But the same Scripture also calls men who belong to God's people "gods:" "I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you children of the Most High."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I left him to his own devices; and going into the grounds shortly after, met Mr. Franklin on his favourite walk by the shrubbery side.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In the opinion of M. Copin Albancelli, the abolition of the oath would go far to prevent penetration of British Masonry by the secret societies.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

As we have already explained, in the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: “Because there is none”; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But that same strength which threw the Morning Star Can throw the Evening.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The play, which required skill and dexterity, was to ride against the broad end with a lance, and pass by before the sandbag, swinging round, could strike the player to the ground.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

But streaks of water, parted by the ship's spur, sometimes threaded before our eyes with extraordinary speed.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

GREENLAND BAPTIZED The same spring King Olaf also sent Leif Eirikson (A.D. 1000) to Greenland to proclaim Christianity there, and Leif went there that summer.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Could he bear that she, for whose smile he would have toiled day and night, to be regarded with esteem, to obtain but one glance of approbation, could he bear that she should think of him as the unworthy being he was represented?
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

As it afterward struck the great key-note of her life, and became the source of every discord or harmony which that life was to contain, so now its force had begun to stir secret centres and to prelude the steady influence which must soon impel and sway her.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

“Yes, I’d rather be there,” she said, “for it seems so dangerous here.
— from Elsie at Ion by Martha Finley

The proprietor of the Auld Reekie Magazine was one of those rare and delightful persons—Heaven bless their simple souls!—who have an inalienable reverence for “genius,” and believe in its moods and vagaries with the devoutness of a saint.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

So never to the Desert-worn Did fount bring freshness deeper, Than that his placid rest this morn Has brought the shrouded sleeper.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various