In Spain, when a Bishop is about to baptize one of the European Dukes of the Devil, he asks at the font what has become of his ancestors, naming them—all heathen.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The explanation has been offered of the English doctrine with regard to sales, that, when the title has passed, the purchaser has already had some benefit from the contract, and therefore cannot wholly replace the seller in statu quo, as must be done when a contract is rescinded. /3/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dafadar Sherdil Khan attempts to rise, but one of the enemy deals him a blow that disables him.
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

What follows is a brief outline of the entire doctrine in it practical use in the progress or the soul from a sinful life onwards; we have found it among his memoranda: "What must one do in order to favor the reception of the Holy Spirit, and secure fidelity to His guidance when received?
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

I would get myself and burden out of the end door of the north wing and steal around the yard fence to the back of the garden without being seen.
— from When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

I could eat but very little and could keep nothing on my stomach, and was vomiting up bile once or twice every day; muscles all gone and too weak to get about.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

While the Council is in session a Prelate named Fidus writes to the Fathers, asking them whether infants ought to be baptized before the eighth day succeeding their birth, or on the eighth day, in accordance with the practice of circumcision.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

We had been rammed amidships by one of the escorting destroyers, but the breach was above the water-line.
— from War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt

A vapoury leviathan lowered black out of the east, devouring the blue, with scudding mists spray-like about his belly.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

Catherine de Medici became one of the earliest devotees to the new indulgence; fashion led the poudre à la Reine through the courts of Europe, where elegant dilettanti vied with each other in the display of jewelled snuff boxes filled with odeur de Rome , or other right puissant sternutatories, not always of a harmless kind.
— from St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe by Edward Vincent Heward