And now the feast of tabernacles was approaching in a little time, Jeroboam considered, that if he should permit the multitude to go to worship God at Jerusalem, and there to celebrate the festival, they would probably repent of what they had done, and be enticed by the temple, and by the worship of God there performed, and would leave him, and return to their first kings; and if so, he should run the risk of losing his own life; so he invented this contrivance; He made two golden heifers, and built two little temples for them, the one in the city Bethel, and the other in Dan, which last was at the fountains of the Lesser Jordan 24 and he put the heifers into both the little temples, in the forementioned cities.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It was a man that built the temple: I have also made two golden heifers, dedicated to the same God; and the one of them I have consecrated in the city Bethel, and the other in Dan, to the end that those of you that dwell nearest those cities may go to them, and worship God there; and I will ordain for you certain priests and Levites from among yourselves, that you may have no want of the tribe of Levi, or of the sons of Aaron; but let him that is desirous among you of being a priest, bring to God a bullock and a ram, which they say Aaron the first priest brought also."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Both are coarse, but the one is great and bold, and the other is damned by its own smallness and meanness.
— from The Novel; what it is by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The March winds were blowing amongst the oaks in Dangerfield Park, when Edward Arundel went back to the house which had never been his home since his boyhood.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

This was met with an allegation by some stockholders that while Mr. Schwab could probably prove that his interest was as large at the later period as it had been at the outset, it did not mean that Mr. Schwab and his confrères had not unloaded at the top and bought back at the bottom.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice

But (as a river blossoms bears away That on it drop) take with them while they fleet— It may be his they are, from him bear sway: But who can tell, since work surviveth fame?— The rhyme is left, but lost the Poet's name.
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

But it can be, and too often is, dismally worse, thus involving a waste of heaven's good gifts of sugar, butter, eggs, flour and flavors.
— from Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

She also referred to a jeweled chalice for my church, but I am [Pg 52] sure these remarks were in no way prompted by any thought of immediate death.
— from The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells

Another favorite method, but a tame one, is drifting with the wind and tide, following a school of fish and [220] taking them by trolling with hand-line.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

I was not so bitter as the others; I did not say that I wished she would die.
— from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart