In his day the inhabitants were French Protestant weavers, and later Jews of a disreputable sort.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Well might Swift exclaim, comparing Change Alley to a gulf in the South Sea: “Subscribers here by thousands float, And jostle one another down, Each paddling in his leaky boat, And here they fish for gold and drown.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Whence also, on behalf of myself and of all commended to me in prayer, I offer and present unto Thee the jubilation of all devout hearts, their ardent affections, their mental ecstasies, and supernatural illuminations and heavenly visions, with all the virtues and praises celebrated and to be celebrated by every creature in heaven and earth; to the end that by all Thou mayest worthily be praised and glorified for ever.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

What could she do, what ought she to do?—she, hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Entonces, para que iguale Well, if the penitence su penitencia don Juan of a Don Juan ought to be con sus delitos, ¿qué vale equal to his crimes, what’s the sense el plazo ruin que le dan? in this wretched term they give me?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A small job as janitor of a dance hall helped him for a month.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

As I went by I see it was a lantern hanging on the jackstaff of a double-hull ferryboat.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Nor is it the invention of Russian Jews of the present time, a new political device which has been set up as a vehicle of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky; it is of ancient Jewish origin, a device which the Jews themselves invented to maintain their distinctive racial and national life after the conquest of Palestine by the Romans.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

I walked most of the distance under the shade of the peepul and banyan-trees which line the road, and reached Trichinopoly after a journey of a day and two nights.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Ravens bring a prophet sandwiches, another prophet besieges a tile, an axe swims on the water, a man slays a thousand men in battle with the jawbone of a donkey, an ass speaks, and a whale swallows and vomits a man.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

A child of God, and an heir to the kingdom of heaven, holds these four things by [Pg 322] a higher title; and his claim is under the jurisdiction of a Divine Judge.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

Somehow or other the town has assumed the proportions of a junction, or a drummers' fair.
— from Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Charles Eustace Merriman

The great German attack on May 13th—Twelve hours of Hun howitzer fire—Terrible and awe-inspiring spectacle—The niagara of shell-sound—Around impassable Ypres to Potijze—Close work by a coal-box—Through a black shell-cloud—The York and Durham "Terriers"—Bombarded in a Potijze dug-out—The shell-swept line—Colonel Budworth's wisdom and the German General's lost opportunity—The super-human work of the Queen's Bays saves the line—The Life Guards shelled from their trenches—Bits of position lost wholesale—Good work by an armoured car—Accurate and invaluable gunning by British Artillery—German attacks dispersed—Heavy casualties among the 18th Hussars—The splendid charge of the Blues, 10th Hussars and Essex Yeomanry—David Campbell's 6th Brigade holds a line of obliterated trenches—Reports of heavy losses—The remnants form a new line—A talk with two of the Blues on the battle-field—A plucky Essex Yeoman—Over 1,600 casualties in the two cavalry divisions engaged—A lost despatch case—In the "huts" near Vlamertinghe—An unnecessary run up the Menin Road at night—The flotsam and jetsam of a divisional relief in the dark—A cellar headquarters on the [xiii] Menin Road—The position at Hooge—Cheery K.R.R. cyclists—A gunner's curious story—The composition of the Salient line on the morning of May 24th—
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman

I hope, Mr. Chairman, we have more respect for our situation as citizens, than to expose ourselves to the taunts and jeers of a deriding world, by making that situation too cheap.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

You argue, for instance, in your Second Sermon, that if Job offered a daily sacrifice, before the coming of the Law, then Christians also, after the Law, may probably offer the like.
— from Church Ministry in Kensington A Recent Case of Hieratical Teaching Scripturally Considered by John Philip Gell

Gus's plane, a light private job of a different make than Rick's and painted red, was standing on the apron.
— from Smugglers' Reef: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

As quick as a flash he darted into the dining-room, and jerking open a door that led into the street, soon put a safe distance between himself and the combatants.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

Uneasily I pondered over what he had said, and recalled the words spoken by Father Benôit, even by Géol, to the same effect; and so brooded in my corner, while the carriage jolted on and darkness fell, until presently we stopped in the village street.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman