In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such-like easily-conquered adversaries to contend with, and had to make his way merely through gates of iron and brass and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie, and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Here, at length, they [Pg 249] perhaps perceived how much power unclean spirits, when held to be gods, exercise over the minds of men.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

By the grace of ‘There is no god but God,’” etc.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

You being a Gentleman that have had the Advantage of a liberal Education , and being generally esteemed a Man of Letters , I believe it will be needless for me to explain to you the Nature of Repentance and Faith in Christ, they being so fully and so often mentioned in the Scriptures, that you cannot but know them.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Note 20 ( return ) [ Omnium harum gentium insigne, rotunda scuta, breves gladii, et erga rages obsequium.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Therefore whatsoever obedience was yeelded to any of the Judges, (who were men chosen by God extraordinarily, to save his rebellious subjects out of the hands of the enemy,) it cannot bee drawn into argument against the Right the High Priest had to the Soveraign Power, in all matters, both of Policy and Religion.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It was a remarkable face, bold gray eyes, a strong, short-clipped, grizzled moustache, a square, projecting chin, and a humorous mouth.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

That, far from being greatly exercised thereat, he had been only grieved to see so enthusiastic and chivalrous an antagonist wasting his zeal in a hopeless work.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

“When setting the nooses ( bubohkan pĕrindu jĕrat ) say, addressing the deer as before:— “Be filled with yearning, be filled with longing, As the Holy Basil grows even to a rock, Be filled with yearning as you sit, be filled with yearning as you go, Fast-bound by love of this noose of mine.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

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— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The part to be performed by the British government embraced a double object.
— from History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy. by F. G. (Felix Gregory) De Fontaine

To my surprise she was no more than a girl; but a girl with a face of surpassing beauty of the ripest southern type, and her eyes, large, luminous, dark brown glorious eyes, rested on my face with a look of intense concern and glowing interest.
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

Wait until they are close up, then give them a few rounds; but go easy on the ammunition—we haven't any too much.” Pesita, expecting no resistance, rode boldly into the ranchyard.
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

since the heroic heart Within thee must be great enough to burst Those trammels buckling to the baser part Thy saintly peers in Rome, who crossed and cursed With the same finger.
— from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A moment later he saw a tall and beautiful girl enter the parlors upon the arm of a gentleman who was evidently her father.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

All the best gymnastic exercises centre in the development of activity in the muscles concerned in keeping the chest elevated and harmoniously expanded.
— from How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

You will see some day, if you do not scorn to enter my house and if you gain her friendship—and I doubt not that you will, albeit it is not granted to every one—she will be glad enough to complain of my dealings in this matter—mine, her own son’s, although on other points she is wont to praise my virtues over-loudly.”
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

197 “Perhaps you will be good enough to give a name to your fictitious being?”
— from A Dixie School Girl by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

Mr Lawrie and Tidy dragged the boatswain to the centre of the raft, and it was only by great exertions they held themselves and him on.
— from The South Sea Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston