It was sport to have a gale in such weather as this.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In a few minutes Porthos had rejoined his companions, who were already in the boat; but when, after they had all got in, it came to his turn, there was great danger that in putting his huge leg over the edge of the boat he would upset the little vessel.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Why, he had himself wished to take Rogojin by the hand and go in together, he had himself determined to go to him on the morrow and tell him that he had seen her, he had repudiated the demon as he walked to the house, and his heart had been full of joy.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

cheer up, my lads; I’ll shew you land——for when we have tugged through that chapter, the book shall not be opened again this twelve-month.—Huzza!— 116 C H A P. XLII ——F IVE years with a bib under his chin; Four years in travelling from Christ-cross-row to Malachi; A year and a half in learning to write his own name; Seven long years and more τυπιω-ing it, at Greek and Latin; Four years at his probations and his negations —the fine statue still lying in the middle of the marble block,—and nothing done, but his tools sharpened to hew it out!—’Tis a piteous delay!—Was not the great Julius Scaliger within an ace of never getting his tools sharpened at all?——Forty-four years old was he before he could manage his Greek;—and Peter Damianus, lord bishop of Ostia, as all the world knows, could not so much as read, when he was of man’s estate.—And Baldus himself, as eminent as he turned out after, entered upon the law so late in life, that 117 every body imagined he intended to be an advocate in the other world: no wonder, when Eudamidas, the son of Archidamas, heard Xenocrates at seventy-five disputing about wisdom, that he asked gravely,— If the old man be yet disputing and enquiring concerning wisdom,—what time will he have to make use of it?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

All Christians believe that the blessed are the poor and humble, and those who are ill-used by the world; that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven; that they should judge not, lest they be judged; that they should swear not at all; that they should love their neighbour as themselves; that if one take their cloak, they should give him their coat also; that they should take no thought for the morrow; that if they would be perfect, they should sell all that they have and give it to [Pg 77] the poor.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

This being done, to the King’s house, and to observe the neatness and contrivance of the house and gates: it is the most romantique castle that is in the world.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Each of them had a glass in his hand.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Atalanta is not the first or the last maiden whom greed of gold has led to defile the temple of Love; and not maids alone, but men in the race of life, sink from the high and generous ideals of youth to the gambler's code of the Bourse; and in all our Nation's striving is not the Gospel of Work befouled by the Gospel of Pay?
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

She threw her anguished gaze in all directions, but no refuge offered itself, only wide rice-fields, a small irrigating ditch, and some stunted trees; there was not a cliff or even a rock upon which she might dash herself to pieces!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

It has dash and animation enough to reënforce the hymn, and give it popular life, even if the hymn had less earnestness and vigor of its own.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

" He went out of the house and got into a waiting car, and they drove down the mountain.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

A resident of twenty years’ experience said: “In the lowest classes I have sometimes found truth, honesty, and gratitude; in the middle classes, seldom; in the highest, never.”
— from Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking by Thomas Gaskell Allen

the beauty and wisdom and strength, the honour and glory it confers on its possessors, at a moment's notice turning obscurity and infamy into world-wide fame?
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

Allworthy here betook himself to those pleasing slumbers which a heart that hungers after goodness is apt to enjoy when thoroughly satisfied.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Were I to hazard a guess, it would be that they will become a military despotism.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Why, one of those big farmers up there could build that house and give it to the state without hurting himself, while you hardly own a roof over your head."
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

What was worse, as we could rarely get a view of the country, and were perpetually justled from our path by obstacles, it was impossible even to have a guess in what direction we were moving.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ernie told me a great deal about Lady Scilly after they had all gone in.
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt

And if it be correct that we owe the forty-sixth Psalm to these months when the Assyrian came back upon Jerusalem, then we see how the city, that had abandoned God, is yet able to sing when she is pardoned, God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in the midst of troubles .
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 1 (of 2) by George Adam Smith