And that he might not seem to be outbid by Christ's promise of life everlasting to His saints, he also established purified souls in endless felicity, without return to their former woes; but, that he might contradict Christ, he denies the resurrection of incorruptible bodies, and maintains that these souls will live eternally, not only without earthly bodies, but without any bodies at all.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The ore itself is regarded as endued not only with vitality, but also with the power of growth, ore of indifferent quality being regarded as too young ( muda ), but as likely to improve with age.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Some were covered with tin foil, but the greater part were frankly of a cheap base metal the exact nature of which I was not able to determine.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Corporal Trim, as I said, had made no such bargain either with himself—or with any one else—the fidelity however of his heart not suffering him to go into a house which his master had forsaken with disgust—he contented himself with turning his part of the siege into a blockade;—that is, he kept others off;—for though he never after went to the house, yet he never met Bridget in the village, but he would either nod or wink, or smile, or look kindly at her—or (as circumstances directed) he would shake her by the hand—or ask her lovingly how she did—or would give her a ribbon—and now-and-then, though never but when it could be done with decorum, would give Bridget a...— Precisely in this situation, did these things stand for five years; that is from the demolition of Dunkirk in the year 13, to the latter end of my uncle Toby's campaign in the year 18, which was about six or seven weeks before the time I'm speaking of.—When Trim, as his custom was, after he had put my uncle Toby to bed, going down one moon-shiny night to see that every thing was right at his fortifications—in the lane separated from the bowling-green with flowering shrubs and holly—he espied his Bridget.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Their costly armaments, after a gleam of success, added new pages of calamity and disgrace to the Byzantine annals: twenty thousand of their best troops were lost in a single expedition; and the victorious Moslems derided the policy of a nation which intrusted eunuchs not only with the custody of their women, but with the command of their men 20 After a reign of two hundred years, the Saracens were ruined by their divisions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As the division of labour advances, therefore, in order to give constant employment to an equal number of workmen, an equal stock of provisions, and a greater stock of materials and tools than what would have been necessary in a ruder state of things, must be accumulated before-hand.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I walked on Shore and Killed two Elk neither of which was fat, we saved the best of the meat, one beaver Shot to day.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But the impressions of reflection resolve themselves into our passions and emotions: none of which can possibly represent a substance.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The Climatis vitalba, one of the popular English names of which is virgin-bower.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

It was always possible that they might encounter some one; but it was also always possible to make a rather plausible explanation, or none at all, since even in case of such an encounter nothing, ordinarily, would be suspected.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The south side is formed by a low sandy neck, exceedingly narrow, on which the ostrog is built.
— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

I entertain no other wish.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

In addition to this, part of the manor called “the mere land,” the exact nature of which is obscure, has been broken off and split up among all the fourteen tenants, some holding only 2 or 3 acres, others holding 15 or 20 acres.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

And this provision applies not only to the living, but also to the dead, so that all men who have existed in all ages, who do exist now, or who will exist while the earth shall stand, may be placed upon the same footing, and that all men may have the privilege, living or dead, of accepting the conditions of the great plan of redemption provided by the Father, through the Son, before the world was; and that the justice and mercy of God may be applied to every being, living or dead, that ever has existed, that does now exist, or that ever will exist.
— from An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by John Taylor

thou fiend with heart like marble;” and the loss would result partly from the position of the simile and partly from the extra number of words required.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

After supper the moon rode high in the pale grey sky—but it is so small even now, only what I would have thought was a first day moon in England.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Already there were thorough and exhaustive narrators of what was instinctively felt to be one of the most pregnant episodes of human history.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

By the preaching and miracles of SS. Peter and Paul at Rome, many were converted to the faith, and among others several servants and courtiers of the emperor Nero, of whom St. Paul 12 makes mention.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler