“If that makes a judge of rogues, you ought to be a good'un.” (“Let her alone, will you?” said Joe.)
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
that be from thee farr, That farr be from thee, Father, who art Judge Of all things made, and judgest onely right.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
that be from thee far, That far be from thee, Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The President's salary is only 10,000 l. —too meagre for the representative of such a great nation—and the ministers and judges only receive the insufficient salary of 1500 l. per annum.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
While this wicked man of war was thus making a jest of religion, his pious mother had probably put up a note, that very Sabbath-day, desiring the "prayers of the congregation for a son gone a soldiering."
— from Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We have now seen, however, that these indications are deceptive, for the reason that lust as well as love can be fastidious in choice, insistent on a monopoly, and jealous of rivals; that coyness may spring from purely mercenary motives, and that the mixed moods of hope and despair may disquiet or delight men and women who know love only as a carnal appetite.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck
Trot over to the bar an' git me a jolt of red-eye.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand
The relative position of the two giants of the Solar System at the moment when the Astronef left the surface of Ganymede, was such that she had to make a journey of rather more than 340,000,000 miles before she passed within the confines of the Saturnine System.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith
He goes on to distinguish between justice of men or manners, and justice of actions; whereby in the one case men are just or righteous , and in the other, guiltless .
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Other raindrops join on the ground to form rivulets that trickle along until they meet and join other rivulets; and all go on together as a brook.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne
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