In the 36th Chapter I have said, that it is not declared in what manner God spake supernaturally to Moses: Not that he spake not to him sometimes by Dreams and Visions, and by a supernaturall Voice, as to other Prophets: For the manner how he spake unto him from the Mercy-seat, is expressely set down (Numbers 7.89.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I was scandalised, and I told the count that the priest would be certain to go to Udine, and that it might turn out a very awkward business.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Upon which Herod, supposing that Archelaus's ill-will to him was fully proved, sent a letter by Olympus and Volumnius; and bid them, as they sailed by, to touch at Eleusa of Cilicia, and give Archelaus the letter.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I just thought maybe—Say, by golly, it does do a fellow good, don't it, to sit and visit about business conditions, after he's been to these balls and masquerades and banquets and all that society stuff.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The noddings of his plumed head as he saluted his subjects were full of grace and graciousness; the largess which he delivered from his hand was royally liberal: so the people’s anxiety vanished, and the acclamations burst forth again in as mighty a volume as before.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Zimmer and Foerster place the origin of Graelent in Brittany [310] ; and the similarity of the heroes in the two poems seems to be due to a very ancient Brythonic Fairy-Faith.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

And I found that by the Refraction of the second Prism, the breadth of the Image was not increased, but its superior part, [Pg 35] which in the first Prism suffered the greater Refraction, and appeared violet and blue, did again in the second Prism suffer a greater Refraction than its inferior part, which appeared red and yellow, and this without any Dilatation of the Image in breadth.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“This is a very amusing book, and full of that quiet humour for which the Americans are so famous.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

They were ordered off to bed much sooner than they approved on that fair summer night, when the half-moon was high and the nightingales were singing all round—not that they cared for that, but there was a sense about them that something mysterious was going on, and Emlyn was wild with curiosity and vexation at being kept out of it.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I think it pretty good; there’s a blooming maiden that costs anxiety—she is as virginal as billy; but David seems there and alive, and the Lord Advocate is good, and so I think is an episodic appearance of the Master of Lovat.
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is ample ventilation, and by means of hot water pipes, the building is heated when required.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

Decision makers in Latin America and East Asia (including Malaysia and Vietnam) are being avidly courted.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin

Vun of dem shildern bane college professor, and vun a big man in leggislatur.
— from Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick

We first came to a hill on the confines between the east and the south; and while we were ascending it, he shewed me a great extent of country: we saw at a distance an eminence like a mountain, between which and the hill on which we stood was a valley, and behind the valley a plain, and from the plain a rising ground of easy ascent.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

That his father had full confidence and reliance in him, and that his presence was a satisfaction and relief he could no longer doubt; and this was a drop of balm beyond all his hopes; for loving and admiring his father intensely, and with depressed spirits and a low estimate of himself, he had begun to fancy himself incapable of being anything but a vexation and burden.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Barbarossa had an irregular force of fifty thousand men; the Emperor had a veteran army, but not acclimatized, and not much above one half as numerous.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey