He then went in search of the missionaries, and coming to a Roman Catholic priest he expressed a wish to be instructed and baptized, but the priest told him that he must first of all lay aside the New Testament.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Thus in the Encounter Bay tribe of South Australia there is, or used to be, a “superstition which obliges a woman to separate herself from the camp at the time of her monthly illness, when if a young man or boy should approach, she calls out, and he immediately makes a circuit to avoid her.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

THERE are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

She is no more mysterious and complex than any other person.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

But this just retaliation would not bring Ayrton back to life, and from the examination of the footprints left in the ground, they must, alas! conclude that all hopes of ever seeing him again must be abandoned.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

3.] Note 3 ( return ) [ It seems to me, from what Moses, Exodus 16:18, St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 8:15, and Josephus here say, compared together, that the quantity of manna that fell daily, and did not putrefy, was just so much as came to an omer apiece, through the whole host of Israel, and no more.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Petty misfortunes of ten thousand kinds (my heart assail!) both simultaneously flashed through her memory; and, collating them all together, she meditated on them minutely, until suddenly her heart was stricken with pain and her soul fleeted away, while from her eyes trickled down drops of tears.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

As a symbol it is exclusively masonic, and confined to a temple origin.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

His lordship moved a chair towards Alfred, and seated himself.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

The field Medoro and Cloridano tread, And find their monarch Dardinello dead.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

She was once more expecting motherhood, and considered that as a reward for such self-sacrifice the most expensive luxuries were inadequate.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

And there were tyrannies among them, some lasting out the tyrant’s life, others which broke off in the middle and came to an end in poverty and exile and beggary; and there were 335 lives of famous men, some who were famous for their form and beauty as well as for their strength and success in games, B or, again, for their birth and the qualities of their ancestors; and some who were the reverse of famous for the opposite qualities.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Taking it for granted that this was only the advanced corps of a large detachment sent to intercept the party retreating from Powles Hook, Ball made a circuit to avoid the enemy; and Buskirk, finding a detachment he had not expected, took the same measure to secure his own retreat.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

This charming man already called twice a day at the Hôtel de la Mole; the jealous eye of a jilted lover was alive to every one of his movements.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Many a current tradition, and the crude conceptions of the ancients regarding the natural world, are recorded in the Old Testament; but they are not there merely to perpetuate history nor to increase the total of scientific knowledge, but rather because they concretely illustrate and impress some vital ethical and spiritual truth.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent

The heroic beauty and noble proportions of the Mourning Achilles, fully establish the claim of Banks to a high rank as a poetic sculptor; this fine work of art, however, remained for years in plaster during his life, and after his death was presented to the British Gallery, where it now stands in the hall, “as a warning,” observes Mr. Allan Cunningham, “to all sculptors who enter, that works of classic fancy find slender encouragement here!”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

He made a cheerful thing, an echo of the platform before the booth of a country fair, even of a visit to the tomb of the pater patriæ .
— from Pandora by Henry James

[Pg 192] a more varied literary content and offers Buddhist, Manichæan and Christian texts, apparently in that chronological order.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir