggested; and then taking two little tin pails, we put a nice lunch of cold duck, steak, bread, pickles, cake, and fruit in one, and into the other water with a large lump of ice bobbing around in the centre; and thus equipped, each man slid his boat down the inclined wharf, and shipping his oars, pulled for his favorite location.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

They have joined, and we are proud that they have joined, for this is a cause that ennobles every mother's son who fights for it.
— from A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Archibald Alexander

Cold Water —A tumblerful of cold water, taken early every morning, sometimes effectually relieves the bowels; indeed, few people know the value of cold water as an aperient—it is one of the best we possess, and, unlike drug aperients, can never by any possibility do any harm.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

And is it not equally clear that they will, and must, use the majority that keeps them in power to make the eight external Ministers subservient to their will, if their policies cross, without calling them into council?
— from The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Darrell Figgis