"Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto men more than to God, judge ye," Acts 4:19.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Nor that there be more Gods than one; because it implies them all Finite: for there cannot be more than one Infinite: Nor to ascribe to him (unlesse Metaphorically, meaning not the Passion, but the Effect) Passions that partake of Griefe; as Repentance, Anger, Mercy: or of Want; as Appetite, Hope, Desire; or of any Passive faculty: For Passion, is Power limited by somewhat else.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

With an assumption of kindness which sat worse upon him even than his usual manner, Mr. Ralph Nickleby motioned to the young lady to precede him, and bowing gravely to Miss La Creevy, closed the door and followed upstairs, where Mrs. Nickleby received him with many expressions of regard.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I never was so much afraid of death as at this time, and had I died with the apprehensions I then had upon my mind, I should have died in despair.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She did so wish she was rich, she said, and this wish she kept repeating, with no thought of herself in it, only with a longing, yearning desire to be able to heap up Miss Matty’s measure of comforts.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as lift a cart like that on his back.” Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word that he uttered:— “Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing what you ask.” Madeleine shuddered.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"These hopes uphold me, my dear Esther, and I know they will.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I supposed that I should not be obliged to put an end to this highly unpleasant matter myself, but that you would undertake this charge.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 4 by Charles de Bernard

Having observed, however, that during the late cholera epidemic some of the patients admitted into the hospital under my medical charge slept well, had their anxiety improved, and some of them ultimately recovered, after the application of a strong counter-irritation of the pneumogastric nerves in the neck, namely, between the mastoid process and the angle of the lower jaw, I tried the same treatment on whooping patients, and I have no hesitation in stating that the result was very satisfactory.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

But I had not been his wife three months before I would have given worlds to have undone my marriage.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

So now she had to throw herself upon my mercy.
— from Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel by Upton Sinclair

[221] “Will they hurt us maybe, mamma?”
— from Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff

The Duke showed me the letter he had written to Lord Combermere in reply to his, upon my Memorandum.
— from A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

And now I make my notes in this little railroad coach, with the telegraph wires running in and out of the picture that I see through my window; and, indeed, it is this implied contrast which I think has urged me most to tell you these more or less accurate anecdotes.
— from An Artist's Letters from Japan by John La Farge

The latter on account of its more [Pg 36] complicated and concealed mechanism is liable to be left in an unserviceable condition for safety in the home (unloaded, magazines misplaced, etc.)
— from Pistol and Revolver Shooting by A. L. A. (Abraham Lincoln Artman) Himmelwright