The Tower-walls Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured GLOUCESTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A being in power and action, with regard to the same effects, is as much a contradiction as a being in rest and motion at the same time.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

Now, list to two men carrying a large deep tub of honey between them, and bellowing in rapid alternation, " Miele , miele ," and say if their accents are mellifluous!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

The lean-to cells are built in rows, and measure three feet eight inches in width by five feet nine inches in length, being six feet high in front and nine feet in the back.
— from China by Blake, Henry Arthur, Sir

and all the others intreated as a favor, that those who were from the east would unfold this arcanum, because it required a more than ordinary depth of understanding, and because those who were from the east are in flaming light, that is, in the wisdom of love, this wisdom being understood by the garden of Eden, in which those two trees were placed.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

After that the children were simply at the mercy of their owners, nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages and whom it was not worth while even to feed and clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

And because it remains a mystery to us, to whom naught else is mysterious except God, we conjecture that it is the thing upon which God meditateth, self-obscured and centred, and because of which He hath held himself immanifest to us for so many aeons; that this is the secret which God keepeth even from the seraphim.”
— from Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose by Clark Ashton Smith

"Sir, I do not know who you are, but I recognize a man of feeling and of honor.
— from The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory by L. (Lily) Dougall

It was not so only in appearance, but in reality, as modern historians fully recognize.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

And all new prerogatives and attainments that might yet accrue to Paul, and might seem entitled to assume value in his eyes, could only have the same subordinate place:—Christ first, whose light and love, whose power to fix and fill and attract the [190] soul, made all things new; Christ first, so that all the rest was comparatively nowhere; Christ first, so that all the rest, if at any time it came into competition with Him, if it offered itself to Paul as a source of individual confidence and boasting, is recognised as mere loss, and in that character resolutely cast away.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy