" At the annual celebration of the resurrection of the Persian Savior "Mithra the Mediator," more than three thousand years ago, the priests were in the habit of exclaiming in a solemn and loud voice, "Cheer up, holy mourners; your God has come again to life; his sorrows and his sufferings will save you."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

“Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess,” said Mary Bogdánovna, not hastening her steps.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Amid horrid noise, and tumult as of fierce wolves, the Prisoners sink massacred,—all but some eleven, who escaped into houses, and found mercy.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And as he thought that so far as he relaxed as to the siege and taking of the place, so much favor did he show to those that were dearest to him by preventing their misery, his zeal about it was cooled.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Come!’—‘Oh yes, to be sure—yes, I did,’ says Mr Swiveller with a smile.—‘Have the goodness to banish a levity, sir, which is very ill-suited to the place in which you stand (though perhaps you have reason to be thankful that it’s only that place),’ says Mr Brass’s gentleman, with a nod of the head, insinuating that the dock is Mr Swiveller’s legitimate sphere of action; ‘and attend to me.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Occasionally, after my hoeing was done for the day, I joined some impatient companion who had been fishing on the pond since morning, as silent and motionless as a duck or a floating leaf, and, after practising various kinds of philosophy, had concluded commonly, by the time I arrived, that he belonged to the ancient sect of Cœnobites.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Then Phyllis said, “Mother, didn't YOU ever walk on the railway lines when you were little?”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

With this price established all sellers whose costs of production prevent their conforming to it must drop out of the market; so must all buyers whose desire for the article does not warrant their paying so much.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

And then at breakfast he came on this paragraph in the paper: “SOHO MURDER.
— from Five Tales by John Galsworthy

Through the palm-groves, fighting their way between patches of thick, prickly scrub, Mr. McKay and his companions continued their wearisome march, till, from the summit of the ridge that separated their bay from the one where they had first landed, they saw that the hostile canoes had gained considerably.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"But it was days after that last message before his signal went off, and the Patrol ship moved in."
— from Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse

Its streets follow the Thames, or come and go from the shores so pleasantly, that there is a sense of the river in it everywhere; and though I suppose people do not now resort to the place so much by water as they used, one is quite free to do so if one likes.
— from London Films by William Dean Howells

'Dear Jemmy,' said she, taking his arm as they went home in the evening, 'did not that psalm seem meant for us?—'If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.''
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

managizans , more ; we uze the positiv: several, many (see II, 6).—
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune