“‘Tis you who are in error,” replied the archdeacon, gravely.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Rich men sin, and I eat root.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.” She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned blue.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

So spake the old Serpent doubting, and from all With clamour was assur'd thir utmost aid At his command; when from amidst them rose Belial the dissolutest Spirit that fell 150 The sensuallest, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus, and thus advis'd. Set women in his eye and in his walk, Among daughters of men the fairest found; Many are in each Region passing fair As the noon Skie; more like to Goddesses Then Mortal Creatures, graceful and discreet, Expert in amorous Arts, enchanting tongues Perswasive, Virgin majesty with mild And sweet allay'd, yet terrible to approach, 160 Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangl'd in Amorous Nets.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The vigorous products of nature” (such is their view) “are weakened and in every respect debased, when robbed of their flesh and blood by frigid technicalities.”
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Narrent res immundas vetulae, ex quibus abominationem incurrat, et res [5680] sordidas et, hoc assiduent .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Nor could there have been that number of Jews in Jerusalem to be destroyed in this siege, as will be presently set down by Josephus, but that both Jews and proselytes of justice were just then come up out of the other countries of Galilee, Samaria, Judea, and Perea and other remoter regions, to the passover, in vast numbers, and therein cooped up, as in a prison, by the Roman army, as Josephus himself well observes in this and the next section, and as is exactly related elsewhere, B. V. ch.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

This Providence we do [p. 145] not, it is true, perceive in the cunning contrivances [ Kunstanstalten ] of nature; nor can we even conclude from the fact of their existence that it is there; but, as in every relation between the form of things and their final cause, we can, and must, supply the thought of a Higher Wisdom, in order that we may be able to form an idea of the possible existence of these products after the analogy of human works of art [ Kunsthand [p. 146] lungen ].
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Hear him, concerning the church of Ara Coeli: “In the roof of the church, directly above the high altar, is engraved, ‘Regina Coeli laetare Alleluia.’
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The first plan suggested (perhaps we should say mentioned for it is not advocated), we take to be that the missionaries become not only members of the ecclesiastical judicatories formed on mission ground, but also amenable to those judicatories in the same way, and in every respect, as their native members, their ecclesiastical relation to their home churches being entirely severed.
— from Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by John Gerardus Fagg

The ease with which she sang was perfectly captivating; and the neatness and elegance of her enunciation combined with the sweetness and brilliancy of her voice and her perfect intonation to render her execution faultless, and its effect ravishing.
— from Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

The village of Stok, the prettiest and most prosperous in Ladak, fills up the mouth of a gorge with its large farm-houses among poplar, apricot, and willow plantations, and irrigated terraces of barley; and is imposing as well as pretty, for the two roads by which it is approached are avenues of lofty chod-tens and broad manis, all in excellent repair.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

And it is really a curious coincidence that it should take place just to-day, when the lightning has struck the neighbouring houses, that stand upon the same insecure foundations, have been erected from the same disgraceful materials, and are in every respect the same miserable swindle from basement to roof.
— from The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III. by Friedrich Spielhagen

“Why not ask, is everything right?
— from Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia E. Barr

Senator Hansbrough of North [Pg 130] Dakota characterized the former as "in every respect an honorable and responsible man," and read a letter which he had received from Judge Noyes, in which the latter elaborately declaims how honest and upright he is and always has been.
— from The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee

The name of Margaret Johnson does not appear in Edmund Robinson's examination.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Her furniture was of the most ancient description, and in every room in the house there was an ormolu, or Japan cabinet; some of them were very handsome, decorated with pillars, and silver ornaments.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat