Others would obviate the difficulty by giving to πίστιν the meaning ‘fidelity, stedfastness’: Winer § 1.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

DOR, (?) buzz; "give the—," make a fool of.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

She made frequent mistakes in her household duties, and, like Parbati (The wife of Shiva the Destroyer), engaged in her devotions, began gradually to renounce food and sleep.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

We believe that all other nations of the earth have been directed by God to adhere to the laws of nature, and to the religion of the patriarchs.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Jove's tunefu' dochters three times three Made Homer deep their debtor; But, gien the body half an e'e, Nine Ferriers wad done better!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Was it not the one particle of divine breath given to man, of which he had heard since he was a boy?
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Barral des Baux grew tired of his countess and divorced her, but Foulquet, in spite of his friendship with her husband, maintained his allegiance to Azalais.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

Luys de Moscoso told him, that the Governor was not dead, but gone to heaven, and that of his own Christian soldiers, he had taken such as he needed to serve him, and prayed him to command those Indians to be loosed, and not to use any such bad custom from thenceforth: straightway he commanded them to be loosed, and to get them home to their houses.
— from A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by Knight of Elvas

To be bréefe, the archbishop Theodore, and the abbat Adrian deserued great commendation in this, that whereas they were notablie well learned themselues in the Greeke and the Latine toongs, and also had good knowledge as well in the liberall arts, as in the scripture, they tooke great paines to traine vp scholers in knowledge of the same, so that the Englishmen Englishmen happy and why. had not seene more happie times than in those daies, hauing as then kings of great puissance, so as strangers stood in feare of them; and againe, those that coueted learning, had instructors at hand to teach them, by reason whereof diuers being giuen to studie, prooued Beda.
— from Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Raphael Holinshed

In the Prayer for the Dead six specific passages have been sent down by God, the Revealer of Verses. Let one who is able to read recite that which hath been revealed to precede these passages; and as for him who is unable, God hath relieved him of this requirement.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh