Then said Christian, "As it was difficult coming up, so far so as I can see, it is dangerous going down."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

witness, too, the silent cry, The prayer of many a race and creed, and clime— Thunderless lightnings striking under sea From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm, And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us 'keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The title is: ‘Sotto spezie di confessione e di purissima coscienza una donna, innamorata d’un giovane, induce un solenne frate, senza avvedersene egli, a dar modo che’l piacer di lei avessi intero effetto’.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Presently, Fernande, who was fond of music, asked Rosa to sing something, and she boldly struck up the “Gros Cure de Meudon,” but Madame Tellier made her stop immediately, as she thought it a very unsuitable song for such a day, and she added: “Sing us something of Beranger's.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

usab short forms: sab and sad .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

My affectionate valet was infected with my sorrow, and often sat with me whole hours without speaking, uttering sigh for sigh, and shedding tear for tear.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Christ's protests were misunderstood by his followers, who tried to reconcile them with the old traditions, until Saint Froebel suggested a practical application of Christ's injunctions, but out of that method wonderful results have already been obtained and marvelous possibilities have been uncovered.
— from That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine by Horace Fletcher

The negro started up, stupid from sleep and from his wound.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

In a moment, roused up suddenly from sleep, and forgetting every thing but those tender recollections of gentle care in infancy, and kindness all through life, the child of nature startled out of bed, drew the bolt, and in beauteous disarray, fell into that old man's arms!
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Among Shakespeare's dramas he could hardly have pitched upon a more unfit subject for such a title.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

Aside from the perpetuation of the national forests, the U. S. Forest Service also undertakes such tree studies as lie beyond the power or means of private individuals.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

Under such formidable systems, a tranquil, sociable devotee, is a man who has not reasoned upon them.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

It should, however, not be forgotten that these restrictions bore with equal weight upon the Ulster settlers from Scotland and England, who managed somehow to endure them successfully.
— from Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Samuel Peter Orth