In which Shewing I saw and understood full surely that in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall: which Will is so good that it may never will evil, but evermore continually it willeth good; and worketh good in the sight of God.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The worse everything became, especially his own affairs, the better was Pierre pleased and the more evident was it that the catastrophe he expected was approaching.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

And when every body entirely held their peace, he stood up, and covering the greatest part of his head with his cloak, he put up the accustomed solemn prayers; the like prayers did Titus put up also; after which prayers Vespasian made a short speech to all the people, and then sent away the soldiers to a dinner prepared for them by the emperors.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Domestic Animals, Pets and the Like. —Could there be anything more repugnant than the sentimentality which is shown to plants and animals—and this on the part of a creature who from the very beginning has made such ravages among them as their most ferocious enemy,—and who ends by even claiming affectionate feelings from his weakened and mutilated victims!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Even Albert, generally so tranquil, had quite lost his composure; and I was excited beyond expression.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That her effort was appreciated was evident by everyone's commenting on her prompt and charming notes.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered—the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The neophyte, thus spurred on by the belief that he was carrying out the commands of the Prophet, who would reward him with eternal bliss, eagerly entered into the schemes laid down for him and devoted his life to murder.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

It prefers stiller water, and is more at home in weedy situations, and will thrive in quiet, mossy ponds with muddy bottom where the small-mouth would eventually become extinct; on the other hand, the large-mouth can exist wherever it is possible for the small-mouth to do so.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

The conch, or religious hell, was then blown with a blast so shrill and loud, that it resembled the sound of the last trump; the tublea rolled, and was echoed by endless reverberations; hideous shouts of superstitious frenzy mingling their discordant jar, ran along the mighty concave like pealing thunderbolts, until gradually these sounds of terror fainted away in sobbing echoes; and the awful procession departed from the temple to the same solemn strains, in the same order in which it had entered it.
— from The Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. II by Lady (Sydney) Morgan

Here the youthful Japanese officers of the navy were educated by English instructors in all the branches and requirements of the modern naval service, and some of the work we saw in the different parts of the building shews that the Japanese [128] have become thorough masters of the technicalities, and no mean adepts at their practical application.
— from In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith

er so, ter he'p out his son-in-law in his wuk; en bein' ez dis yuther man
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

It was papered in a trying shade of terra-cotta and the walls were embellished by enlarged photographs of the Bathgate family—decent, well-living people, but plain-headed to a degree.
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

Whatever economy be exercised in the choice of the balance, it is essential that the set of weights should be of the greatest accuracy, and especially that all the weights of one denomination (10 grm., 1 grm., etc.), should accurately balance each other.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

He would arrange and rearrange the furniture, and would drape a curtain a thousand different ways, and yet nothing was ever beautiful enough for him.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

What a tremendous advantage they had had in shooting from among the bushes on the bank, where they could not be seen, over us who had to show up over a parapet every time we looked for an enemy, and show up, moreover, just in the very place where every Boer expected us to, and was watching.
— from The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

In reference to Masiko selling slaves to the Mambari, they promised to explain the relationship which exists between even the most abject of his people and our common Father; and that no more kidnapping ought to be allowed, as he ought to give that peace and security to the smaller tribes on his eastern borders which he so much desired to obtain himself from the Makololo.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone