One desperate look I cast round the sea, and then with a prayer to God that this experience might prove some eclipse of my reason from which my mind would float out bright afresh ere long, I followed the great figure of the captain, but with a step so faltering from weakness and grief, that he, perceiving my condition, took me by the elbow and supported me up the ladder to the cabin under the poop.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

For the resolute seeker after God there is always a victory, which in the end may prove so easy, so complete, as to amaze him.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

"He's ten times worse than ever," Mrs. Powle said exultingly to her husband.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

el medio de la tierra algo arrimada a la cordillera de la mar porque hasta quiuira es tierra llana y alli se començan a ber algunas sierras la tierra es muy poblada segun el principio de ella se bio ser esta tierra muy aparente a la de p457 españa en su manera de yeruas y frutas ay siruelas como las de castilla ubas nueçes moras uallico y abena poleo oregano lino en gran cantidad
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

alij de genere meo multi in Conuentuali ibidem tumulantur ecclesia, multo procliuior sum effectus.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

In the year 1393 the Emperor, Manuel Paleologue, sent Emmanuel Chrysoloras to western Europe to explain the desperate state of old Byzantium and to ask for aid.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon