To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Christianity among the jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

We sought the company of each other for our reciprocal consolation, and the want of this has frequently made me pass over many things.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" The son of Nestor then took the mare and gave her over to Menelaus, whose anger was thus appeased; as when dew falls upon a field of ripening corn, and the lands are bristling with the harvest—even so, O Menelaus, was your heart made glad within you.
— from The Iliad by Homer

adventurers aboute y e French discipline, you doe us wrong, for we both hold & practice y e discipline of y e French & other reformed churches, (as they have published y e same in y e Harmony of Confessions,) according to our means, in effecte & substance.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

But how could the enterprising adventurer fail to hit upon something rich, when every clod of earth and fragment of rock contained, according to the assays, both silver and gold?
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

“My room,” she went on as if speaking to herself, “looks out upon a field of red clover at the side, and at the back is a clump of forest.
— from Johnny Longbow by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Busied with such employments, the early colonists had no leisure for military service; besides, whilst Devenipiatissa and his successors were earnestly engaged in the formation of religious communities, and the erection of sacred edifices in the B.C. 266. northern portion of the island, various princes of the same family occupied themselves in forming settlements in the south and west; and hence, whilst their people were zealously devoted to the service and furtherance of religion, the sovereign at Anarajapoora was compelled, through a combination of causes, to take into his pay a body of Malabars[1] for the protection both of the coast and the interior.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

The hard-worked Vicar certainly had no treasure on earth, if you excepted his principal possessions, namely, his pale wife and [Pg 5] little flock of rosy children, and these, of course, were only encumbrances.
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

Well, when the miracles began, Ambrose Rivers, alone of thinkers, for some reason or other broke off from the Church, and started a new "religion" in Littlemore—with a following of six; and Dr Lidcott's letter to Langler was a description of this new flight of Rivers', containing also the following from Dr Burton: "The Chancery, Lincoln, In Festo Sanct.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

The race lives on, conformably with the historical necessity of its evolution, not troubling itself about a theory of its peculiarities; and philosophy hobbles busily after it, gathers with more or less regularity into its album the scattered features of racial character, and the manifestations of its health and disease; methodically provides this album with a title, paging, and full stop, then places it with a contented air in the library, among the systems of the same regulation size.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

“I have had enough of water for some time,” said Whiskerandos; “and now that the fields are full of ripe corn, and the gardens of fruit, 148 nothing so pleasant as a journey by land!
— from The Rambles of a Rat by A. L. O. E.

Great fragments of rock cover all the ground, lie heaped, pile upon pile, jagged, gray, tilted into a thousand sharp angles, refusing a foothold, or offering it treacherously.
— from Gala-Days by Gail Hamilton