But how could a parent rely on spiritual power to save a child about to fall into the fire?
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

“Then why not let me take you there instead of to the convent?” “Willingly, if you had brought your barge-load of armed men, but in Sayn Castle I am helpless, commanding a peaceful retinue of servants who, although devoted to me, are useless when it comes to defense.”
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

When there has come a profound revival of spiritual religion, and, consequently, a loftier and more exacting moral standard, there will be a wonderful conversion of destructive forces in the personal and national life.
— from The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

Timbers Top Are the upper Timbers in the Frame of a Ship, forming her Sides, &c. Tin Plates; Double and Single Are used for lining the Bread, Cook, and Powder Rooms of Ships, covering the Tops of their Galleries, and for fining Oars, &
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

Nor was Leofric an [ 221 ] ordinary collector; he loved to preserve the idiomatic poetry of those old Saxon days; his ancient sang bec , or song books, would now be deemed a curious and precious relic of Saxon literature.
— from Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather

[63] Evans’s History of Scioto County and Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio contains the best map of western Ohio extant.
— from Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin by Archer Butler Hulbert

Was this the curled and perfumed representative of swelldom, whose talk never soared to higher flights than the description of a day's snipe–shooting, or a run with the Burleigh fox–hounds?
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He lit a cigarette between the course and puffed rings of smoke.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

The box contains a parchment roll of sacred writing.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

From them we heard that she would fain have retired into the convent at Port Royal, only she would not leave her son.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge