Our fathers, indeed, when they were returned from Babylon, built this temple to God Almighty, yet does it want sixty cubits of its largeness in altitude; for so much did that first temple which Solomon built exceed this temple; nor let any one condemn our fathers for their negligence or want of piety herein, for it was not their fault that the temple was no higher; for they were Cyrus, and Darius the son of Hystaspes, who determined the measures for its rebuilding; and it hath been by reason of the subjection of those fathers of ours to them and to their posterity, and after them to the Macedonians, that they had not the opportunity to follow the original model of this pious edifice, nor could raise it to its ancient altitude; but since I am now, by God's will, your governor, and I have had peace a long time, and have gained great riches and large revenues, and, what is the principal thing of all, I am at amity with and well regarded by the Romans, who, if I may so say, are the rulers of the whole world, I will do my endeavor to correct that imperfection, which hath arisen from the necessity of our affairs, and the slavery we have been under formerly, and to make a thankful return, after the most pious manner, to God, for what blessings I have received from him, by giving me this kingdom, and that by rendering his temple as complete as I am able.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Now, by the vast majority of men the ideality of the principium individuationis is undoubtedly either not consciously realised at all, or else but dimly perceived under the form of allegories and mythologies.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

‘But if I am to be so changed that I shall cease to adore you with my whole heart and soul, and love you beyond every other creature, I shall not be myself; and though, if ever I win heaven at all, I must, I know, be infinitely better and happier than I am now, my earthly nature cannot rejoice in the anticipation of such beatitude, from which itself and its chief joy must be excluded.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Immediate are the Acts of God, more swift Then time or motion, but to human ears Cannot without process of speech be told, So told as earthly notion can receave.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

However, the enemy never ceased rolling down their stones all through the night, as was easy to infer from the booming sound. (1) I.e. several ton weight.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

= ðider ðæc I. (ea) n. covering, roof of a building , Chr, MtR, PPs : ‘ thatch ,’ Æ, BH .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift Than time or motion, but to human ears Cannot without process of speech be told, So told as earthly notion can receive.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

EGGS NORWEGIAN Cover rounds of toasted bread first with butter and then with anchovy paste, put on top of each a poached egg, pour over anchovy sauce, and send at once to the table.
— from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by S. T. Rorer

But a fair and cheap government, like our republic, "longs for the light, and rejoices to come to the light, that it may be manifested to be from God," and well worth all the vigilance and valor that an enlightened nation can rally for its defence.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

Even now, consciously reddening, her eyes drooping before the combined gaze of her little world, she had an inward protest of the literal exactness of her phrase.
— from The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

Owing to this there exists no critical relationship between these quantities, and ordinary rules would not seem to be applicable.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Calcareous matter is poured into lakes and the ocean by a thousand springs and rivers; so that part of almost every new calcareous rock chemically precipitated, and of many reefs of shelly and coralline stone, must be derived from mineral matter subtracted by Plutonic agency, and driven up by gas and steam from fused and heated rocks in the bowels of the earth.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Esther never completely recovered from the effects of her sojourn in the cave, but remained always pale and of weak health.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 by Various

An even now can read an' talk like a gentleman—but 'e tells me nothing—Oh no—what am I in 'is eyes but a sludge bump?—'e's above me, 'e is, an' above 'is own childer.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the mean time, fortune, or rather the inconstancy of the barbarians, came to the assistance of the Franks, and delivered Palestine from the presence of an enemy nothing could resist.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

The other men, to whom such a proceeding was entirely new, came round him to observe his operations, and they were much struck with his manual dexterity.
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles