in the Bull Unam Sanctam has established the corresponding theory, which the Popes openly taught down to the seventeenth century under [pg 490] anathema, that God has committed to them power over temporal things.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

He had his revolvers to fall back upon, so he emptied the magazine of his repeater.
— from The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories by Vaughan Kester

In attempting to throw light upon the disease diabetes, in which there is a loss of the normal ability of the cells to burn up sugar, he examined the sugar content of the blood in different regions of the body.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

Indeed, only the unaccountable reluctance of 'others' to be utterly sacrificed has ensured their perpetuity."
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

But he had given out that he was quitting opium; he dared not indecently ignore his own declarations, and the expectations of his friends, by unceremoniously suspending his efforts to quit, and plunging at once and unrestrained to his fullest depth into opium; he must prepare the way, he must break the fall; and this he did in the “Confessions.”
— from Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate by Anonymous