In the LXX the verb δογματίζειν is used several times, meaning ‘to issue a decree,’ Esth.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Grand Invasions and Distant Expeditions.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

This taken with honey (saith Dioscorides) is a remedy for coughs, hardness of the spleen and difficulty of urine, and helps those that are fallen into a dropsy, especially at the beginning of the disease, a decoction being made thereof when it is green, and drank.
— 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

Thus it is properly the ontological argument which figures in the cosmological, and constitutes the whole strength of the latter; while the spurious basis of experience has been of no further use than to conduct us to the conception of absolute necessity, being utterly insufficient to demonstrate the presence of this attribute in any determinate existence or thing.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is a desperate effort to work further and to be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He remained quiet until they began their retreat; then taking 700 of the body-guards and shield-bearing infantry, he was the first to scale the rock at the part of it abandoned by the enemy; and the Macedonians ascended after him, one in one place another in another, drawing each other up.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

On the wall above them hung a curious old picture of a monk kneeling in a devout ecstasy, while the face of an angel is dimly seen through the radiance that floods the cell with divine light.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Two long, dark, slender feelers waved about aimlessly in the air for a moment; two clumsy claws grasped the rim of the basket, and by their help a hideous dark bottle-green-colored body patched with vermilion, bristling with points and knobs, and cased in hard, strong, jointed armor, with eight legs flying in all directions, each fringed at the foot with short yellowish hair, and with the inner edges of the huge misshapen claws lined with a row of sharp, uneven teeth, opening and shutting with the grasp of a vise,—this ugly body rose into view before the eyes of the astonished cats.
— from Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers by W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre

This implies a definite experience of conversion.
— from The Art of Soul-Winning by J. W. (John Wilmot) Mahood

Husband and children alike answered gently and with courtesy, for, if there was little else, there was plenty of love in this shabby household, and the little mother was the central figure round which everything revolved; nevertheless, her departure was marked by half-involuntary sighs of relief, as if a disturbing element had been withdrawn.
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

It is a doctrine entirely at variance with the orthodox idea of tolerance only to those who agree with one, or who may live in accordance with one's own views of life and conduct.
— from Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master by William Walker Atkinson

The market is already down!” exclaimed the little man.
— from Jimmy Drury: Candid Camera Detective by David O'Hara

Divide into neat squares about three inches across; dip each in thick drawn butter, in which the yolks of two eggs have been cooked.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

And while Fitz realizes that he cannot, in any degree, equal the famous singer to whom he has referred, he now further praises him, calls down curses on the cause that kept him from following Marmion, and ventures "To sing his favourite roundelay."
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

As in a dream Edith sees and hears all—as in a dream she is led off by Beatrix.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Heavy curtains of olive-green velvet hung straight down over the windows of the music-room, and by neatly sandwiching oneself in a deep embrasure between drapery and window-frame, one found a convenient niche for observing a limited quarter of the garden.
— from The Adventure of Princess Sylvia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Mr. Courtenay was in a dreadful emergency at present, and he prayed to his gods for some one to ‘take an interest’ in this girl.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant