Distinguishing [149] is here used for discriminating,—whether when an offering is made in a place where it ought not or of a material which ought to be offered not there but elsewhere; or when an offering is made at a wrong time, or of a material suitable not then but at some other time; or when that is offered which in no place nor any time ought to be offered; or when a man keeps to himself choicer specimens of the same kind than he offers to God; or when he or any other who may not lawfully partake profanely eats of the oblation.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He seemed to have come straight through the wall.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Wormwood water distilled cold, about the end of May, heats and strengthens the stomach, helps concoction, stays vomiting, kills worms in the stomach and bowels, it mitigates the pains in the teeth, and is profitably given in fevers of choler.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Within the remote depths of his constitution, so gentle and affectionate as he was in general, there lay hidden a hard logical deposit, like a vein of metal in a soft loam, which turned the edge of everything that attempted to traverse it.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Cardinal Borromeo, who died lately at Milan, amidst all the jollity that the air of Italy, his youth, birth, and great riches, invited him to, kept himself in so austere a way of living, that the same robe he wore in summer served him for winter too; he had only straw for his bed, and his hours of leisure from affairs he continually spent in study upon his knees, having a little bread and a glass of water set by his book, which was all the provision of his repast, and all the time he spent in eating.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He calls it a great and a laborious work, yet worthy of his pains, if he could succeed in it.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

" "Oh, how can she be saved now, unless I marry her?" Boldwood groaned.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

We found Holmes pacing up and down in the field, his chin sunk upon his breast, and his hands thrust into his trousers pockets.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Five days later, as the doctor was on his way home after seeing his patients, he caught sight of Kirila again in his yard.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I was surprised to learn that the batteries at Maeda mura, as well as those at Kushi saki Point, were within the territory of the daimiô of Chôfu, who was however not in so far independent that he could stand aside when the head of the family went to war.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

On one side was Neptune in his chariot, surrounded by Tritons; underneath the lines:— “Neptune with his triumphant host Commands the ocean to be silent, Smooths the surface of its waters, And universal calm succeeds.”
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

I wish you to know, though it can be no excuse, that you are not the only one of my friends by many whom I have thus neglected; and even now, having come so very late into the possession of myself, with a substantial capital of debts, and my work still moving with a desperate slowness—as a child might fill a sandbag with its little handfuls—and my future deeply pledged, there is almost a touch of virtue in my borrowing these hours to write to you.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899 by Various

These last cost her conscience some unpleasant twinges.
— from At Last: A Novel by Marion Harland

Why should this ducal looking individual, with his complete self-assurance and patronizing vastness, have worried himself to try to make them believe that he was traveling third-class by accident?
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

Grace, gentle and submissive, found all her comforts shrunk within the space of her father and her Bible; Thomas, self-willed and open-hearted, sought his pleasure any where but at home, and was like to be taking to wrong courses through domestic bickering: Grace had the dangerous portion, beauty, added to her lowly lot, and attracted more admiration than her father wished, or she could understand; while the frank and bold spirit of Thomas Acton exposed him to the perilous friendship of Ben Burke the poacher, and divers other questionable characters.
— from The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel by Martin Farquhar Tupper

"It is well that you have come," said she.
— from In Vain by Henryk Sienkiewicz

'I loved, I love you, for this love have lost State, station, heaven, mankind's, my own esteem, And yet can not regret what it hath cost, So dear is still the memory of that dream;
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Mr. Dykes almost danced with rage, yet this time he could say nothing for the simple reason that he now recollected having ordered all hands on deck for the purpose of serving the guns and passing up ammunition out of the hold.
— from Captain Calamity Second Edition by Rolf Bennett