35.) in such manner, as they became from that time forward the Peculiar Kingdome of God; whose Lieutenant was Moses, for his owne time; and the succession to that office was setled upon Aaron, and his heirs after him, to bee to God a Sacerdotall Kingdome for ever.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

At which point I estimate that it held more than 1,000 kilograms of gold, in other words, close to ₣5,000,000.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Shake hands with this knot of good fellows.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

‘According to the earlier traditions of the Avesta ,’ says Spiegel, ‘Jima does not die, but when evil and misery began to prevail on earth, retires to a smaller space, a kind of garden or Eden, where he continues his happy life with those who remained true to him.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The following are the directions:—Take chips of wood from the thin end ( kapala? ) of the threshold, from the steps of the house-ladder, and from the house furniture, together with a coat ( kesip ) of garlic, a coat of an onion, assafœtida, a rattan cooking-pot stand, and fibre from the “monkey-face” of an unfertile cocoa-nut ( tampo’ niyor jantan ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

As soon as day dawned on Sunday morning, King Olaf got up, put on his clothes, went to the land, and ordered to sound the signal for the whole army to come on shore.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

‘Old Nunkey used to say that reasonable interest had a knack of growing into unreasonable interest if you didn’t pay up half-yearly, which people often found something to prevent their doing,’ said the prudent youngster.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

While the higher education of young women was the goal of his daily thought and labor, the Kingdom of God was central to all his aims.
— from Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith

Instead of this unscrupulously omnivorous race, levying booty upon every kind of game, to its very great advantage, what do we see to-day?
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

[148] Pyrrhus, king of Greece, and at that time of wide-spread renown, was invited by the Tarentines to enlist himself against Rome.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She would fix her viper-coloured eyes on his, and say with a kind of gimlet firmness, 'I hardly think that is the true interpretation, Brother G.', or, 'But let us turn to Colossians, and see what the Holy Ghost says there upon this matter.'
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse

Hear him as he says: "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein"; and again: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of God."
— from The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine

[reads]:— “Ans.—There are two kinds of good,—eternal good and temporal good.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac