If this really be a moral universe; if by my acts I be a factor of its destinies; if to believe where I may doubt be itself a moral act { 109} analogous to voting for a side not yet sure to win,—by what right shall they close in upon me and steadily negate the deepest conceivable function of my being by their preposterous command that I shall stir neither hand nor foot, but remain balancing myself in eternal and insoluble doubt?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

This proposal really made me tremble, and the Branghtons all hung back upon it; but Madame Duval is never to be dissuaded from a scheme she has once formed.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

TROTTER I n a small room in the vicinity of the stableyard, betimes in the morning, which was ushered in by Mr. Pickwick’s adventure with the middle—aged lady in the yellow curl-papers, sat Mr. Weller, senior, preparing himself for his journey to London.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A comparatively large number of vowel combinations remain unchanged: as ea and eā in eam , her , and meā , by my (fem. sing.); ia and iā in māria , seas , viātōris , of the traveller ; ua and uā in bēlua , monster , suā , through her (fem. sg.); iē in quiēs , quiet ; uē in luēs , pestilence ; eī in meī , of me ; uī in tuī , of thee ; eō in meō , by my (masc.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I have little or nothing to send to my family, unless it be my prayers and tears for them; of which it will suffice that you acquaint them, if peradventure they may prevail."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The Sergeant-at-arms very soon put a quietus upon the observations of the representative of the nation, and convinced him that he was not in the over-free atmosphere of his Happy-Land-of-Canaan: The statement of Senator Dilworthy naturally carried conviction to the minds of the committee.—It was close, logical, unanswerable; it bore many internal evidences of its truth.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Something should also be said about double paddles--that is, paddles with two blades--one at each end--as their use is becoming more general every year.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Yet, thus called upon, it behoves me to explain, and endeavour to vindicate, the reasons by which I have been hitherto guided.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

[49] courses and urine, increases both milk and seed.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And if, as we shall see later, it did in fact grossly fail to afford such adequate protection for life and property, it was derelict in the most sacred duty enjoined upon it by Mr. McKinley’s instructions to the Taft Commission.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

A venerable father, in the midst of his family; he and they doomed to an ignominious and instant death, unless I betray my country and abandon these walls.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Next to the Hedjra, that part of the southern colonnade north of the partition is considered the most holy place in the mosque, and called Rodha, i. e. a garden, or the Garden of the Faithful; a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said: Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

It deepened steadily until it became more than a sigh; it was a moan.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

The beast was upon its belly, moving forward very slowly.
— from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The great leader and master of all this rhodomontade is Homer’s “Ulysses,” who talks to Alcinous about the winds {75} pent up in bags, man-eaters, and one-eyed Cyclops, wild men, creatures with many heads, several of his companions turned into beasts by enchantment, and a thousand things of this kind, which he related to the ignorant and credulous Phæacians.
— from Trips to the Moon by of Samosata Lucian

Not only do the clouds encircle or rest upon it, but men have laid on it their grandest thoughts: we have associated with it our moral fortitude, and all we understand of greatness or elevation of mind; our phraseology seems half reflected from the mountain.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

Staffurth unrolled it before me and exhibited the three signatures at foot.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux

Therefore none beside the sentries ever trespass on me here, unless it be my grandfather, or the Counsellor or Carver.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore