Was that his work or was it possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting his schemes?
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

For just as Socrates said of himself that he embraced the life of cross-examining because he believed that he could perform his service to the god only by examining in all its bearings the meaning of the oracle that had been uttered concerning him, so I think Diogenes also, because he was convinced that philosophy was ordained by the Pythian oracle, believed that he ought to test everything by facts and not be influenced by the opinions of others, which may be true and may be false.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Like Cardenas, Antequera was endowed with eloquence; but, unlike Cardenas, he set no store on eloquence upon its own account, but only used it for his own advancement in the world.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

According to his own words, used on another subject, but laying down, {30} [Pg 256] as it were, the principle on which his own character was formed,—"We would not be un -clothed," he says, but "clothed upon , that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."
— from Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools by John Henry Newman

God holds the world, not blind, unreasoning chance!" How shall we secure the cooperative power?
— from Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

R. O. Bailey unsuccessfully contested his seat.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

Had it gone off it would have sent out a sheet of flame that would have severely burned him and Mr. Titus, but unless complications had set in death would not have resulted.
— from Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes by Victor Appleton

Edward gave out every where that he had not come with any [Pg 141] view of attempting to regain possession of the throne, but only to recover his own private and family estates, which had been unjustly confiscated, he said, and conferred upon his brother.
— from Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

So that we see, although the Children be at home by their Parents, or in the shop, and remain under their view and tuition; yet nevertheless, by one or other, never to be expected, occasion, they fall in to evill courses; which every one that brings up children hath such manifold and several waies experience of, that it would be infinite and too tiresom to give you an account of all the Confessions.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

That he might not [222] seem to be under Cleomenes, he sacrificed the Antigonea, (sacrifices in honour of Antigonus,) and sung Pæans himself with a garland on his head, to the honour of a rotten, consumptive Macedonian.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden