What could be less then to afford him praise, The easiest recompence, and pay him thanks, How due!
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompence, and pay him thanks, How due!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Observing that he slightly faltered, and comprehending that in the goodness of his heart he was fearful of giving me some pain by what he had said, I expressed my concurrence with a heartiness that evidently relieved and pleased him greatly.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Many indeed still doubt that marriage [ 29 ] can become this highest form of existence in life, in which the surrender of the ego and the self-seeking of the ego reach a perfect harmony.
— from The Morality of Woman, and Other Essays by Ellen Key

When President Kennedy was being treated in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital, were any pictures or X-rays taken of him there?
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

'Tis she that, of her Brandimart in chase, (If you remember, sir,) through every road And place her lover seeks in anxious wise, Excepting Paris, where the warrior lies.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

This suggestion we acted upon, and when we turned in an hour later the constable, Barrett, was keeping vigil in that lonely field, wondering no doubt the reason why the rector had found him on his beat on the Eye Road and posted him away in that unfrequented spot.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

But as the engineer rounded a point, he suddenly exclaimed; "There!
— from Lost in the Air by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

With which words the Earl rose and presented him with a charter for the lands, signed by Eglinton and himself, and he shook him heartily by the hand, saying, [114] that few in all the kingdom had better earned the guerdon of their service than he had done.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

In Africa, Captain Burton saw, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, a cannibal people, named the Vouabembés, who feed upon carrion, vermin, larvæ, and insects, and carry their sluggishness and brutality to such an extreme as to eat raw and putrid human flesh.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin