Peace shall come in one day which is known to the Lord; which shall be neither day nor night,(1) but light eternal, infinite clearness, steadfast peace, and undisturbed rest.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

About three o’clock two elderly women arrived, to whom the Lambertini eagerly introduced Count “Six-times.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The conception of this couplet and the lines which Fitzdottrel speaks below was later elaborated in Cocklorrel’s song in the Gipsies Metamorphosed .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

This would point rather to a deficiency of the fat-soluble vitamine, as these substances could have little effect in curing scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The London edition is correct: seven bells is 3:30 in the afternoon.
— from The Blue Lagoon: A Romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

CHAPTER IV POKING ABOUT There are moments in life, as one might think, when that which is within us, busy about its secret affair, lets escape into consciousness some hint of a fortunate thing ordained.
— from The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

It was little enough I could sleep during the night.
— from My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

He resolved upon carrying off the Squire's heiress, and marrying her off-hand at the little chapel which Parson Keith had lately established in Curzon Street.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A green-stone axe was found, as has been stated, near the boat with the cork plug, which lay embedded in Clyde silt at Glasgow.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

Also so much as, not onely, at least, euen, in case surely.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

The hand as a symbol of power was a well-known magical emblem, and has entered largely even into Christian symbolism—note, for instance, the great hand sculptured on the under side of one of the arms of the Cross of Muiredach at Monasterboice.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

His death had but little effect in camp, so estranged is the soldier's mind.
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones