The Holy Ghost imparted by breathing .
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

With the ordinary habit of looking only at individual parts of nature, the general impression being but dimly felt, they are not observed.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

She could not bear that he should give in before Ben Weatherstaff.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Finding the door open I felt sure of success, and I got into bed; but as I found out, it was the signora and not the maid who received me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Now, I prithee, go on in this torcheculative, or wipe-bummatory discourse, and by my beard I swear, for one puncheon, thou shalt have threescore pipes, I mean of the good Breton wine, not that which grows in Britain, but in the good country of Verron.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

There was abundance of ammunition near by lying on the ground in boxes, but at that stage of the war it was not all of our commanders of regiments, brigades, or even divisions, who had been educated up to the point of seeing that their men were constantly supplied with ammunition during an engagement.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

When these preliminaries have been completed, the girl is brought by the uncle’s wife to the pandal, and seated on a stool.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

[1578] All philosophers impute the miseries of the body to the soul, that should have governed it better, by command of reason, and hath not done it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“The following trees are generally inhabited by bees ( lebah ), and then become sialangs ; near the sea, pulei , kempas , kayu arah , and babi kurus ; whilst farther in the interior ringas manuk and chempedak ayer are their general habitats.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

A thin, pale love dies weakly with the occasion that gave it birth; but such friendship is born of the gods, and is immortal.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Soon the successors of Simeon by their jealousies undermined the strength of the kingdom, and when next they went forth to meet the Greeks in battle Basil II found no great difficulty in defeating them.
— from The Walls of Constantinople by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

"By the way," observed Mr. Grainger, "I believe Bessie's in town to-day at a charity pow-wow, reading a paper.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into bed before I did.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Had he been struck by lightning, Frank could hardly have been more astonished than he was at this singular request, and for a moment he stared blankly at the girl who had made it, not because he was at all averse to granting it, but because he doubted the propriety of the act, even if she were crazy.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Having grown the so-called species or varieties, I have hitherto found no difference whatever; and of the hardy species of this genus, I believe B. cordata is the only one at present grown in English gardens.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Men were flying in the air and going in boats below the surface of the water; members of the female aristocracy were dining in low necks at the Carlton Hotel; Mr. Lloyd George was a responsible cabinet minister.
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

A special feature well worth noting is the fact that Army Bills sometimes commanded a premium of five per cent over gold itself, because, being convertible into government bills of exchange on London, they were secure against any fluctuations in the price of bullion.
— from The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood

God grant it be before I die!”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac