Besides that we see a Diversity of Numbers in some Parts of the Old Tragedy, in order to hinder the Ear from being tired with the same continued Modulation of Voice.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Not by causing any person to believe what he did not antecedently to these decrees, upon the sole authority of the Council; but by silencing our disputes, and making us acquiesce in what is propounded without any publick opposition to it, keeping our opinions to our selves——A liberty of using private discretion in approving or rejecting any thing as delivered, or not, in Scripture,
— from The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism by R. H.

The first, passed by the Bishop and the Inquisitor for the acts coming under their common jurisdiction, began thus: "The Holy Name of Christ invoked, we, Jean, Bishop of Nantes, and Brother Jean Blouyn, bachelor in our Holy Scriptures, of the order of the preaching friars of Nantes, and delegate of the Inquisitor of heresies for the city and diocese of Nantes, in session of the Tribunal and having before our eyes God alone—" And after enumerating the crimes it concluded: "We pronounce, decide, and declare, that thou, Gilles de Rais, cited unto our Tribunal, art heinously guilty of heresy, apostasy, and evocation of demons; that for these crimes thou hast incurred the sentence of excommunication and all other penalties determined by the law."
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

At dead of night I saw the sun glowing with a brilliant light.
— from Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire by Clifford Herschel Moore

To be killed by slow torture and dangled like a scarecrow simply for pilfering a drop of nectar is surely an execution of justice medieval in its severity.
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

“I said a deal o’ nonsense, I shouldn’t wonder.
— from The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender by Emily Sarah Holt

after the defeat and death of Nauhyotl, it seems that Nonohualcatl, Nauhyotl's eldest son, [V-58] and Ameyal, Pochotl's eldest son by Nauhyotl's daughter, were permitted to retain their position as heirs to the throne which they had enjoyed during the reign of the late king.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Mr. Washington himself had a way of leisurely strolling about day or night into shop, classroom, or laboratory with a stenographer at his elbow.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

ing the reins of life in his bold hands endeavours to goad and drive on nature in spite of herself; this practice has obtained the name of active medicine , of which our British practitioners are accused, by the expectant continental physicians, who, to use a French expression, “ voient venir ,” and the French themselves are so well aware of the imprudence of this hesitation in assisting nature, that they say “ Your physicians kill their patients, whereas ours let them die .”
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

For to the pope's enterprise to revoke or put back anything that is done here, either in marriage, statute, sentence, or proclamation [165] —of which four members is knit and conjoined the surety of our matter, nor any can be removed from the other, lest thereby the whole edifice should be destroyed—we will and shall, by all ways and means say nay, and declare our nay in such sort as the world shall hear, and the pope feel it.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude