The universe is composed of nine circles, or rather spheres, one of which is the heavenly one, and is exterior to all the rest, which it embraces; being itself the Supreme God, and bounding and containing the whole.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They stood and spoke in reverent guise To Ráma with exulting cries: “O noblest child of Raghu, see, Thy ministers and thralls are we.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

She was wearing a couple of nice chunky obsidian rings in abstract curvy shapes, looking a little porny in their suggestion of breasts and thighs.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

There is no nimbus around her head, no sign of the cross upon her breast; her hands are clasped on no crucifix or rosary.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

John II of Portugal appointed a commission on navigation consisting of Roderick and Joseph, his physicians, and Martin of Bohemia.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The same circumstances which give rise to the formal language of a clan, as distinguished from the dialects of families, produce, on a larger scale, the languages of a confederation of clans, of nascent colonies, of rising nationalities.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller