The wicked Dionyza believed, from her servant's report, that Marina was really dead, and so she put up a monument to her memory, and showed it to King Pericles, when after long years of absence he came to see his much-loved child.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Whosoever speaketh a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not bee forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come:" Where he will have Purgatory to be the World to come, wherein some sinnes may be forgiven, which in this World were not forgiven: notwithstanding that it is manifest, there are but three Worlds; one from the Creation to the Flood, which was destroyed by Water, and is called in Scripture the Old World; another from the Flood to the day of Judgement, which is the Present World, and shall bee destroyed by Fire; and the third, which shall bee from the day of Judgement forward, everlasting, which is called the World To Come; and in which it is agreed by all, there shall be no Purgatory; And therefore the World to come, and Purgatory, are inconsistent.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He is sometimes seen in a chariot of gold, drawn by four black horses, and wearing on his head a helmet made for him by the Cyclops, which rendered the wearer invisible.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Search every cavern in the steep, And green glens where the moonbeams sleep, If haply in that distant ground The robber and the dame be found.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He pointed to a figure in purple who was sawing a dead branch from an apple tree.
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

George, dear, be free!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The single feather enfiled by the circlet of crosses patée and fleurs-de-lis, which is borne upon a canton of augmentation upon the arms of Gull, Bart., is likewise a derivative, but feathers as a charge occur in the arms of Jervis: "Argent, six ostrich feathers, three, two, and one sable."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

127 FLIES: A FANTASY 152 WOMEN UNDER FIRE 168 HOW WAR SEEMS TO A WOMAN 192 LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA GUERRE 234 REMAKING FRANCE 253 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Play-boys of the Western Front Frontispiece Peasants' cottages burned by Germans 8 The home of a German spy near Coxyde Bains, Belgium 13 The green pass, used only by soldiers and officers of the Belgian Army 33 Church in Termonde which the writer saw 42 One of the dangerous Belgian franc-tireurs 51 Fifteenth century Gothic church in Nieuport 69 Sailors lifting a wounded comrade into the motor-ambulance 87 Door chalked by the Germans 105 Street fighting in Alost 123 Belgian officer on the last strip of his country 134 A Belgian boy soldier in the uniform of the first army which served at Liège and Namur 139 Belgians in their new Khaki uniform, in praise of which they wrote a song 145 Breton sailors ready for their noon meal in a village under daily shell fire 187 Sleeping quarters for Belgian soldiers 206 Belgian soldiers telephoning to an anti-aircraft gun the approach of a German taube 215 Postcards sketched and blocked by a Belgian workman, A. Van Doorne 229
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

Our Excise officers enter the cellars of the wholesale and retail spirit-dealers, only to gauge the strength of the spirit, and to ascertain how much it may be overproof, which alone regulates the Government duty; but for the sake of the public health I would go further than this.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

In fact, the length of the hair was, in their commonwealth, a mark of distinction between freemen and slaves.
— from Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

This substance received the name of “Sarcode” from Prof. Dujardin Beaumetz far earlier than its present appellation.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

She was really dressed beautifully for her part, in lynx skins folded over and over from waist to knee, the upper part of her body being covered by strings of wild beasts’ teeth and fangs, beads, skeins of gaily-coloured yarn, strips of snake’s skin, and fringes of Angora-goat fleece.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

The increased vigor of the bush from this severe cutting back results in a dense bush, from which leaves are plucked from the third year in small quantity.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

[31] Yet Theobald, according to John of Salisbury, designed Becket for his successor,— " hunc ( i. e. Becket Cancellarium) successurum sibi sperat et orat, Hic est carnificum qui jus cancellat iniquum, Quos habuit reges Anglia capta diu, Esse putans reges, quos est perpessa, tyrannos Plus veneratur eos, qui nocuere magis. "
— from Life of Thomas à Becket by Henry Hart Milman

Then the curtain was pushed aside, and the fire started up with some dry brushwood from the pile on which they had slept.
— from The Rover Boys In The Mountains; Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer

It shows us how deficient we are in insight, when it comes to differentiating between fatigue and rest in the cogs of the animal machine.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

When very young, at Lyneham grammar-school, I recollect this frontispiece despoiler broke fourteen heads, one after another; in the fifteenth bout, however, he pretty nearly found his match in the person of Isaac Bushel, a blacksmith of this place, who could bite a nail asunder, eat a shoulder of mutton with appendages, or fight friend or foe for love or money.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone