After that I begin quite slowly, and ask if no one is there who could help me.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

This action amazed the whole congregation, and one person drawing a dagger, wounded Gardiner in the shoulder, and would, by repeating the blow, have finished him, had not the king called to him to desist.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

At present, the company is more agreeable than one could expect from an accidental assemblage of persons, who are utter strangers to one another—There seems to be a general disposition among us to maintain good-fellowship, and promote the purposes of humanity, in favour of those who come hither on the score of health.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But better than the pity was the wise counsel, the cheering words, and the devout surrender of the soul to its best instincts; its close communion with its Maker, unchilled by fear, untrammelled by the narrowness of sect or superstition, but full and free and natural as the breath of life.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

For I am convinced that we can do nothing until we have seen the Mole and the Badger, and heard their latest news, and held conference and taken their advice in this difficult matter."
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

"Ho, every man that thirsteth, come yee to the waters, come, and buy wine and milke without money."
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But yet, when they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys, that went before, were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions so they stepped back, and went behind.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

There were continual cries of: “Father, kindly give us some kvass!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Spanish judge-advocate-general commented upon the address: “The preceding address to his countrymen which Dr. Rizal proposes to direct to them, is not in substance the patriotic protest against [ 118 ] separatist manifestations and tendencies which ought to come from those who claim to be loyal sons of Spain.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

There is a matter that seems to me to have escaped observation—it certainly is not generally admitted—that in society not notably occult, in what, in fact, are often spoken of as Hunting Circles (though why circles, save with a very bad fox, it is hard to say), these privileged beings are found.
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

He then asked for our passes, and I told him that he was too old a soldier not to know that we could not possibly have a pass, it being all that a captain's commission was worth to give leave of absence in those days, stating to him, in explanation of our absence from our command, that we had been in service for over two years without any leave; that when we had begged our captain to let us go home when it was so close he had told us that we could simply slip off, if we would promise to be back in ten
— from The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by S. A. (Samuel A.) Swiggett

018:019 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 018:020
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah by Anonymous

We passed in the evening two rocky islands, or skerries, rising straight out of the water, called Gli Fratelli or The Brothers.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

In every quarter of the field the enemy was in full retreat, and as darkness began to fall the whole Confederate line crossed Cedar Run and swept up the 1 O.R., vol.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

They were charged with having engineered the boldest and most comprehensive swindle ever exposed in this country.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

He was rather surprised at the warmth of that western country in summer, and at the way heat kept up in the evenings.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

Another, the Patate, rises near Iliniza, runs through the plain to a little south of Cotopaxi, receives all streams flowing from the eastern side of the western Cordillera from Iliniza to Chimborazo, and unites near Tunguragua with the Chambo, which rises near Sangaí.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

And if, we doing this, our God shall deliver us, and what we have, into the hands of them that hate us, let us laugh, be fearless and careless, not minding now to do anything else but to stand up for Him against the workers of iniquity; fully concluding, that both we, and our enemies, are in the hand of him that loveth his people, and that will certainly render a reward to the wicked, after that he has sufficiently tried us by their means.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan