Besides the references to the grammars of Ramsey and Knapp, references to Coester's Spanish Grammar (Boston, 1912) are now given.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For when the apostle says, "But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God," [965] we cannot suppose that God there for the first time knew those who were foreknown by Him before the foundation of the world; but He is said to have known them then, because then He caused them to know.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But I found an excellent use for these grapes; and that was, to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, wholesome and agreeable to eat when no grapes could be had.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

He had the far greater and purer glory of resisting a King of France for nearly a whole year.
— from Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by James Boswell

She gets into all kinds of trouble—is kidnapped by a gang of robbers, and kept in a cave.
— from Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower

He has never given our reporters a kindly item of news since he was turned down, but if there is a discreditable story on any citizen going around we hear it first from Silas, and if we do not print it he says we have taken hush money.
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

After a most bloody slaughter of both sexes and of every age, Peace was at last granted, or rather a kind of more guarded hostility clothed with the name of Peace: the conditions of the Peace were settled in your town of Pignerol—hard conditions indeed, but in which wretched and poor people that had suffered all that was dreadful and brutal might easily acquiesce, if only, hard and unjust as they are, they were to be stood to.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

It can hardly be deemed on my part an unnatural desire, that political friends, and candid observers, should on grounds of reason and knowledge, and not merely from friendly prepossession, feel themselves warranted not to believe in the justice of language such as by way of example I subjoin.
— from Chapter of Autobiography by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

“ A grain of rice , a kernel of corn , a worm ,” etc., replies the Ant, as he sees fit.
— from How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games by George H. (George Henry) Sandison

The young girl rose to her feet, for she had hitherto sat on the ground, or retained a kneeling position; and taking the ring, I have casually alluded to, from her finger, she said in her native tongue; "The great and the humble, the rich and
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

He was dressed in a white ratteen gown, or rather a kind of cloak, which I have seen no one wear except him.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins