For this end I must recount all, or as many as may seem sufficient, of the disasters which befell that city and its subject provinces, before these sacrifices were prohibited; for all these disasters they would doubtless have attributed to us, if at that time our religion had shed its light upon them, and had prohibited their sacrifices.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

By that delightful morning when the hay-ricks at Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr. Raffles had been a guest worthy of finest incense, Dorothea had again taken up her abode at Lowick Manor.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Or do they say, perhaps, that Jupiter sends the goddess Victoria, and that she, as it were, acting in obedience to the king of the gods, comes to those to whom he may have despatched her, and takes up her quarters on their side?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Our Lord referred to this tyranny of things when He said to His disciples, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

“Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then, taking up the dead girl and decking her, as they use to deck the dead, they laid her beside Girolamo on the same bier and there long bewept her; after which the twain were buried in one same tomb, and so these, whom love had not availed to conjoin on life, death conjoined with an inseparable union."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

16. CHAPTER XII Of the royal way of the Holy Cross That seemeth a hard saying to many, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow Me.(1)
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

I had often seen his dead carcase, and, at a distance, had witnessed the hounds drive him across the upper fields; but the thrill and excitement of meeting him in his wild freedom in the woods were unknown to me, till, one cold winter day, drawn thither by the baying of a hound, I stood far up toward the mountain's brow, waiting a renewal of the sound, that I might determine [Pg 304] the course of the dog and choose my position,—stimulated by the ambition of all young Nimrods, to bag some notable game.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

This determined him, against the urgent wishes of the queen, to escape, with his family, to the army of the Marquis de Bouillé , at Montmédy .
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Well, well; but your responsibility for the performance of your duty hitherto, and the unconscientious-- Soph.
— from The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by August Wilhelm Iffland

On reaching Belin, nine leagues from Bordeaux, on the evening of the 19th he found a courier awaiting him with a letter from Du Fargis d’Angennes, the ordinary French Ambassador at Madrid, begging him to delay his arrival there until he heard from him again, as a most unpleasant incident had occurred, in consequence of which the greater part of his staff and servants were now in prison, while he himself had been obliged to leave the city, as his life was no longer safe there.
— from A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646 by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

I know this, that it would have been a miracle if his treatment had cured my brother, for the first thing he did was to bleed him, the very thing that Dr. Dirkius had always told us was the sure way to kill him, when he was losing so much blood already.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The incident is vividly remembered in local tradition, from which many picturesque details are added, especially with reference to the trial, the subsequent righting of young David Haddock, and the ultimate punishment of Davis, on which points Glanvill is rather unsatisfactory.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

Hence the ardor of our public disputes; for no man views, without concern, a great moral principle darkened by party motives, or placed in risk by accident: hence the dignity and benefit of our public disputes; hence, also, their ultimate relation to the Christian faith.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

On glancing at the group who knelt around the door, he appeared to understand the melancholy cause which brought them together.
— from The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton