To any but a people of the strongest moral and religious tendencies, some of their customs would prove dangerous in the extreme; but no people so link love and religion.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I think I could do even more than that, for Laura's sake. 2nd.—On looking back, I find myself always referring to Sir Percival in disparaging terms.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

They have meekly accepted whatever morals and religion the selfish interest of politics and trade dictated.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Christ commended those who "became eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake" (Matt. xix. 12)—a custom requiring a murderous, self-butchering process; destructive of the energies of life and the vigor of manhood, and rendering the subject weak, effeminate, and mopish, and unfit for the business of life.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Yet since they are the thoughts of one of the greatest of human intelligences, and of one who had done most to elevate morality and religion, they seem to deserve a better treatment at our hands.
— from The Republic by Plato

Mr. H. N. Ridley, in a pamphlet on Malay Materia Medica , already referred to, says:— “Many things are used as aphrodisiacs by the natives....
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

No one approved of the way in which he effected this, but still the result was very important, as it agitated all the States in Peloponnesus, and set them against one another, brought so many men into line to fight the Lacedaemonians at the battle of Mantinea, and removed the scene of conflict so far from Athens, that the Lacedaemonians could gain no great advantage by victory, whereas if they failed, they would have to struggle for their very existence.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"Well, sir, yes," said Mrs. Tulliver, beginning to feel alarmed at her own courage, now she was really in presence of the formidable man, and reflecting that she had not settled with herself how she should begin.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain shall be obliged to carry in his pocket the messenger and horse a six-days' journey once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

"There will be many abodes," replied Thridi, "some good, others bad.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

"'That hadn't really nothin' to do with it,' she says, 'an' you meant all right, though,' she says, almost in a whisper, an' the' came across her face, not a smile exac'ly, but somethin' like a little riffle on a piece o' still water, 'that bunnit was enough to kill most any body.'"
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

The memorialists already referred to, say, ‘We repudiate all adoration of a corporal presence of Christ’s natural flesh and blood, that is to say, of the presence of His body and blood as they are in Heaven.’
— from The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper. As Taught by the Church of England by Edward Hoare

Instead of which snub-nose swept up to me and, repeating the same question, explained it by pantomimic gestures; laying one hand upon the other, then placing her head upon them, gently closed her eyes.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

Lonely as might be her situation in this deserted house, it could not but be a relief to her to feel that her timid mother would shortly be under the protection of her husband, and more at rest than she could ever hope to be away from his side.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

Why he had ascended the mountain and remained there several days only to be crushed to death in the storm, no one could guess.
— from Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh