It must be remembered that many of the Psalms of David were written by him when persecuted by Saul, as also in the tribulation caused by the wicked conduct of his son Absalom.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

According to Isabel, if Miss Molyneux should ever learn what had passed between Miss Archer and Lord Warburton she would probably be shocked at such a girl’s failure to rise; or no, rather (this was our heroine’s last position) she would impute to the young American but a due consciousness of inequality.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I tried vainly to soothe her and reason with her—she was past being soothed, and past being reasoned with.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A person may be affected with passion, by supposing a pain or pleasure to lie in an object, which has no tendency to produce either of these sensations, or which produces the contrary to what is imagined.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

balintawak n 1 a woman’s dress consisting of a blouse with puffed butterfly sleeves, a long striped skirt, and a piece of cloth overlaid.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Chapter v. — In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I explained how he objected to the whole household at the Heights, and how sorry he would be to find she had been there; but I insisted most on the fact, that if she revealed my negligence of his orders, he would perhaps be so angry that I should have to leave; and Cathy couldn’t bear that prospect: she pledged her word, and kept it for my sake.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd's plantation.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Your hostess will probably be sufficiently annoyed by the irregularity itself; do not add to her discomfort by allowing her to suppose that her guests perceive the deficiencies.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

In other cases the house would be packed with people, but scarcely a teacher there.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878 by Various

The building was plain but substantial, and the audience-room large and cheerful looking.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

A disturber would probably be shot, and though the shot would alarm the household, the burglars would have time to escape in the darkness.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

All three editions were printed by S. and J. Ridge, booksellers of Newark, England.
— from Fugitive Pieces by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Should you at any time take a fancy to a dainty little sponge in the druggist's window, and step in, thinking to buy it, you will probably be surprised at the price asked for it.
— from Harper's Young People, January 3 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

His Travels in New England and New York , including descriptions of Niagara, the White Mountains, Lake George, the Catskills, and other passages of natural scenery, not so familiar then as now, was published posthumously in 1821, was praised by Southey, and is still readable.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but, if it were possible, its effects would, probably, be such as he has assigned[4]; and it may be said, that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

"That in all the coal fields accidents of a fearful nature are extremely frequent; and that the returns made to our own queries, as well as the registry tables, prove that, of the work-people who perish by such accidents, the proportion of children and young persons sometimes equals and rarely falls much below that of adults.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

The modern reader will probably be surprised at the comprehensiveness of the work, which, besides general diseases, includes considerable portions of physiology, physiognomy, ophthalmology, laryngology, otology, gynecology, neurology, dermatology, embryology, obstetrics, dietetics, urinary and venereal diseases, therapeutics, toxicology, operative surgery, cosmetics and even the hygiene of travel and the prevention of sea-sickness.
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson