Et fist Messires Marcs : 'Encore la créance des Bacsi qui dysent que n'y a ne Diex Eternel ne Juge des homes, ains il est une certeinne chose laquex s'apelle Kerma .'[15] "Une autre foiz avint que disoit un des filsoufes à Monseignour Marc : 'Diex n'existe mie jeusqu'ores, ainçois il se fait desorendroit.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But so long as a National debt exists no use has been found for it more conducive to the general prosperity than making it the basis of a banking system in which flexibility and safety are combined to a degree never before enjoyed in this country and never excelled in any other.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

Men stand wondering, but Swanhild cries aloud: “Nobly done, Eric! nobly done!
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“We lack not a variety—as wild-duck shooting, and fishing; and we have a new decoy establishment not far off.
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

Upon my soul I cannot put it out of my head!—Had you heard me remonstrate what a horrid thing it would be to have marriage destroyed, and us honest fellows turned loose among the virgins, from whom we should catch and ravish each a new damsel every new day, and had you seen what a fine serious undertaker's face I put upon the business, your heart would have chuckled!
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

"And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink."
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

[Pg 7] audisset nova docere, et novis rationibus dubia definire dubitaret, quod eum Deus novi luminis radiis illustrasset, qui statim tam certi c[oe]pisset esse judicii, ut non dubitaret novas opiniones docere et scribere, quas Deus dignatus esset noviter inspirare."
— from On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Physical consequences that lasted for three days accompanied the hallucination; and the man 'was blind, not seeing the sun, and neither did eat nor drink.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

that Fontaine speaks in these lines, addressed in 1688 to the Prince de Conti: Pour nouvelles de l’Italie Le pape empire tons les jours— Expliquez, seigneur, ce discours Du coté de la maladie: Car aucun Saint-pere autrement Ne doit empirer nullement Celai-ci, véritablement.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various