When these had intermarried, Jehovah said that the fact that the human side in such alliance had been originally vitalised by his breath could not now render it immortal, because ‘he (man) also is flesh,’ i.e. , like the creatures of the nature-gods.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

—But why are they sent to hell if Jesus said they were all to come?
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bisan ug unsáun nákug búnal ang kabáyù, nagpabagung na lang, No matter how much I struck the horse, it just stayed put.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nine times out of ten from mere inanition they fall into every sort of vice; forget that they have duties as well as privileges, think that the slice of the world that has been given to them is entirely at their own pleasure and disposal, spend their fortunes, encumber their estates, bully their wives and their servants, indulge their eldest son till he is just such a piece of unkneaded dough as themselves, kick out their younger sons into the world without a farthing, and break their daughters' hearts by forcing them to marry men they hate.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

One of our limber-chests was upset, the pole being broken by the horses, injuring John Setton, driver, and one horse.
— from Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Theodore Reichardt

And as I didn't think it could do any good to tell of my little visit to him, I just said I didn't come down.
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

“One good thunder storm like we have at home,” Scott thought, “would spill the water over the top of that dam before a fellow had a chance to open the flood gates; but they don’t have them here, it just snows summ
— from Scott Burton on the Range by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

She came no more to Mrs. Lane; and the house in James Street was not open to him.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The king must indemnify them for all this, and who knows, perhaps he may give them the house in Jager Street, the house I am in the habit of calling mine!
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

10 Malone put in a great deal of time, he imagined, just staring at the face of the little old lady on the screen.
— from The Impossibles by Randall Garrett

Helen asked what the trouble was, and Sadie told her in jerky sentences.
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss