We will condense from Philo, Josephus, and other authors.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

SYN: Absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

One day the devil grew bold, and taking his tail under his arm in an easy and dégagée manner, hobnobbed familiarly with the monks, and finally proposed, just for a lark, that he should preach them a nice red-hot sermon from the rood-loft of the abbey.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

She clasped her hands for pure joy and looked up in the sky and it was so blue and pink and pearly and white and flooded with springtime light that she felt as if she must flute and sing aloud herself and knew that thrushes and robins and skylarks could not possibly help it.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I had my fears for poor John; but as the chance that he had to wait at the mill till others were served was more than probable, I tried to still my apprehensions for his safety.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It must be very puzzling to see the good company going to the churches on Sundays, with their books in their hands, and to think (for perhaps Jo DOES think at odd times) what does it all mean, and if it means anything to anybody, how comes it that it means nothing to me?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He only looked down a minute, and the expression of his face puzzled Jo when he said very gently, "Never mind that.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Regarded objectively, it is, in the first place, just possible that they are mistaken concerning the extent of their debt to Christianity: a man's convictions prove nothing concerning the thing he is convinced about, and in religions they are more likely to give rise to suspicions....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

td> Socrates condemned 399 Socrates 468-399 389 Rome rebuilt Dionysius I of Syracuse, Wars of Syracuse and Carthage 405-368 Plato 420-348 Isocrates 436-338 376-366 The Licinian Laws First Plebeian Consul First Praetor (Judge) appointed Pelopidas and Epaminondas (Thebes) 378-362 Isaeus 420-348 Supremacy of Thebes (Leuctra) 371 Death of Epaminondas (Mantinea)
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He commands all moods, from playful jest to tragic pathos, but is most successful in the imitation of conviction and feeling, to which he gave increased impression by his fiery delivery.’—Teuffel.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

There, the mask will fall for me, as for poor Josepha, and there we shall be glorified and happy."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

By Francis Parkman, Jr. Conspirators .
— from Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

Orders have come to advance from Phari Jong.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

In the midst of it all, a policeman whom I knew went to his Tammany captain to ask if Good Government Clubs were political clubs within the meaning of the law which forbade policemen joining such.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Every day he grew worse, until at last just as the commissioners had arrived and Mr. Price was getting ready to show them around in the morning, and give them his papers to examine, and show them the money, the friend acted on the thought which was burning his heart out, and he sent for Peter Johnson.
— from The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart

It reads as follows: “ Paris , June 14, 1787.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed

The golden glory of his blood: The gilly stood Upon his right hand: at his feet The fishers, Peter, James and John, Knelt worshipping With outstretched arms, and eyes To heaven turned: And Maria, his mother sweet, (The partner of his mysteries), And Magdalen and Salome Came thro’ the doorway of the day Behind him, weeping.
— from The Mountainy Singer by Joseph Campbell

Flowering period, June and July.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood