He went no more up to Mount Sinai; but he went into the tabernacle, and brought back answers from God for what he prayed for.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Your most humble servant, William Serene." " Mr. Spectator , Understanding that Mr. Serene has writ to you, and desired to be raised from dumb and still Parts; I desire, if you give him Motion or Speech, that you would advance me in my Way, and let me keep on in what I humbly presume I am a Master, to wit, in representing human and still Life together.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A while we must leave Tom in the hands of his persecutors, while we turn to pursue the fortunes of George and his wife, whom we left in friendly hands, in a farmhouse on the road-side. Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

THEN upon the morn Sir Palomides returned from the King of Northgalis, and rode to King Arthur's side, where was King Carados, and the King of Ireland, and Sir Launcelot's kin, and Sir Gawaine's kin.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“I never rightly understood those men,” said the queen, as she watched him retiring from her presence; “and it is now too late, for in a year the king will be of age.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

This latter reflection urged the man still to follow the fugitive.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In vain would history be ransacked for a parallel to this emperor, who united the most shameful vices to the most extravagant vanity, the most abject meanness to the strongest but most preposterous ambition; and the whole of whose life was one continued scene of lewdness, sensuality, rapine, cruelty, and folly.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

e’er so strong, Some rising genius sins up to my song.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

"Did you boys hear or see the ship that passed over us this morning?" "Ship?" "No, we didn't see nor hear a thing.
— from The Planet Mappers by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

"True, but how to come at it?" "How if we boiled sea-water, Martin?" "'Tis method unknown to me," says I, whittling at a leg of my stool, "but we can try.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

As I understand the matter she is rich."
— from Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Larger image Then, as regards the tool-making and fettling—the other branch of work carried out in the tool room—it has been recognised that, to make the cutting tools efficient, it [113] is necessary to utilise the most suitable steel for the tools working on various metals and alloys; and the selection of the tool steel for each metal has been systematised by the careful collation of data of actual work.
— from Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

"Lord, deal not harshly with the erring," sighed the missioner, and then he prayed: "Let not his disobedience cause him and us too much sorrow, Blessed Virgin.
— from The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Joseph Spillman

To the cold, the unimpassioned, or the unpoetical, this may seem impossible.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard