For if after the Resurrection, such as have not heard of Christ, or not beleeved in him, may be received into Christs Kingdome; it is not in vain, after their death, that their friends should pray for them, till they should be risen.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Whole potatoes should be put in boiling salted water and boil rapidly in covered kettle from fifteen to thirty minutes according to size and age.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston

My mother seemed, after her brief relapse into comparative kindness, to have become more inaccessible than ever; and she walked along by my side, with downcast eyes and a nervous, thoughtful expression on her pale face.
— from Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Youth brings its eager fancy, its bright expectations, its energetic rashness, to the mithridate; and Age its sober reason, its bright remembrances, its calm knowledge, and its tried powers.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The introduction of the commonplace is often an advantage in life; it relieves over-strained tension, and sobers too self-confident or self-sacrificing emotions by recalling its close kinship with them.
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev