XXV Tempestuous fortune hath spent all her spight, And thrilling sorrow throwne his utmost dart; Thy sad tongue cannot tell more heavy plight, 215 Then that I feele, and harbour in mine hart: Who hath endur'd the whole, can beare each part.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

At dinner grandfather talked to Jelinek more than he usually did to strangers.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

His writings reveal him as the strangest character, fantastic, and full of a naive vanity, which, even at the time he was translating the genealogy of Gargantua—surely well calculated to cure any pondering on his own—caused him to trace his unbroken descent from Adam, and to state that his family name was derived from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed Ourochartos, that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

This Ship prov’d to be a French Pyrate of fourteen Guns and sixty four Hands, half French , half Negroes; the Captain’s Name was La Bouse ; he expected no less than a rich Prize, which made him so eager in the Chace; but when he came near enough to see their Guns, and the Number of their Hands upon Deck, he began to think he should catch a Tartar , and supposed her to be a small English Man of War; however, since there was no escaping, he resolved to do a bold and desperate Action, which was to board Davis .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

He had so inordinate a capacity for being pleased as to have utterly disqualified him for the post of critic in any of our monthly Reviews.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

“You know, Kirillov, you mustn’t go on staying up every night.” Kirillov came out of his reverie and, strange to say, spoke far more coherently than he usually did; it was clear that he had formulated it long ago and perhaps written it down.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So, painfully with rakes They grub the soil, aye, with their very nails Dig in the corn-seeds, and with strained neck O'er the high uplands drag the creaking wains.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

So Sarkoja merely gave us an ugly look and departed to hatch up deviltries against us.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

It seemed a wrong toward him that his uncle Deane had no confidence in him,–did not see at once that he should acquit himself well, which Tom himself was as certain of as of the daylight.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

But the country cannot afford to have us defeated.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

The judge at Salisbury Can't give him more than he undoubtedly Deserves.
— from Poems by Edward Thomas

All through his unoccupied days he carried with him the sense of folly, the consciousness that he could not justify to himself the course he was pursuing.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The enemies of the Church interpret all her discipline, and even some of her dogmas, by imputing to her ulterior designs; and hence they consider the law of celibacy as the result of an interested design.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

And there, to her unreasoning delight, after a space, was a square inch or so of milk and roses.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes' (Rom 3).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

When he travelled, his usual disguise was that of an itinerant preacher; and it is said that his discourses were very “soul moving”—interesting the hearers so much that they forgot to look after their horses, which were carried away by his confederates while he was preaching.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat