Although it again changed its name, as Pliny states, it still retained its name of Cæsarea as the Metropolitan See of the First Palestine.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Now the chin is numbed, a painful straining of the forehead sets in, or a violent pricking of the nostrils, which are exposed to the wind.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce

Child culture (its need and possibilities) SEE Lewis, H. Spencer.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The roar of the first big volume of water as it comes is not a pleasant sound to the traveller crossing "the drift," the sight still less pleasant if he is not already across.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

In like manner, if you believe that Jesus Christ is not a perfect Son; if you fancy that he has any will but his Father’s will; that he has any work but what his Father gives him to do, who has committed all things into his hands; that he knows anything but what his Father sheweth him, who sheweth him all things, because he loveth him; then you will be tempted to wish for power and honour of your own; to become ambitious, self-willed, vain, and disobedient to your parents.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

This reservation affects not at all the truth of our proposition, that divinity, properly so called, is not a progressive science.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I should be glad to quote the entire address, but as this is impracticable, I will make a few significant extracts: “I do not consider it necessary at present,” said Mr. Lincoln, “for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.
— from The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Charin is not a particularly safe town, even for Dry-towners, and especially not for Earthmen, at any time.
— from The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley

he growled, "a man does not shut himself up in an abbey to take his ease there; a convent is not a pious Sainte-Périne; he retires there, I suppose, to expiate his sins and prepare for death.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans