It was most unlikely; circumstances had changed!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

And therefore the Name of GOD is used, not to make us conceive him; (for he is Incomprehensible; and his greatnesse, and power are unconceivable;) but that we may honour him.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety nor fear, and ate greedily all that was offered them.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters; The lady widow of Utruvio; Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Good God!” thought Mr. Utterson, “can he, too, have been thinking of the will?”
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters; The lady widow of Vitruvio; Signior Placentio and His lovely nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters; My fair niece Rosaline and Livia; Signior Valentio and His cousin Tybalt; Lucio and the lively Helena.' [Gives back the paper.]
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I staid a week in New York City, visiting my uncle, Charles Hoyt, at his beautiful place on Brooklyn Heights, and my uncle James, then living in White Street.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The attacks made upon Christianity, hitherto, have been not only timid but false.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

With the deputy’s knowledge of crime and criminals, every word the young man uttered convinced him more and more of his innocence.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It was soon to appear that the great queen's most unlovely characteristic, her avarice; was a more blessed quality to the nation she ruled than the ridiculous prodigality of James.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Not I but my unfortunate companion had died; and in my delirious fancy I had regarded the friends who came to see her, and convey her to the grave, as my sister Martha and her little daughter Rhoda.
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

She had seen it completely happen to three other human beings, miraculously, unbelievably, certainly; had seen the babies who could not tell light from dark, heat from cold, emerge by the mere process of healthful living into keenly sensitive beings accurately alive to every minutest variation of the visible world.
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“By this time our reprysentative was feelin like he'd mistakin his callin, but musterin up courage, he sed: “'Mr. Perkins, I'm a yung aspyrant for jurnalistic onhers.
— from The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

The most notorious offender, General Wei of Ping-Yang notoriety, who had less than half the troops he drew pay for, and these mostly untrained coollies, hustled into the ranks to take the place of unpaid deserters, and in whose program fighting had no place, had paid certain influential persons liberally for his command.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

What made us come here at all?"
— from The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

‘I’ve had a misfortune since then, that’s pulled me under,’ continued her friend.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

The most usual condition, however, is that unity of 336 the two members above described, § V ., and which may be generally represented by the archivolt section a , Fig.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin