Wellsford ( Mithridates Minor p. 4) gives a singular etymology, deriving the name of the Hebrew patriarch from the definite article ה converted into ת, or T and Baal , "Lord," with the Arabic kayn , "a blacksmith," so that the word would then signify "the lord of the blacksmiths."
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

She has been to several houses—not to houses where you would go, I admit, but still to houses where women who are in what is called Society nowadays do go.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

He opened the door, pulled out the Weasels one by one, and, after tying them in a bag, said to them in a happy voice: “You’re in my hands at last!
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Besides, it is avouched by Solomon that infinite is the number of fools.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I do not use the word confident, because, owing to an erroneous custom of speaking, that word has come to be used in a bad sense, though it is derived from confiding, which is commendable.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the sun crept up the sky the day became excessively hot, and under foot a thick, whitish sand grew burning and blinding, so that they travelled only very slowly.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Here again the historian Gomara commits another blunder similar to the one he previously made, respecting Pedro de Ircio, whom he sends to Panuco; for here he despatches Juan Velasquez with 100 men to form a colony in Guacasualco.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Then he beckoned and led the way again, and they came to the police-station, still as clean and cool and steady as before, saving that the flame of its lamp—being but a lamp-flame, and only attached to the Force as an outsider—flickered in the wind.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The longest mourning was not to continue above ten months, after which space widows were permitted to marry again; but she that took another husband before that term was out was obliged by his decree to sacrifice a cow with calf.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

At the sight and sound of that, to her, unendurable act, Bathsheba sprang towards him.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Any time she needed more, all she had to do was send somebody back to put down bets and buy stocks that she knew were winners.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

There was a brief silence, then came the words which made Dick's heart almost stop beating: "Now I'll fix you for helping to run me out of town, Jack Rasco!
— from The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma by Edward Stratemeyer

The end posts of every row should be large and strong and be set three and one-half or four feet in the ground and well tamped.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

And so I was a bit surprised to find—after I had been with him for a time—that every now and then he sort of shrivelled up.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

Tell her not to forget me, and be sure that wherever I am or whatever may befall me, she will be remembered as the dearest, most precious memory of my life.
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes

Of course the shadow of this later structure could not help but fall upon the east window, and to that extent obscure it, but what might have proved a serious defect was [Pg 163] avoided by stationing the chapel somewhat to the east of the older building, and also by not beginning the coloured canopied figures upon the east window until above the line of shadow cast by the Lady chapel.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

Thank God, we are not destined here to see the end of it, but hope then to be in the Pacific Ocean, where a blue sky tells one there is a heaven,—a something beyond the clouds above our heads.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin