“Let the human race,” says he further, “regain their dominion over nature, which belongs to them by the bounty of their Maker, and right reason and sound religion will direct the use.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

And he holds that it is more than probable that these ancient earthworks when first they were raised, and others like them in various Celtic lands, witnessed many mystic and religious rites and sacred tribal assemblies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Their strong, bare arms swung the long flails in alternate strokes with the precision of clockwork, bringing each blow down on the piled-up wheat-straw which covered the barn-floor, as they advanced, one stepping backward while the other stepped forward, and then receded with mechanical and rhythmic regularity, a step and a blow, from one end of the long barn to the other.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

He said: "It's not so much a revenge, really, as simple justice.
— from The Human Boy and the War by Eden Phillpotts

The anxious lovers mount, and ride rapidly and silently away; and so Dorothy Vernon transfers Haddon to the owners of Belvoir; and the boar's head of Vernon becomes mingled, at Haddon, with the peacock of Manners.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

"This both Mayor and Recorder resented at so high a rate that they exceeded the bounds of all reason and civility."
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

He passed his hand over his face, and there was a countenance for you!—luminous, inspired, magical; a face one moment like to a running brook for poetry and liquid sentiment, the lines and wrinkles on it shifting about and rippling sweetly down into his chin, where they cascaded off, so to speak; the next moment like a mighty and rugged rock, a stronghold of security and protection, on which he presently smote, Moses-like, and the brook of which I spoke gushed out again.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

He made a rapid recovery, and showed himself to me and the pupils at the hospital a short time since, and fully five years from the time of the operation, in remarkably good health, and very little deformed by his loss.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston