4 Then God commanded his angel Raphael to go down to the garden, and speak to the cherub about some myrrh, to give to Adam.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

“I must acknowledge one thing,” said Herbert, “it is that Captain Harding appears rather to fear than desire the presence of human beings on our island.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Let Sir Thomas trust to his honour and compassion, and it may all end well; but if he get his daughter away, it will be destroying the chief hold.'” After repeating this, Edmund was so much affected that Fanny, watching him with silent, but most tender concern, was almost sorry that the subject had been entered on at all.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But to covenant to assist the Soveraign, in doing hurt to another, unlesse he that so covenanteth have a right to doe it himselfe, is not to give him a Right to Punish.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Libanius, Oration 29. 220, where he warns the people of Antioch that Caesarea had already robbed them of one sophist by the offer of a higher salary, and exhorts them not to neglect rhetoric, the cause of their grea
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

And William cried to her for pity, as a man who had done nought of that with which she charged him, and related to her all that had passed, word for word.
— from On Love by Stendhal

he was dismissed with the following answer: "Constantius had a right to disclaim the officiousness of his ministers, who had acted without any specific orders from the throne: he was not, however, averse to an equal and honorable treaty; but it was highly indecent, as well as absurd, to propose to the sole and victorious emperor of the Roman world, the same conditions of peace which he had indignantly rejected at the time when his power was contracted within the narrow limits of the East: the chance of arms was uncertain; and Sapor should recollect, that if the Romans had sometimes been vanquished in battle, they had almost always been successful in the event of the war."
— 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

For not only men of moderate abilities, but even first-rate sages and philosophers, as Pythagoras and Empedocles, declare that all kinds of living creatures have a right to the same justice.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The play on his name which was made by his contemporary Herodicus (Aris. Rhet.), 'thou wast ever bold in battle,' seems to show that the description of him is not devoid of verisimilitude.
— from The Republic by Plato

The Englishmen, therefore, who have succeeded most permanently in India have rarely been the most brilliant; and the names which will live there are not those which their English contemporaries have always ranked the highest.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

At last, I (that knew myself a man about to die) turned me towards our habitation, those rocks she had called "home," and reaching the plateau I stood still, swept alternately by grief and passion, to see this our refuge all desecrated by vile hands, our poor furniture scattered without the cave.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

CHESS HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF CHESS
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

Whether Congress had a right to vote money to make public improvements was a question of debate.
— from History of the United States by John Clark Ridpath

In the Beggar’s Opera , in the Beggar’s Bush , as other critics have already remarked, there is nothing which, in real poetic vigor, equals this Cantata ; nothing, as we think, which comes within many degrees of it.
— from Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle

The very air of Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century was alive with mutterings of the storm that had long been gathering, and found vent at length through the manly voice of Martin Luther; and when we find hints that fears of the Inquisition had had something to do with Servetus’s subsequent movements, we are disposed to imagine that the call to free thought which had sprung up on the revival of letters and found out the northern Monk in his cell, had also reached the Friar of the south, and from him flowed over upon the receptive mind of his youthful scholar.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

259 "It is he whom we seek," cried his assailants; "remember the reward."
— from Fairy Circles Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins by Villamaria

He had been carefully reared in a Christian home and read the Bible every morning and every evening in their tent, a sight that so pricked the conscience of Captain Conwell, as he remembered his mother and her loving instructions, that he forbade it.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr