“The guides said, ‘These when on earth kept the faith, and with undivided hearts served the Buddha, and so have escaped the Eight Sorrows and the Ten Punishments, and are now in the home of the happy, which is called heaven.’
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor’s searchers.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

My greatest fear was for my eyes, which I should have lost if I had not suddenly thought of the pair of spectacles which had escaped the Emperor’s searchers.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He turned himself especially to Erling Skakke, and said, what was true, that no man in the army had more understanding and knowledge in fighting battles, although some were more hot.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles, in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Now, who does not hereby comprehend,—unless he has preferred to imitate such gods rather than by divine grace to withdraw himself from their fellowship,—who does not see how eagerly these evil spirits strive by their example to lend, as it were, divine authority to crime?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It has, however, erased the external signs which formerly distinguished the members of one race from those of another.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There had ensued, throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland, a great bustle of elections, the Major-Generals in England and the Councils in Scotland and Ireland exerting themselves to secure the return of Oliverians, and the Protector and his Council by no means easy as to the result.
— 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

For if a shaft is vertical, there is a triangle with a right angle, which the Greeks call ὀρθογώνιον and this, according to the inequalities of the mountain slope, has either two equal sides or three unequal sides.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Is that poor old woman to have only half enough to eat, so that you may read twice as much Virgil?"
— from What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton

But she shall yet see that her prayer has not been in vain, but that it has exorcised the evil spirits.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

En bróðer viganda scal bœta brœðr hins dauða bróðor baug, ef hann er til, ellar scal vigande bœta.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

To this lonely cabin in the woods, he took his bride and they lived there until August, 1853, eking out an existence like the other pioneers, chopping wood, cutting piles for shipment, living on anyhow, but always managing to have enough to eat, such as it was, with plenty of pure spring water.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

After Jo had thought awhile, he continued:— “I need not rehearse the story of my courtship and marriage—you are familiar with that, and you know that I have been very contented and happy, except that ever since I have known Mateel, I have noticed an indifference which often humiliated me, but which I have excused for a hundred reasons, and tried to think little of.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe