This epistle, as we saw, is a cento of passages from St Paul.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Some derive the word from varija or one born of water, in accordance with a tradition that Parasurāma created from water a class of persons for special service in temples, and to take the place of Sūdras, who, being meat-eaters, were ineligible for the same.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Bue's ship was cleared of people from stem to stern, and afterwards all the others, the one after the other.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Numerals are divided into Adjectives: Cardinal , ūnus , one , duo , two , &c.; Ordinal , prīmus , first , secundus , second , &c.; Distributive , singulī , one each , bīnī , two each , &c.; and Numeral Adverbs: semel , once , bis , twice , &c.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

We claim, also, that more of those first things that draw the chariot of progress forward so that people can see that it has moved, have been planned and executed by the inhabitants of the 950 square miles that constitute 003 the territory of Berkshire than can be credited to any other tract of equal extent in the United States.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

such suspense Crowds all the pulses of life's residue Into the present moment; and, I think, Whichever way the trembling scale may turn, Will leave the crown of Poland for some one To wait no longer than the setting sun! CLO.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

I see that Professor Roth s.v. adduces the authority of the Amara Kosha and of the Commentator on Páṇini for stating that the word sometimes means ‘the wife of Manu.’
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

If it had been the intention of the American legislator to invest a political body with great judicial authority, its action would not have been limited to the circle of public functionaries, since the most dangerous enemies of the State may be in the possession of no functions at all; and this is especially true in republics, where party influence is the first of authorities, and where the strength of many a reader is increased by his exercising no legal power.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But finding himself too poor to [Pg 26] maintain it, he addressed a petition to the “wyse Commons of Parliament,” for succour, and not in vain.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

In personal charm Emily could not compare with her; and yet—the distinction struck her hard—that was perhaps only true if personal charm merely meant charm of person, for she herself had experienced something of the strange impressiveness which men—men of imagination—submitted to in Emily's presence.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

Justification can only proceed from such a fear and humility.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Those of them, however, who have submitted to the authority of the monks, have adopted a somewhat more modest garb,—consisting of a small apron of cotton or palm fibre, suspended from the waist, and reaching down to their knees.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

And yet their servants have their ordinary diet assigned, beside such as is left at their master’s boards, and not appointed to be brought thither the second time, which nevertheless is often seen, generally in venison, lamb, or some especial dish, whereon the merchantman himself liketh to feed when it is cold, or peradventure for sundry causes incident to the feeder is better so than if it were warm or hot.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

I told him that I would not entertain so much uncharitableness of that Parliament in the 35th of Elizabeth, or of the Queen herself, as to think they did, by that law, intend the oppressing of any of God's ordinances, or the interrupting any in the way of God; but men may, in the wresting of it, turn it against the way of God; but take the law in itself, and it only fighteth against those that drive at mischief in their hearts and meetings, making religion only their cloak, colour, or pretence; for so are the words of the statute: 'If any meetings, under colour or pretence of religion,' &c.[10] Cobb.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

[745] We may notice in this doctrine of Sokratês the same imperfection as that which is involved in the ethical doctrine; a disposition to make the intellectual conditions of political fitness stand for the whole.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

So, too, the luxurious city club has cheated many a young pair of their just domestic happiness, for the husband grew dissatisfied with home and all its poor humilities; whilst a bad political philosophy, discouraging marriage and denouncing offspring, has insidiously crept into the very core of private families, setting children against parents and parents against children, because a cold expediency winks at the decay of morals, and all united social influences strike at the sacrifice of Heart.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Then, from above, The celestial ordnance pours forth shot on shot, With lightning flash and rolling thunders loud, Causing the monsters that into the light Have crawled to swell the rout; and pleased are all.
— from Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel