Union of various grades, union of diverse types, union that stops at non-conductors, union that merely goes from next to next, and means in many cases outer nextness only, and not a more internal bond, union of concatenation, in short; all that sort of thing seems to you a halfway stage of thought.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

When we were come within six yards of their boat, they called to us to stay, and not to approach farther; which we did.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

But again, will they tell us that such a nature, placed under favourable circumstances, will not be perfectly good and wise if any ever was?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Young men, dressed in red robes and crowned like the virgins with maize, then carried the idol in its litter to the foot of the great pyramid-shaped temple, up the steep and narrow steps of which it was drawn to the music of flutes, trumpets, cornets, and drums.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Nor is the famous command given by God to Abraham, to go two or three days' journey, on purpose to offer up his son Isaac there, unfavorable to such a notion.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

O Sir, to me the loss is nothing!-greatly, sweetly, and most benevolently have you guarded me from feeling it; but for him, I grieve indeed!-I must be divested, not merely of all filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I broke down totally under the strain about November 8th, came home in the spring of the following year and remained an invalid for several years thereafter; and as a noted corporation lawyer once said after recovery from a similar illness, “I haven’t had much constitution since, but have been living mostly under the by-laws.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Yes, by his uniform, but primarily a mechanic, this man from Birmingham, who is polishing that heavy piece of steel which, when it locks in the breech, holds the shell fast in place and allows all the force of the explosion to pass through the muzzle, while the recoil cylinder takes up the shock as nicely as on a battleship, with no tremble of the base set in the débris of a village.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

This struck both Moses and the host as dead; But Moses, when he went into the mount The second time, upon the same account No fear, nor dread, nor shaking of his mind, Do we in all the holy Scripture find; But rather in his spirit he had rest, And look'd upon himself as greatly blest.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

The heathen who spoke of preaching as “turning the world upside down” hit on the truth; and those of us who fail to turn up the soil are not likely to reap all we might do.
— from Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness

Hero sat next the window, and looked out anxiously, as the little mountain engine toiled up the steep ascent, nearer and nearer to the top.
— from The Little Colonel's Hero by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

The maiden looked eagerly with knitted brows, and soon saw Osberne take up the shaft and nock it on the bowstring.
— from The Sundering Flood by William Morris

It is therefore unfair to stigmatize a nation with the brand of cowardice, from the prevalence of this blood-thirsty practice.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen