That the knowledge of law and the setting it forth were even now a means of recommendation to the people and of attaining offices of state, may be readily conceived, although the story, that the first plebeian pontifex Publius Sempronius Sophus (consul 450), and the first plebeian pontifex maximus Tiberius Coruncanius (consul 474), were indebted for these priestly honours to their knowledge of law, is probably rather a conjecture of posterity than a statement of tradition.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

For nine years she had enjoyed not a moment of repose.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II by John Lothrop Motley

[Pg 128] Here was Dullman, the broker, who looked as demure As if a false key had unlocked the shop door: He seemed to enjoy not a moment of rest, So unhappy to be—far away from his chest.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

As was expected, not a mile of rail having been laid, the work was suspended in June, and indefinitely postponed.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

"Yes, he speaks of it as a spiritual experience; not a mere outward reformation, but an inward spiritual experience, and when he says buried with him by baptism he means a baptism of the Spirit."
— from Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. (Eldridge Burwell) Hatcher

The more I examined their story, the more I was confirmed in my opinion: and with regard to Henry, one consequence I could not help drawing; that we have either no authentic memorials of Richard's crimes, or, at most, no account of them but from Lancastrian historians; whereas the vices and injustice of Henry are, though palliated, avowed by the concurrent testimony of his panegyrists.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole