For either they must confess (which they fain would not) that the will which leads to our church is good, as well as theirs, who have received and are held by the mysteries of theirs: or they must suppose two evil natures, and two evil souls conflicting in one man, and it will not be true, which they say, that there is one good and another bad; or they must be converted to the truth, and no more deny that where one deliberates, one soul fluctuates between contrary wills.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

rose-bay trees take thy way; On thy right hand a crown is hanging, wove Of mournful everlastings; nor astray Thine eyes scarce raising, fearing to behold
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

Disparity of years was in this case no drawback but his advantage, since to that disparity Darrell owed the established name and the eminent station which made Honoria think she elevated her own self in preferring him.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Fine examples of irrigating ditches were found at the extreme northern and the extreme southern limits of the region here treated, and there is a fair presumption that other examples occur in the intermediate country.
— from Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 by Cosmos Mindeleff

They had been awaiting her there a long time, every now and then emitting short, impatient sounds, half whine, half yelp.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Besides those wonderful Masterpieces of Art and Genius, which each has given Us; They are the Authors of other Works very unworthy of them: But with this Difference; that in Jonson ’s bad Pieces we don’t discover one single Trace of the Author of the Fox and Alchemist : but in the wild extravagant Notes of Shakespeare , you every now and then encounter Strains xxxiv that recognize the divine Composer.
— from Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald

Beyond the earth, beyond the ocean, live the giants; but neither on the earth, nor in the earth, nor above the earth s there any living thing."
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

In addition to this the air was filled with vapor, while every now and then earthquake shocks were again felt.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

The qualities of art are nowhere so prominently expressed, nowhere aid the effect so much, as in the great Roman master.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

Next day the old man was more silent and reserved than before, but every now and then Estein saw that his eyes followed him, and the few words he spoke were couched in a kindlier manner.
— from Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

We now enter Northport, at the eastern side of Big Bay; and the land, on every hand, tells of comfort and thrift, and quiet peace.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff