For as all the Church, because it was made a Church by the death of Him that gave it life, is wont to bear the sign of His Holy Cross on the forehead, to the end, that it may, by the constant protection of His banner, be defended from the assaults of evil spirits, and by the frequent admonition of the same be taught, in like manner, to crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts; 983 so also it behoves those, who having either taken the vows of a monk, or having the degree of a clerk, must needs curb themselves the more strictly by continence, for the Lord's sake, to bear each one of them on his head, by the tonsure, the form of the crown of thorns which He bore on His head in His Passion, that He might bear the thorns and thistles of our sins, that is, that he might bear them away and take them from us; to the end that they may show on their foreheads that they also willingly, and readily, endure all scoffing and [pg 372] reproach for his sake; and that they may signify that they await always ‘the crown of eternal life, which God hath promised to them that love him,’ 984 and that for the sake of attaining thereto they despise both the evil and the good of this world.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

All his clothes were fresh from the tailor’s and were all right, except for being too new and too distinctly appropriate.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The old open-air punishments, the pillory and the gibbet, at least fixed responsibility upon the law; and in actual practice they gave the mob an opportunity of throwing roses as well as rotten eggs; of crying “Hosannah” as well as “Crucify.”
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

If it is a duty to do to each according to his deserts, returning good for good as well as repressing evil by evil, it necessarily follows that we should treat all equally well (when no higher duty forbids) who have deserved equally well of us, and that society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Well, it'll be a hard case if he's gone off now, the way we'll never set our eyes on a man killed his father, and we after rising early and destroying ourselves running fast on the hill.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

There, on a bed, lay a man about forty years of age, with a resolute expression of countenance, a true type of an Anglo-Saxon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

People looked at one another with a roused expression; eyes kindled, heads nodded involuntary approval, and an emphatic, "that's so!" dropped from the lips of men who saw their own vague instincts and silent opinions strongly confirmed and nobly uttered.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Don Quixote, however, paid no attention to these difficulties, and in perfect safety to himself and without any risk encountered him of the Mirrors with such force that he brought him to the ground in spite of himself over the haunches of his horse, and with so heavy a fall that he lay to all appearance dead, not stirring hand or foot.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This has invariably been the result, in Europe as well as Rajasthan, else why the dread of standing armies?
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The price paid is in accordance with a reasonable estimate of the service the slave will be able to render during life.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott

When “severely spoken to” by its master because on the battlefield it had deserted Patroclos, the horse first “looked about him sadly,” and then, according to the “Iliad,” it told Achilles with a reproachful expression in its eyes that he too would soon be dead, for that this was “the inexorable decree of destiny”—a prophecy that came true.
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer

The exhibitor disappeared with all speed behind the drapery; and his partner, stationing himself by the side of the Theatre, surveyed the audience with a remarkable expression of melancholy, which became more remarkable still when he breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is popularly termed a mouth-organ, without at all changing the mournful expression of the upper part of his face, though his mouth and chin were, of necessity, in lively spasms.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Not a word about Rhodopis! Evidently Kleis does not exist.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Only ten minutes more, aye, everything marked it: the brawl of the stream outside, the rushing of the wind, the scattering of the rain like a legion of fleeing feet, then a sudden pause in the downpour when his [145] heart beat as if waiting on an unseen footstep; the very singing of the lazy kettle was a drone in this wild race of stream and wind and rain, emphasising the speed of all else.
— from Through Welsh Doorways by Jeannette Augustus Marks

But when all is over, the battle fought and won, and women are regarded everywhere as human beings and citizens, many women will remember with bitterness that in the day of our struggle, the church stood off, aloof and dignified, and let us fight alone.
— from In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

Den Tenie 'membered de tree didn' hab no years, en she wuz gittin' ready fer ter wuk her goopher mixtry so ez ter turn Sandy back, w'en de mill-hands kotch holt er her en tied her arms wid a rope, en fasten' her to one er de posts in de saw-mill; en den dey started de saw up ag'in, en cut de log up inter bo'ds en scantlin's right befo' her eyes.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

In my hartie maner I co m mende me vnto you, Aduertising the same that Whereas complaint hath nowe lately been made vnto the King es Ma ies tie on the behalf of my Ladye Carewe howe that you haue made a wrongfull and riotouse entree into a certayn f r ee chapell and a litle close grounde abowt the same whiche chapell and grounde his hieghnes hath geven and graunted vnto her by his grac es l ette res patent es during her lief, the remayndre thereof to Fraunceys Carewe her sonne, and to the heyres masles of his bodye begoten, So that it seameth his maiestie hath the Reversion of the fee simple in him, his heyres and successo ur s.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

"Well, with your consent I'll do what I can," replied Mrs. Hahn, and with a relieved expression she hastened to make some plans that were to amount very much to Edwin.
— from The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher: A True Story by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum

At its head walked Saunders, master in the order, his opportunity now at hand; and behind him, in full regalia, came many others, all the leading citizens of this community, the pillars of the church, the props of the business structure of this village, the leaders and formers of its customs and its social order; all these anxious that the appearance of the secret order in public should be in all ways above reproach, even at cost of this quasi-public rehearsal.
— from The Broken Gate: A Novel by Emerson Hough