And at or in connection with that judgment the following events shall come to pass, as we have learned: Elias the Tishbite shall come; the Jews shall believe; Antichrist shall persecute; Christ shall judge; the dead shall rise; the good and the wicked shall be separated; the world shall be burned and renewed.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

‘The four elder sisters cast down their eyes as if abashed by the holy man’s reproof, but Alice raised hers, and bent them mildly on the friar.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A strong memorial, asking for equal social, civil and political rights for women and based on the guarantees of the Declaration of Independence, was prepared by a committee consisting of Miss Anthony, Mr. Phillips and seven others, to be presented to every legislature in the Union.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

there are two distinct sets of stamens the 1st or principal consist of four, the filaments of which are capillary, erect, inserted on the top of the germ alternately with the petals, equal short, membranous; the anthers are also four each being elivated with it's fillament, they are linear and reather flat, erect sessile, cohering at the base, membranous, longitudinally furrowed, twise as long as the fillament naked, and of a pale perple colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" "Hinc igitur, praeter pure mathematica et phantasiae subjecta, collegi quaedam metaphysica solaque mente perceptibilia, esse admittenda et massae materiali principium quoddam superius et, ut sic dicam, formale addendum: quandoquidem omnes veritates rerum corporearum ex solis axiomatibus logisticis et geometricis, nempe de magno et parvo, toto et parte, figura et situ, colligi non possint; sed alia de causa et effectu, actioneque et passione, accedere debeant, quibus ordinis rerum rationes salventur.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ante currum miserrimî captîvî, rêgês prîncipêsque superâtârum gentium, catênîs vînctî, prôgrediêbantur; et vîgintî quattuor lîctôrês 8 laureatâs fascîs ferentês et signiferî currum Caesaris comitâbantur.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Note 129 ( return ) [ i.e. that the Hellenes borrowed these divinities from Egypt, see ch. 43 ff.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

She had smiled at his words, but within herself she felt excitement, scepticism, compassion, and something she did not understand at all.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Of this world's blessings her life had been full, except she could not reconcile some of her late experiences.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

She says thar' ain't no use in bein' free ef she can't do what she pleases: they set her free Chrismus 'fo' las'.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

But meanwhile the waxing flood, swollen from every moorland hollow and from every spouting crag, had dashed away all icy fetters, and was rolling gloriously.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

A second volley from either side crashed into the negroes racing towards the fort.
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

" "Jimmy and I will eat our way in fast enough," said Carrie, laughing; and Jimmy at that moment appeared with two boy friends, whom he had brought home to dinner.
— from The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

CHAPTER XXX THE TWO HEIGHTS Dennis went home in a strange tumult of hopes and fears, but hope predominated, for evidently she cared little for Mr. Mellen.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

In Egypt grew as to sustain them all; Yet from one town thereof came all that train, A town in people to huge shires equal, That did a thousand streets and more contain, Great Caire it hight, whose commons from each side Came swarming out to war, Campson their guide.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso