One of the standers-by guiding her thereunto, she laid her head upon the block, and then stretched forth her body, and said, Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit; and so finished her life, in the year of our Lord 1554, the 12th day of February, about the 17th year of her age.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And, Lord, into thy hands I commit my spirit!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

They live in thatched huts in cocoanut gardens, while the Mannāns occupy similar dwellings in small compounds either of their own, or of some landlord whose tenant they may be.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Why, my lord, I told him I came to visit an old anchorite
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

[390] KROMESKIS OF HARE LEPOREM ISICIATUM THE HARE IS COOKED AND FLAVORED IN THE SAME [above] MANNER; SMALL BITS OF MEAT ARE MIXED WITH SOAKED NUTS;
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I remember, at the classical lecture in the Hall, I could not bear Meeke's superiority, and I tried to sit as far from him as I could, that I might not hear him construe.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

In disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the ship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the case of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut off whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed and hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to what is called the crown-piece.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Thence a narrow passage led into the hall: in crossing it, I perceived my sandal was loose; I stopped to tie it, kneeling down for that purpose on the mat at the foot of the staircase.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

One of the bystanders guiding her thereunto, she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body, and said, Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

This last is the highest in Cornwall, nearly double the height of the Dodman, that glory of the southern coast, while it is far higher than the Land's End and the Lizard.
— from Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

Both these would convert the lime in the hide into chalk, which is both insoluble and inert, and the hide would probably fall, at any rate till the lime was completely carbonated, while hides would remain plumpest in waters most free from substances capable of neutralising lime.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

With his customary apathetic expression, seemingly unconscious of what was befalling him, he ascended the steps; yet when the hangman put the noose upon his neck he cried, raising his eyes to heaven: 'Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.'
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

If he can once trust the Church, if he can once say, ‘Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit,’ then his temptation will vanish, and I shall bring him in—I shall lead him home.”
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

The dress of the townspeople is less individual; the head is covered with a white or coloured kerchief, the dress is frequently black, and the modern blouse is sometimes seen.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

"Then, if the man Meadowes is no longer in the house it could not be he who purloined my manuscript.
— from A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“Miguel once told me,” said Patsy, speaking slowly, “that he used to live in this house, in Cristoval’s time, and knows it thoroughly.”
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Looking instantly toward her, I could just see, in the deepening darkness, t hat her head had fallen on the back of the chair.
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins