They consisted principally of casuarinas and eucalypti, some of which next year would yield a sweet manna, similar to the manna of the East.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

They taught that, before the creation of the world, all space was filled with what they called Aur en soph , or the Eternal Light , and that when the Divine Mind determined or willed the production of Nature, the Eternal Light withdrew to a central point, leaving around it an empty space, in which the process of creation went on by means of emanations from the central mass of light.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In his room Severus was appointed general of the cavalry; an experienced soldier, of approved courage and fidelity, who could advise with respect, and execute with zeal; and who submitted, without reluctance to the supreme command which Julian, by the interest of his patroness Eusebia, at length obtained over the armies of Gaul.
— 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

So Juliette must work; she must study her parts, make her clothes and even some of Victor Hugo’s, patch others, keep her little house in order, and spend what leisure she can snatch, in copying the works of the master, cutting out extracts from the newspapers, classifying and collecting his manuscripts and proofs.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

All this was a matter of notoriety in the city, and everyone spoke of it; especially when it became known that Luscinda was missing from her father’s house and from the city, for she was not to be found anywhere, to the distraction of her parents, who knew not what steps to take to recover her.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance—against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Add to this, that pity depends, in a great measure, on the contiguity, and even sight of the object; which is a proof, that it is derived from the imagination.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

At the command, or at least in the name, of a Catholic emperor, the pope, their spiritual father, had been torn from the Roman church, and either starved or murdered on a desolate island.
— 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

All this was a matter of notoriety in the city, and everyone spoke of it; especially when it became known that Luscinda was missing from her father's house and from the city, for she was not to be found anywhere, to the distraction of her parents, who knew not what steps to take to recover her.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I heard Captain Lewis explaining how we would make skin bags in order to carry an extra supply of water with us when we strike the sandy wastes.”
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia; or, In the Wilderness of the Great Northwest by St. George Rathborne

But no: so zealous were they to effect the temporal comfort and eternal salvation of these pagan infidels that they even proceeded from the milder means of persuasion to the more painful and troublesome one of persecution—let loose among them whole troops of fiery monks and furious bloodhounds—purified them by fire and sword, by stake and faggot; in consequence of which indefatigable measures the cause of Christian love and charity was so rapidly advanced that in a few years not one fifth of the number of unbelievers existed in South America that were found there at the time of its discovery.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

"The Triumphs of God's revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of wilful and premeditated murther "—that's something new, is it not?—published in 1635.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

I soon felt, that in this cold weather, I had not done wisely, but made bad worse by sitting down beside a woman who was roasting chesnuts, and eating some of these to warm me, and thereby only succeeded in nearly making myself ill.
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

He hurried forward a step or two, and what should he see, but a magnificent cavalry regiment—gloriously expressive of the courage and exuberant strength of a people—ride past him like a luminous stormcloud.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Call, a chip at each stroke of the wing; song, of soft, twittering, pleasing notes. (Goss.)
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

Nevertheless, I did not find Prometheus as difficult of comprehension as either Schoenberg or Ornstein.
— from Unicorns by James Huneker

While the dinner party overwhelmed the victor with congratulations and drank to his health, Clark saw only the Donna, child of the convent, an exotic, strangely out of place in this wild frontier.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

"Servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit," should be kept in view as to every character and every string of action.
— from An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

Athanasius, who weighs every word he utters, says also, “Let him who will, try the truth of what we have said, and in the very presence of the spectral illusion of the demons, of the deceit of oracles and the wonders of magic, let him use the sign of the cross derided by them, only naming the name of Christ, and he shall see how by him the demons fly, the oracles cease, and every sort of magic and witchcraft is annulled.”
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies