He declared, 'Religion is my essence.'
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

For thou didst daily repeat in my ear and instil into my mind the Pythagorean maxim, "Follow after God."
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The little vine was taking deep root in my existence, though its clinging fondness excited a mixture of love and pain.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

N'oublions pas que l'écran d'ordinateur joue son double rôle: il montre et il cache.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity: that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Those Surfaces of transparent Bodies, which if the Ray be in a Fit of Refraction do refract it most strongly, if the Ray be in a Fit of Reflexion do reflect it most easily.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Then suddenly I was turned completely over, my limbs seemed to be torn from my body, there was a deafening roar in my ears, and a crushing weight pressed against me from every side.
— from Under the Andes by Rex Stout

And in these delicate regions I must ever remember how much my spirit shares in the story I tell.
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

As thou didst rejoice in my elevation, so do I now rejoice in thine."
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

When it was ended I braced myself for the flying journey through the air across that gulf so deep that the bottom of it was lost in black shadows, through which the sparkling water faintly gleamed; and my heart so throbbed within me as I took the bar in my hands, with the knowledge that should I lose hold of it death waited for me below in those dark shadows, that my breath came irregularly and I heard a dismal ringing in my ears.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

The greater facilities for travelling, which this favored age enjoys, no doubt rendered it more easy to attend the Council of the Vatican than it was to journey to Trent, even from the nearest lands.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

But now I'm here to do research in marine ecology—that's sort of sea-life patterns—of the in-shore islands.
— from Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber

"The speaker is a bit hasty," said Patty as Marian sat down again; "we can't furnish any rooms before this debate is concluded; and, though we deeply regret it, Miss Elliott will be obliged to wait for her blue room until the other speakers have had their speak."
— from Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells

The identity of the lady is even harder to establish than that of the elusive Portuguese beauty celebrated during the next century by Bernardim de Ribeiro in Menina e Moça .
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

"Your liberality, my dear Robert, is most exemplary, and far beyond what I had ventured to expect of you.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback