The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the Dies Irae : Recordare, Jesu pie,
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

In the myths, at least among the Arunta, she plays a religious rôle much more important than she does in reality ( Nat. Tr. ,
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I durstn’t do it,’ rejoined the small servant; ‘Miss Sally ‘ud kill me, if she know’d I come up here.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Who devised the wonderful machinery which automatically drives its renewing and refreshing streams through the body, day and night, without assistance or advice from the man?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato.
— from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Many computer experts are ready to help YOU without asking a dollar in return.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

"Say, if you please, that my business relates to Mrs. Catherick's daughter," I replied.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

When a country is overstocked with people, as a pasture is oft overlaid with cattle, they had wont in former times to disburden themselves, by sending out colonies, or by wars, as those old Romans; or by employing them at home about some public buildings, as bridges, roadways, for which those Romans were famous in this island; as Augustus Caesar did in Rome, the Spaniards in their Indian mines, as at Potosi in Peru, where some 30,000 men are still at work, 6000 furnaces ever boiling, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For myself, out of a goodly store, I should select for first honours a repartee, new to me, of Sir Herbert Tree (forgive this dropping into rhyme!).
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

"Yes, yes, I howled with despair, I rebelled, I suffered the most awful moral agony—I was alone!
— from The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac

God's acts are done in righteousness: “Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord which he did to you and your fathers.”
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

The whole country, and especially the peasantry, was completely impoverished and so driven into revolt.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

“The doctor is right, mother,” exclaimed the young man.
— from Damaged Goods The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Eugène Brieux

B Proportion of Deaths, in relation to the Numbers of the Sick. DISEASES.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir

It is made with one end flattened, upon which it will stand, and in the early types its accidental discharge is rendered practically impossible by a sort of peg called a safety pin, which must be removed before the bomb is dropped.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson