These contrivances oblige them to run into a real and ruinous servitude, in order to avoid a supposed restraint, that might be attended with advantage.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The priest reproved him gently for returning such an answer, and when he saw that the priest was displeased, he said, "On account of your love to me, and the favour you have done me, I wish to prove to you this point, that all religious reverence and worship and service to any but God, is vain; for it is said, 'He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,' and I have to beg of you, that you will continually search the holy scriptures, and pray as David prayed, 'Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.'"
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

a razing as respects spiritual state, a counter process to religious advancement by apostolic instrumentality, 2 Co. 10.8; 13.10: from Καθαιρέω, ῶ, ( κατά & αἰρέω ) ήσω, & καθελω, καθεῖλον, to take down, Mat. 15.36, 46.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

“All right, all right,” said Vronsky, taking the reins.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, An awful rule, and right supremacy; And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

"Budhism is a rationalistic and reform system as compared with Brahminism.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

“All right, all right,” said his master, yawning.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As also to the poor scholars in the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge the sum of £200; of which, her last will and testament, she made her sons, Thomas Smith, late sheriff of London, and Richard and Robert Smith, her executors, who have performed the same according to her godly and charitable mind.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

He had taken the trouble to write to the Secretary of Excise to know if his memorial had been laid before them, and supported by Mr. Chevydale, who, he said, knew the circumstances, and received a reply, stating that no such memorial had been sent, and that Mr. Chevydale had taken no steps in the matter whatsoever.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Now when Arriguccio undid the bedroom door, the lady awoke, and finding the pack-thread cut loose from her toe, saw at a glance that her trick was discovered; and hearing Arriguccio running after Ruberto, she forthwith got up, foreboding what the result was like to be, and called her maid, who was entirely in her confidence: whom she so plied with her obsecrations that at last she got her into bed in her room, beseeching her not to say who she was, but to bear patiently all the blows that Arriguccio might give her; and she would so reward her that she should have no reason to complain.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

On a headland near Plymouth lived "Aunt Rachel," a reputed seer, who made a scant livelihood by forecasting the future for such seagoing people as had crossed her palm.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

She proved to be a retiring and rather shy young woman, but she was very beautiful and her personality was most attractive.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

This brought me back to the words of David, who seemed to think that the searching and cleansing must come from God and not from man alone, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me!”
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The painter, notwithstanding his skill, overcome by the reality, or, perhaps, from a suppressed sense of humour, had not been able to give the husband on the canvas that air of awful rule and right supremacy which indicates the full possession of domestic authority.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

But Aristobulus relied, and rightly so, upon the piety of the Judæan besiegers, who would not dare refuse the required victims for the altar.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Anxious to know who the man was, he sent a note, marked private, to Miss Bull, and received a reply stating that Mr. Bawdsey was a new boarder, and, so far as she knew, a gentleman who lived on his income.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume