Poetry is an eloquence justified by its spontaneity, as eloquence is a poetry justified by its application.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or taking themselves off again, the situation is one that demands great vigilance and circumspection.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Then there is the great patriotism, which of course easily justifies, by the predatory example of the Europeans, the idea that this is all in self-defense.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

This circumstance alone would have excited a strong interest in the public mind, respecting the first production of the Tragic Muse which had been announced under such auspices, and had passed the ordeal of such judgments: and the tragedy, on which you have requested my judgment, was the work on which the great expectations, justified by so many causes, were doomed at length to settle.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

She entertained Jean Butscha.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

‘Noa, did ‘ee though?’ exclaimed John Browdie.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

One evening, just before Slippery had finished his last sentence, after the prisoners had been locked up for the night, his cell-mate in a spirit of fun suggested that, to while away the time until the lights would be turned low, they compute the average daily wage their crime-steeped lives had earned for them.
— from The Trail of the Tramp By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Actual Experiences of His Own Life by A-No. 1

Disciples deserted their Lord 125 Disease defined by Jesus 74 Divided service, Jesus’ lesson 105 Divided house cannot stand 106 Division of the prepared and the unprepared 145 Door to feast hall low 153 Dog wounded, cared for by Jesus 74 Double-hearted man 99 Doubt causes Peter to sink 124 Dove symbol of peace 76 Drunkard’s child calls on Jesus for help 92 Drunkard saved by Jesus 92 Drowned child restored by Jesus 74 Duality of the one God 97 Dues, give to Caesar his own 73 E Earthquake shakes Calvary 171 Eat grain on Sabbath, Christines 93 Eating flesh of Christ 125 Education of John finished 61 Effort, not result, receives credit 143 Egotism of Pharisees 155 Egypt, Jesus goes to 46 Elder brother of the prodigal son 144 Elihu and Salome entertain Joseph, Mary and Jesus 5 Elijah reincarnates as the Harbinger 129 Embalmed body of Jesus 171 Empty tomb found by woman 173 Ensnare Jesus by his words, plan to 108 Ephraim hills, Christines in 148 Epileptic obsessed child 130 Epileptic obsessed child healed by Jesus 123 Escape from Herod, Elizabeth and John 6 Esoteric lesson from the carpenter’s tools 20 Eulogises the children 151 Euphrates, Jesus crosses the 42 Events all part of God’s plan 85 Evil, its cause 31 Evil a myth 8 Evil things transmuted by fire 116 Evolution explained by Jesus 32 Evolution of sacred scriptures 14 Exaltation, philosophy of 9 Exaltation for those who live the life 146 Exaltation of her sons, request of Mary 146 Examination of Jesus before Pilate 167 Excuses of invited guests 141 Extremity of Peter Jesus’ opportunity 124 F Failure of the apostles to heal due to carelessness 130 Faith, its power demonstrated 41 Faith saved child from death 36 Faith defined 22 Faith the key to all good 101 Faith, the healing balm 102
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

The Emperor Julian being one day applauded by his courtiers for his exact justice: “I should be proud of these praises,” said he, “did they come from persons that durst condemn or disapprove the contrary, in case I should do it.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

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— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

The emperor Jovian, being influenced by the scarcity and distress with which his army is oppressed, makes a necessary but disgraceful peace with Sapor; abandoning five provinces, with the cities of Nisibis and Singara.—VIII.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

“Very funny, I should think,” said Ethel, “judging by the verses I could see.”
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

E. J. Baldwin bought the Santa Anita rancho , in April, from H. Newmark & Company—a transaction recalled thirty-eight years later when, in 1913, the box which had been sealed and placed in the corner-stone of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, at about the time of the sale, was brought forth from its long burial.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

I should like to search the registers of remarkable cases, to know if such an application has ever been made to the governor of an English jail before.
— from Amusement Only by Richard Marsh

A pair of coarse mud boots enclose my feet; copperas-coloured linsey pants occupy their proper position; a gaudy plaid vest with enormous jet buttons, blanket-coat and cap, complete the equipment of my outer man.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb