For both the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are the Lord God.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And where the vices of your fathers are, there should ye not set up as saints!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Choosing a sheltered nook, he piled together a few dried branches and made a blazing fire, at which his companions might warm themselves, for they were now nearly five thousand feet above the sea level, and the air was bitter and keen.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything was finished, and the settlers had only to descend Mount Franklin to return to the Chimneys, when Pencroft cried out,— “Well!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

H2 anchor BOOK V. CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden In paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-waters, Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities, Which too long I was offering to feed my soul, Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul, That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades, Here by myself away from the clank of the world, Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic, No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,) Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest, Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment, Projecting them along that substantial life, Bequeathing hence types of athletic love, Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year, I proceed for all who are or have been young men, To tell the secret my nights and days, To celebrate the need of comrades.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

When the breeze is fresh and the sea choppy, the boat starts in to trawl.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is just as much murder to shoot a sentry for the purpose of releasing a friend, as to shoot him because you hate him.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I went down across the fields, and Tony saw me from a long way off.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

{137} “I only ask for the charity of a few words speech,” she said in French, and then she recalled that though he was acquainted with that language he obstinately refused to speak it, and she added hastily in Swedish, “Will you not hear me, sire, a few moments?”
— from Kings-at-Arms by Marjorie Bowen

“Why, Sultan Mahmoud’s harem; and it is most probably still inhabited by a few of his old favourites and their suites, which are very numerous. ”
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

[9] If sulphur be cautiously melted in a U tube immersed in a salt bath, and then gradually cooled, it is possible for all the sulphur to remain liquid at 100°.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

We spent the whole day looking over the place and went so far as to select the site for our cabin.
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

At last he managed to push his hand into a barbed wire fence and thus scratched his palm.
— from Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maksim Gorky

[123] CHAPTER XIV One night a great, sullen roar reached him through the open stable-doors in confused waves of sound which ebbed and flowed as though some monster were being tortured in fits and starts.
— from Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

If I have not the necessary faith in me, even for a thing so palpable as that, it is just as impossible for me to believe in so simple a fact as for another to believe in the Trinity.
— from Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2) by Théophile Gautier

We believe the fact and the statement.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Then he fetched what meat and wine he could furnish, and they sat down to a frugal meal.
— from The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer by Guy Thorne

She repeated her refusal; he grew very angry and abusive, and at length went so far as to strike her.
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley