Besides, it is confidently spoken concerning him, that the King of the place where he is has bestowed upon him already a very rich and pleasant dwelling at court, and that he every day eateth and drinketh and walketh with Him, and receiveth of the smiles and favors of Him that is judge of all there.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

But it is only surmise; there is no evidence that he ever did either of those things.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

He wore a checked shirt, an old green coat with new gilt buttons, a neckerchief of broad red and green stripes, and full blue trousers; he carried, too, a common ash walking-stick, apparently more for show than use, as he flourished it about, with the hooked end downwards, except when he raised it for a few seconds, and throwing himself into a fencing attitude, made a pass or two at the side-scenes, or at any other object, animate or inanimate, that chanced to afford him a pretty good mark at the moment.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And now, shrinking from the cold, he thought that just such a wind had blown in the days of Rurik and in the time of Ivan the Terrible and Peter, and in their time there had been just the same desperate poverty and hunger, the same thatched roofs with holes in them, ignorance, misery, the same desolation around, the same darkness, the same feeling of oppression—all these had existed, did exist, and would exist, and the lapse of a thousand years would make life no better.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slight degree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employed on the side of the prevailing opinion, really does deter people from professing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who profess them.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

And here she’s been for six months in Moscow, where every chance meeting cuts her to the heart, every day expecting an answer.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With the single exception of Townshend, the colleagues whom his jealousy dismissed plunged into an opposition more factious and unprincipled than has ever disgraced English 7-204 ] politics.
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

He was extremely generous and unselfish; and he stuck to the king through his evil days, even sharing his imprisonment in Carisbrooke Castle, where he is thought materially to have assisted in writing the " Eikon Basilike ."
— from The Cathedral Church of Oxford A description of its fabric and a brief history of the Episcopal see by Percy Dearmer

These are the finest that have escaped destruction except those of the Kampen Town Hall, which are even more elaborate.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

Elixir Terpini Hydratis et Diacetylmorphinae (Elix.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

In her heart Lady Emma not only trusted her eldest daughter entirely, but looked up to her in a way which showed her own involuntary consciousness of the superiority in many ways of the girl’s character to her own.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

He feared that he would die during the first month in the tent, for he was having fever up to 102-1/2 and sometimes more every afternoon; but he laid in a store of provisions which with the milk and eggs delivered to him every day enabled him to stay in bed for a week, opening up the flap of the tent in the middle of the day.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

They seemed to agree, at last, that they had evi dence enough, for the jury was instructed to prepare its verdict.
— from The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson