And therefore, where there is not this righteousness whereby the one supreme God rules the obedient city according to His grace, so that it sacrifices to none but Him, and whereby, in all the citizens of this obedient city, the soul consequently rules the body and reason the vices in the rightful order, so that, as the individual just man, so also the community and people of the just, live by faith, which works by love, that love whereby man loves God as He ought to be loved, and his neighbour as himself,—there, I say, there is not an assemblage associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and by a community of interests.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The dairyman himself had been lending a hand; but Mr Crick, as well as his wife, seemed latterly to have acquired a suspicion of mutual interest between these two; though they walked so circumspectly that suspicion was but of the faintest.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

By and by comes by promise to me Sir G. Carteret, and viewed the house above and below, and sat and drank there, and I had a little opportunity to kiss and spend some time with the ladies above, his daughter, a buxom lass, and his sister Fissant, a serious lady, and a little daughter of hers, that begins to sing prettily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

v [B; c16] for the steps to be long and heavy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His writings must be carefully studied line by line, and his unuttered thoughts must be read as distinctly as what he actually says.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The boy looked at her with some doubt and surprise, but she went on again without heeding it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I began; but looking at her I had not the heart to go on, and what was I to say to her?
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She has just been laughing at her mother to her very face, and at her sisters, and at Prince S., and everybody—and of course she always laughs at me!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Father Mancia took a sprinkler and threw over her a few drops of holy water; she opened her eyes, looked at the monk, and closed them immediately; a little while after she opened them again, had a better look at him, laid herself on her back, let her arms droop down gently, and with her head prettily bent on one side she fell into the sweetest of slumbers.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At a point in the progress of our bands, the King appeared on the scene, and naturally felt but little at his ease, seeing that the Socialists were the avowed enemies of all existing forms of government and their representatives.
— from Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents by Hamil Grant

The boy looked after him for a moment dubiously and then disappeared. Arrived at the third floor, at the extreme end of the corridor the former discovered a door, on which was painted the name of Mr. Aaron Rodd .
— from Aaron Rodd, Diviner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Who rushed off to lodge his information, so as to be beforehand in case any information were to be lodged against him?
— from The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

Here the Indians chafed his benumbed limbs, and having restored the vital heat, Smith inquired for their chief, and they pointed him to Opechancanough, the great chief of Pamunkey.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Roy began lifting and hauling away the loosened floorboards below.
— from Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

All rights not expressly granted by Licensor are hereby reserved.
— from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

A. "Wee laid down seventy and two, but they builded longer, and he who followed made new schemes for a certaine roofe in golde and crimson, very cunning.
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond

Bersenyev looked at him intently.
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

“I heard it somewhere,” answered Abel, gently and respectfully, but looking at Hope with a curious glance which seemed to her to penetrate every pore in her body.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis