FAUSTUS; "He came from Paris to Mentz, where the river of Maine falls into the Rhine: notwithstanding he tarried not long there, but went into Campania, in the kingdome of Neapol, in which he saw an innumerable sort of cloysters, nunries, and churches, and great houses of stone, the streets faire and large, and straight forth from one end of the towne to the other as a line; and all the pavement of the city was of bricke, and the more it rained into the towne, the fairer the streets were: there saw he the tombe of Virgill, and the highway that he cu[t] through the mighty hill of stone in one night, the whole length of an English mile," &c. Sig.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

Even now a place is pointed out on the beach where, under a great heap of sand, there is a deep bed of black ashes where it is thought the wrecks and dead bodies were burned.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

5 [A12; a3] get hold of s.t. to use it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Almighty God, hear our supplications this day.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

So much about creating confidence in the girl; and there are, moreover, some verses on the subject as follows:— A man acting according to the inclinations of a girl should try and gain her over so that she may love him and place her
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Christine herself had a greater hatred of spiders than of any creeping things, and well understood the child's panic of disgust and fear.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

In the Life of the late Patrick Tytler, the amiable and gifted historian of Scotland, there occurs an amusing exemplification of the utter confusion of ideas caused by the use of Scottish phraseology.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

He has experienced a double disappointment—the anticipation of earning two hundred dollars, and giving his old slave the lash: both pleasant if realised, but painful the thought in both to be foiled.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

Then they took the corpse down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate, and erected over it a great heap of stones till this day: but the city remained a heap of desolation.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

"Thought, sir," answered Green, "has only served to confirm everything that I then felt.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

His oath to support all the constitutions and privileges was without reservation, while his father and grandfather had only sworn to maintain the charters granted or confirmed by Philip and Charles of Burgundy.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

I endured dullness such as only a London girl, plunged suddenly into an atmosphere she could not comprehend, much less assimilate, could experience: we had three years of unspeakable worries; and yet, with it all—with its hideous rooms and its cold and ugly passages, its out-of-the-worldness, and its unpleasant associations—there is something about it that no other house can ever hold, and that causes me often and often to dream I am there again, or that makes me hear sometimes on a quiet night the old sound of the sudden clash of the china closet door, the opening of the door at the top of the kitchen stairs—which, I believe, has been taken away now by desecrating hands, and which had a sound all its own—or that causes me to wake suddenly from sleep to wonder at the late return of phantom waggons and ghostly horses over stones that are hundreds of miles away from our present uncongenial abode, and which caused sounds inseparable from thoughts of those dear dead days—days I would have back this moment if I could, if only to live them over once more in a manner a thousand times better than an inexperienced girl could ever do, and use then the experience one buys at such an enormous cost because one will not listen to words of wisdom from those who have lived so very much longer in the world than we had then, and which is useless now, because one sees all too late what one might have done for others.
— from Nooks and Corners being the companion volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret' by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

It is the author's firm conviction, and the military events in Poland and Galicia have only strengthened this opinion, that from the very beginning Germany could have prevented any Russian invasion of her territory, but she did not desire that end, but rather that the fear of Russia should complete the "Kriegsrausch" of the German nation.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

Again success came to him, and at that city and Panama he reaped a greater harvest of spoils than he had done at Puerto Bello.
— from Where Duty Called; or, In Honor Bound by George Waldo Browne

"The princes of this world are gods," he once said, "the common people are Satan, through whom God sometimes does what at other times he does {595} directly through Satan, i.e. , makes rebellion as a punishment for the people's sins."
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith