Then by degrees the reality broke upon me, full of chaste terrors.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Muug-ug (maug-ug) ang mga balay ug maglínug, The houses will shake if there is an earthquake.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nevertheless, looking at the old warrior with affection,—for, slight as was the communication between us, my feeling towards him, like that of all bipeds and quadrupeds who knew him, might not improperly be termed so,—I could discern the main points of his portrait.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For strike me blind, my lambs, if I didn't ketch in a river the wery bundle under my arm!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Cardinal S. C. received me with great kindness mingled with dignity, to make me realize the importance of the favour he was bestowing upon me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For my part, whose garden was always the whole island, the moment I wanted to make or verify an observation, I ran into the woods or meadows with my book under my arm, and there laid myself upon the ground near the plant in question, to examine it at my ease as it stood.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Being afterward removed to Oxford, he became, under Mr. Harley, of Magdalen college, an elegant Latin and Greek scholar.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And indeed, there are several Reasons which make us think that the Natives of this Country had formerly among them some sort of Worship; for they set apart every seventh Day as sacred: But upon my going into one of these 4 holy Houses on that Day, I could not observe any Circumstance of Devotion in their Behaviour: There was indeed a Man in Black who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of Vehemence; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their Worship to the Deity of the Place, they were most of them bowing and curtisying to one another, and a considerable Number of them fast asleep.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Down broad, gleaming avenues they passed, where similar traffic flowed densely, but under marvelous control.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Various

It has been used extensively in Europe and when better known will be used more generally in America.
— from Color Cement Handicraft by Pedro J. (Pedro Joseph) Lemos

By judicious pumping I discovered it was Harold Forsyth who had blown upon me and “queered my pitch,” as showmen say, having come over from Colchester to play golf, and been seized upon by the watchful Thatcher, who of course had noticed my unremitting attentions to his daughter.
— from The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day by Walter Frith

“Mr. O’Malley, of O’Malley Castle.” “True, I forgot; why is he not in uniform?” “Because, unfortunately, my Lord, we don’t own him; he’s not in the army.” “Ha! ha!
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

It was due doubtless to the traditions of these visits, when Judge Gould, the hero of the great Biggs murder case, would be at the Nedahma House, and Senator Yates, who unravelled and dragged to the pitiless light the masonic plot to blow up Mount Vernon, was to be found at the turnpike tavern, and both would keep pretty well in-doors toward evening because Colonel De Lancey, who had shot four men before Hamilton’s death discredited duelling, was in town on private business—it was no doubt due to these memories that Tyre kept up its political tastes and, in a faded way, its political prestige, long after its material importance and interest had vanished.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

Some temptations that beset us must be steadily faced and subdued.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

In truth, that knowledge which belongeth unto Mine own Essence is such as none hath ever attained or will ever grasp, nor shall any heart be capable of bearing its weight.
— from The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

But unless ministers continually prove by all the “fruits of the Spirit ,” that the Spirit of God is with them, their ordination does nothing for p. 35 them in our esteem, but load them with extraordinary sin and guilt.
— from The True Ministers of Christ Accredited by the Holy Spirit: A Sermon by Philip Gell