desiring to be clothed upon with his house which is from heaven, and calleth upon this lower deep, saying, Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Skrymir’s thongs Seemed to thee hard, When at the food thou couldst not get, When, in full health, of hunger dying.”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I began to think.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

That sort of goodness and simplicity which Lady Jane possessed annoyed our friend Becky, and it was impossible for her at times not to show, or to let the other divine, her scorn.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Eagle protested that it was idle for him to try, as nature had not provided him with wings; but the Tortoise pressed him with entreaties and promises of treasure, insisting that it could only be a question of learning the craft of the air.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

After sermon to my brother Tom’s, who I found has taken physic to-day, and I talked with him about his country mistress, and read Cook’s letter, wherein I am well satisfied, and will appear in promoting it; so back and to Mr. Rawlinson’s, and there supped with him, and in came my uncle Wight and my aunt.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But his continual drunkenness only lulled his terror, which awoke more furiously than ever as soon as it was impossible for him to calm it.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"I knew he wanted it for his children," said Sara.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The words issued from her lips one by one—hoarse, jerky, tremulous.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He would, in fact, have been both amazed and shocked if he could have been an unseen witness of Alice Keeling’s proceedings when she found herself in the privacy of her own bedroom that night.
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

He did not know why: in fact he felt almost hurt at his coming there that morning; and again, he did not know why, but he knew one thing, and that was that he would have given ten pounds that moment to know why Archibald Graves had come down that day, and what he said to Miss Thorne, and—yes, he would have given twenty pounds to know what Hazel Thorne said to him.
— from The New Mistress: A Tale by George Manville Fenn

Such an ideal is happily opposed to that vulgar ideal which is equally English, the ideal of wealth, with its formula, “ How much is he worth?”
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

After a while, because it was impossible for him not to say it, he softly asked: “Are you asleep?”
— from The Woman from Outside [On Swan River] by Hulbert Footner

It was evident enough that they were all in high spirits, and I seemed to hear the sparkling impertinences which issued from her laughing lips as she looked from one to the other of the boys with many a toss of her yellow curls and shrug of her round shoulders.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

Bears, cats, dogs, mice, sheep and beavers are wrapped in fur, hair, fell, fleece or pelt, so these creatures cannot by any means be regarded as being naked.
— from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

She had already heard about Tessie and Nap, and now she rushed to the edge of the deck, and when Irma followed her, the child upturned to her a disappointed face.
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

I then procured her address, visited her home, where I found her godmother, and proposed—" "Enough, sir!
— from A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue

“It is not the Marquis de Courtornieu whom I fear,” he murmured, “but his daughter—my wife.” H2 anchor
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau