The reason why the Christians here followed the Jews is, because of the prophecy of Haggai, 2:6-9, which they expound of the Messiah's coning to the second or Zorobabel's temple, of which they suppose this of Herod to be only a continuation; which is meant, I think, of his coming to the fourth and last temple, of that future, largest, and most glorious one, described by Ezekiel; whence I take the former notion, how general soever, to be a great mistake.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I never was in such dreadful straits in my life—ship leaning very much on one side, which made me feel like a man GOING OFF IN A RAPID DECLINE.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

At the death of every one of them, we commonly hear in the forest loud and mournful groans, and the whole land is infested with pestilence, earthquakes, inundations, and other calamities; the air with fogs and obscurity, and the sea with storms and hurricanes.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

So the three knights departed, and Sir Percival’s sister with them, and came to a vast forest, and saw before them a white hart, exceeding fair, led by four lions; and marvelling greatly at that sight, they followed.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

2 [A; b6P] for a language to be spoken fast and fluently like a machine gun.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Some years later, when both gentlemen were living in England as private persons, Mr. Thorpe brought an action for libel against Mr. Gore, and obtained a favourable verdict.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He soothed his grief, his tears he dried, [pg 074] Then called his sons to him, and cried: “The time is come for you to show The duty and the aid bestow For which, regarding future life, A man gives children to his wife.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“He is wild, but he fights like a man,” George I, the taciturn, said of his son and successor.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

Hallin and Aldous parted with Frank Leven at Mellor gate, and turned homeward together under a starry heaven already whitening to the coming moon.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Mr. Fennel, first lieutenant, and Mr. Galvin, the master's mate, were both formerly prisoners at Guadeloupe with Colonel Wetherall, and were all for a considerable time chained by the legs together.
— from History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins

It was a fleeting look, at most, gone almost before he surprised it, and, for the most part, Edith showed a seemingly quite natural gayety that helped him to forget his recent self-consciousness.
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

A rusty iron chute on wooden legs came flying, like a monstrous gargoyle, across the parapet.
— from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson

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— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

For four-and-twenty hours Mollie would be drilled, put through her facings, lectured, and made generally miserable; but by the next morning or so the educational cleaning would be over.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey