Verily to God belong lands and dominions, and He giveth them to whom He doth will."
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

And the more imbued he became with that principle of love, the more he renounced life and the more completely he destroyed that dreadful barrier which—in the absence of such love—stands between life and death.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

During the continuance of this abuse (which prevailed chiefly in 1762, 1763, and 1764), while the exchange between London and Carlisle was at par, that between London and Dumfries would sometimes be four per cent. against Dumfries, though this town is not thirty miles distant from Carlisle.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The act is, must be, limited and definite; and so must the product—the Universe be.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

THE THIRD STORY Day the Sixth MADAM NONNA DE' PULCI, WITH A READY RETORT TO A NOT ALTOGETHER SEEMLY PLEASANTRY, IMPOSETH SILENCE ON THE BISHOP OF FLORENCE Pampinea having made an end of her story and both Cisti's reply and his liberality having been much commended of all, it pleased the queen that the next story should be told by Lauretta, who blithely began as follows, "Jocund ladies, first Pampinea and now Filomena have spoken truly enough touching our little worth and the excellence of pithy sayings, whereto that 300 there may be no need now to return, I would fain remind you, over and above that which hath been said on the subject, that the nature of smart sayings is such that they should bite upon the hearer, not as the dog, but as the sheep biteth; for that, an a trait bit like a dog, it were not a trait, but an affront.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Dan jika bumi itu warna-nya lain-lain bau-nya pĕdas kĕlat manis banyak kelurga-nya dan jika bumi itu hijau kuning dan merah bau-nya manis rasa-nya pĕdas ʿalamat beruleh laba amas dan perak lagi beruleh anak dan sahya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

It was the last spiritual struggle between life and death, in which death gained the victory.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Yet the old conflict between Light and Darkness has not ceased.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

At first, being little accustomed to learn by heart, the lessons appeared to me both long and difficult; the frequent change from task to task, too, bewildered me; and I was glad when, about three o’clock in the afternoon, Miss Smith put into my hands a border of muslin two yards long, together with needle, thimble, &c., and sent me to sit in a quiet corner of the schoolroom, with directions to hem the same.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The three days flew by like a dream, and she forgot her serpent.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

that we—that you and I, Priscilla——" "That is all buried long ago: don't rake it up.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

It is not so much because I wish to read the book for its own sake, as because winter is coming on, when the evenings will be long and dreary, and one will want to read at least SOMETHING.
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dr. Harris told me that he knew that their troops had had a great deal of coffee and sugar mixed, ready for boiling, of which a good deal had been left at different points near the field, and asked if there would be any objection to his sending out and gathering some of it for the use of the wounded under his charge, as it would be of much service to them.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

He spoke of sins ancestral, born in him Impulses; of resistance fierce and wild; Of failure weak, and strength reviving dim; Self-hatred, dreariness no love beguiled; Of storm, and blasting light, and darkness grim; Of torrent paths, and tombs with mountains piled; Of gulfs in the unsunned bosom of the earth; Of dying ever into dawning birth.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

In 1680, in Britannia Languens , a discourse upon trade, it states that "the laces commonly called points de Venise now come mostly from France, and amount to a vast sum yearly."
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

But Loves and Doves, and Roses and Posies, are entirely out of my line, or rather out of the line of my pencil.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

Between Love and Duty 248 XXXII.
— from The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Every shelf and pigeon-hole was rummaged, but there was nothing but letters and documents.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering