From the Chinese ideogram for Sincerity, which is a combination of "Word" and "Perfect," one is tempted to draw a parallel between it and the Neo-Platonic doctrine of Logos —to such height does the sage soar in his unwonted mystic flight.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly-wrung replies.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"Evil are the deeds of Loki truly," said Gangler; "first of all in his having caused Baldur to be slain, and then preventing him from being delivered out of Hel.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Wà pa gánì mahíyus ang paniudtu, paínit na pud, Before we’ve even digested our lunch, they serve tea.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It winds along for a course of 150 miles, passing not far from Tifernum 1267 , Perusia, and Ocriculum 1268 , and dividing Etruria from the Umbri 1269 and the Sabini 1270 , and then, at a distance of less than sixteen 192 miles from the city, separating the territory of Veii from that of Crustuminum, and afterwards that of the Fidenates and of Latium from Vaticanum.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And with songs did she propitiate and invoke the Death-spirits, devourers of life, the swift hounds of Hades, who, hovering through all the air, swoop down on the living.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Now the supremacy which had belonged to the Heracleidai came to the family of Croesus, called Mermnadai, in the following manner:—Candaules, whom the Hellenes call Myrsilos, was ruler of Sardis and a descendant of Alcaios, son of Heracles: for Agron, the son of Ninos, the son of Belos, the son of Alcaios, was the first of the Heracleidai who became king of Sardis, and Candaules the son of Myrsos was the last; but those who were kings over this land before Agrond, were descendants of Lydos the son of Atys, whence this whole nation was called Lydian, having been before called Meonian.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

On this side of it is Oglasa 1499 , and, at a distance of less than sixty miles from Corsica, Planaria 1500 , so called from its appearance, being nearly level with the sea, and consequently treacherous to mariners.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And to prevent any of the distinctions of vanity, they should be dressed alike, and all obliged to submit to the same discipline, or leave the school.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

He told her that she ought to loose her virgin zone, and exchange her austere chastity for deeds of love; that she ought not to give in so much to her inclination for modesty as to be too proud to make a match, and so by her service repair the fallen monarchy.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

{75} "Send down, O Lord, Thy sacred fire!
— from Religious Poems, Selected by Various

PRESTON, WILLIAM Death of Louis the Sixteenth.
— from Early American Plays, 1714-1830 A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830 by Oscar Wegelin

Here, while the professors were conferring on General Joffre the degree of doctor of literature, the students assembled to pass a unanimous resolution against answering the call of military conscription.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

But this is taking a very limited view of the value and importance of hypotheses: it may happen (and it has happened in the case of the undulatory doctrine of light) that such a weight of analogy and probability may become accumulated on the side of an hypothesis, that we are compelled to admit one of two things; either that it is an actual statement of what really passes in nature, or that the reality, whatever it be, must run so close a parallel with it, as to admit of 197 some mode of expression common to both, at least in so far as the phenomena actually known are concerned.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

This enlarging revelation was made clear to the people through the utterances of prophets, the decrees of lawgivers, the songs of psalmists, the interpretations of historians, and the warnings of statesmen.
— from Understanding the Scriptures by Francis John McConnell

Amurath survived but to the close of the battle; his last act was to order the death of Lazar, the Servian King, who, standing in chains, regaled the dying eyes of his conqueror.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker