Outside, the cloisters recall the days of the monastery, when the Abbot sat in state in the east
— from Westminster by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Pauline Lucca was one of the few singers gifted with original genius, and she imparted specific individuality to each of her characters, even the most colorless.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

And again: “There is no nearness or remoteness among monads; to say that they are gathered in a point or are scattered in space, is to employ mental fictions, in trying to imagine what can only be thought .”
— from Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey

A survival is seen in the English custom of thrusting slips of bay and yew into the green turf of Christian graves [1067] .
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Wyatt and Surrey inaugurated sonnetteering in the English language under Henry VIII, and Thomas Watson devoted much energy to the pursuit when Shakespeare was a boy.
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Who can tell, when the soul is free from the distress of the body, when sights and sounds have vanished from her, and she is silent in the eternal, with the terrible past behind her, and clear to her consciousness, how the words I have spoken to her may yet live and grow in her; how the kindness God has given me to show her may help her to believe in the root of all kindness, in the everlasting love of her Father in heaven?
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

The same antinomian spirit is shown in the Epistle to the Galatians by the allegory of the children whom Abraham had by Hagar the bondwoman and Sarah the free wife: "For there are the two covenants, the one from the mount of Sinai which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar....
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

The young neighbors next door were soon initiated into the mysteries of the "green room," and their added numbers made the audience seem immense, since it took every available box and board to construct "opera chairs" for the crowd; but every chair was sure to be filled when the new "star," Signora Dexina, was announced to appear before the footlights, and if these latter were but candles left from the last Christmas tree, what mattered it?
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

He managed to wriggle loose after a bit, however, and watched his opportunity made a dart for the smaller one off, and rushed into an alcove somewhat in shadow, intending to escape entirely later on.
— from Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

By far the most important and subsequently influential steps in the evolution of Christianity took place in the course of the century, more or less, which followed upon the crucifixion.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley