The mountains shall be levelled as the valleys, and the rivers of the valleys shall run blood; cities shall be burned, and churches laid in ruins; till at length the oppressed shall turn for a season and prevail against the strangers.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

"Here is my child; let it rest on his innocent hand.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prometheus of Caucasus (600 B. C.) likewise is represented as "suffering and descending into hell, rising again from the dead, and ascending to heaven."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Hence people’s minds were unsettled, and the churches left in ruins.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

But in the middle of the day, being full of cracks, and the air also being less elastic, it had completely lost its resonance, and probably fishes and muskrats could not then have been stunned by a blow on it.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

A white glass plate, mounted on a stand is of use in diffusing direct sunlight so as to make it available for photographic purposes, and three discs of yellow, blue and green glass are provided which may be inserted over the iris-diaphragm of the condenser when colored light is required.
— from Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus: Catalogue No. 40 by Ernst Leitz

Henry, Matthew , a Nonconformist divine; was minister at Hackney, London; was the author of a commentary long in repute among pious evangelical people, and to some extent still, as a practical and devotional guide in the study of the Scriptures (1662-1714).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

To House Rent, Coal, Candles, Stationary, tear and wear of Boats, and Rewards for meritorious Services 300 0 0 Total 1000 0 0 Towards defraying this expence, the fees which would be received, and the penalties inflicted for minor offences, under the Legislative regulations hereafter to be proposed, would go a certain length in reducing the expences of the three Police Institutions.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

Her Majesty’s ministers cannot but be aware that the knowledge necessary for governing a foreign country, and in particular a country like India, requires as much special study as any other profession, and cannot possibly be possessed by any one who has not devoted a considerable portion of his life to the acquisition of it.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

—The cleanliness, convenience, high efficiency, and comparatively low internal resistance of the dry cell has brought it into great favor in the last few years.
— from A-B-C of Electricity by Wm. H. (William Henry) Meadowcroft

The first thing a good caddie learns is repression.
— from Fore! by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

He is consequently living in retirement at Flushing, in a position hardly above that of a private gentleman.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq