They did begin; and being too much engaged in their own noise to be struck by an unusual noise in the other part of the house, had proceeded some way when the door of the room was thrown open, and Julia, appearing at it, with a face all aghast, exclaimed, “My father is come!
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

We have seen the portraits of our great-grandfathers dressed in this way; but the "pepper gentlemen" had no money to spare to have their portraits taken, though one of them would have made a very interesting picture for us now, if taken as he appeared standing behind his counter, or going to church, or on holidays.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

This was said, before the Reformation, in a “low voice” by the priest, until he came to “and lead us not into temptation,” to which the choir responded, “but deliver us from evil.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I accused him of meaning to stand for Middlemarch on the Liberal side, and he looked silly and never denied it—talked about the independent line, and the usual nonsense." "Is that all?" said Sir James, much relieved.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It is, therefore, neither unlikely nor impossible that, when the part adjoining the skin becomes suddenly oppressed by an unwonted cold, it should at once be weakened and should find that the liquid previously deposited beside it without discomfort had now become more of a burden than a source of nutrition, and should therefore strive to put it away.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

So far then, not only the empirical character of every man, but also that of every species of animal and plant, and even of every original force of unorganised nature, is to be regarded as the manifestation of an intelligible character, that is, of a timeless, indivisible act of will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

According to these highly respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying,—conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels,—had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A. C. Benson 567 G UTTER -N ICKEL , T HE Estelle Loomis 570 Picture by J. Montgomery Flagg.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

Of this danger he knows nothing, never dreams of praying against it, takes his seat in his pew Sunday after Sunday with his family, nor ever murmurs Lead us not into temptation with the least sense that temptation is a frightful thing, but repeats and responds and listens in perfect self-satisfaction, doubting never that a world made up of such as he must be a pleasant sight in the eyes of the Perfect.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 by George MacDonald

It is piercing cold; only blackened walls for us now in the Karlau or elsewhere.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

But rest and reform were urgently needed if this political welding was to acquire solid strength, and rest and reform were alike
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Men repeat the Lord's Prayer every morning, and ask God day by day 'lead us not into temptation,' and then go out into daily life, and are willing to fling themselves into temptation, and go through the very thick of the fire of it, if there is a ten pound note on the other side of the flame.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

The two Thierrys have, in a great measure, avoided this fatal error; for, though their narratives are as much based on original and contemporary authorities as any histories can be, the quotations are usually given in an abbreviated form in the notes, and the text is, in general, an unbroken narrative, in their own perspicuous and graphic language.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

"Lead us not into temptation—" a proposition scandalous and manifestly heretical, for there is no tempter but the devil, and it is expressly said in St. James' Epistle: "God is no tempter of the wicked; He tempts no man."— "Deus enim intentator malorum est; ipse autem neminem tentat."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02 by Voltaire

So the unadventurous Nomad in the Tartarian wild keeps his flock in the same close-cropped circle where they first learned to browse, while the progressive man roves ever forth "to fresh fields and pastures new."
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

One herb is tried after another; the last of his rupees disappears among the hakims , for, peradventure, think they, the doctor did not heal it at once because his fee was not high enough, so a larger fee is given, and a hint that if only he will say for what price he will speedily heal it, they will go all lengths to pay him; for it must be unwillingness , not incapability, that prevents his doing so.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell