When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

H2 anchor CHAPTER IX THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD ore than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hitherto pursued the Covenant upon this voyage grew yet more strongly marked.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Their adversaries of the green faction, or even inoffensive citizens, were stripped and often murdered by these nocturnal robbers, and it became dangerous to wear any gold buttons or girdles, or to appear at a late hour in the streets of a peaceful capital.
— 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

Lute Parsons he gets kind of worked up after about three or four glasses, and he sicked the boys onto going out there, and—” “Going out—where?
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

“At a special meeting of the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital, held December 18, 1855, the following report, in answer to a letter from Isaac Townsend, Esq., President of the Board of Governors of the Alms-house, dated August 24, 1855, touching the subjects of syphilis and prostitution, was read by Doctor Alonzo Clark, Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Medical Board to consider and reply to said letter.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

When taken young from the nest the Magpie becomes extremely tame, and, like others of its race, soon learns to imitate words and whistle tunes, without having been subjected to the operation of tongue slitting , popularly supposed to be necessary before these birds can be taught to speak; in spite of their docility they are, however, most troublesome creatures, and tales without number might be told of the mischief they have wrought by throwing suspicion on innocent people by their thievish propensities, for they seem to delight in abstracting any bright or glittering object that attracts their attention.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

In this State, the peach is always grown on peach roots, the desired variety being either budded or grafted on to a seedling peach, and the resulting tree is planted out when it has made one year's growth.
— from Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson

Sometimes Mardonius would talk with the boy of goodness, of the austerity of virtue, of the death of heroes for freedom's sake.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

The Examinant further saith, That Captain Kidd traded with Mr. Boulton and Mr. Burt aforesaid, for the Quantity of Twenty Bales of Goods or thereabouts, as he supposes; besides what those of his Company with them: Six of which, viz., Michael Callaway , John Hales , John Beovender , Wm.
— from The Real Captain Kidd: A Vindication by Cornelius Neale Dalton

With an oath he picked her up and pitched her like a bale of goods on to an unoccupied mattress.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume

Now, then, for a bit of gossip over the affair of the individual I went to meet on the Quai de Billy, because that little job must be settled at once if I mean to pouch the money he promised me.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

The Board of Guardians of the Alexandria Union are consequently much rejoiced.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 28, 1841 by Various