There is evidence to show that the making of nets for fishing and game catching was as familiar to the earlier races of mankind as it is to us.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

They saw a man, lame from his mother's womb, after forty years stand up sound at their word in the name of Christ; that handkerchiefs taken from their bodies had virtue to heal the sick; that countless persons, sick of various diseases, were laid in a row in the road where they were to pass, that their shadow might fall on them as they walked, and that they forthwith received health; that many other stupendous miracles were wrought by them in the name of Christ; and, finally, that they even raised the dead.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When they beheld the sight they were struck with astonishment, and falling to the earth remained silent a long time.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It was found that the biceps was soft and flaccid, though the electrical reactions of the biceps were normal.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

From 1691 to 1703, seven additional counties were formed in the Virginia Colony: Norfolk County (created from Lower Norfolk which had become extinct and named for Norfolk County in England which is also located on the water), King and Queen County (created from New Kent County and named for the joint rulers of England: King William III, Prince of Orange, and Queen Mary), Princess Anne County (created also from Lower Norfolk and named for Princess—later Queen—Anne of England), Essex (created from the then extinct Rappahannock County and named either for Essex County, England or the Earl of Essex), Richmond (created also from the then extinct Rappahannock County and either named for territory resemblance to Richmond, Surry County, England or in honor of an English Earl or Duke of Richmond), King William County (created from King and Queen County and named for William of Orange, King [43] of England), and Prince George County (created from one of the original eight shires—Charles City County—and was named for Prince George of Denmark, Queen Anne's husband).
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Aside from the tremendous energy required to lift such a [45] vessel free of a planet’s surface, there was also the magnetic field of the planet to consider.
— from Unwise Child by Randall Garrett

[1637] Architectonic forbids that the extreme radical consequences of the teaching of the Analytic should be allowed to show in their full force.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Then he hurried back again past the dog (still on his signal station), and far to the east, round the long curve, with his red flags of danger.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

Next, may your duck and teeming hen Both to the cock's tread say Amen; And for their two eggs render ten.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

Edgar felt very anxious, fearing that the expected reinforcements had arrived, and that a tremendous attack was about to be made upon the camp.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I went into the city hall, and found that the Eighteenth regiment, of my brigade—one of the regiments of my brigade—had received orders to go out to the depot, that there was trouble there.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July