The following are some of the more notable murders or attempts at murder ascribed to the Ismailite emissaries either from Syria or from Persia:— A.D. 1092.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Between the town and the sea, and for some miles above the town, it ebbs and flows every six hours with a strong current.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Mine are the tribes in eastern lands, And those who dwell on Sindhu's sands: Mine is Suráshṭra, far away, Suvíra's realm admits my sway.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It seems imprudent, I conceive, in this age, to represent Christianity as hostile to the progress of the mind, and to turn into enemies of revelation those who do sincerely wish to 'live and let live.'"
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

[95] Moreover, M. Leroy-Beaulieu, in La Question de la Population [96] states that those districts of France which show an exceptionally low birthrate are distinguished by a peculiar atmosphere of materialism, and that their inhabitants exhibit, in a high degree, an attitude of mind well named l'esprit arriviste —the desire to concentrate on outward success, to push on, to be climbers, to advance themselves and their children in fashionable society.
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland

So he rounded up a cook and a messboy and turned them into expert gunners in five minutes and knocked three Jap planes out of the sky with his improvised gun crew in ten minutes.
— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

Indeed, one fancies it might almost traverse the interstellar ether and drive against the stars.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

Why not indefiniteness in this Revelation as {317} to the being of a God and his attributes, as to man's whole duty, as to the objects of Christ's mission, as to the immortal existence of any souls?
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river; and on the nearest of them, just within the bar, the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight, hull and funnel and masts, as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort, without a tremor.
— from 'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales by Joseph Conrad

"It was not; and there were many at the time in Edinburgh who believed her innocent; but she was convicted of enough, even without the murder.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

Pinart, in the King’s name, formally forbade Alençon to proceed to the Netherlands except as a married man, and tried to intimidate Elizabeth by threatening that his master would ally himself with Philip.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly