I'll cheat you yet!' Of all the terrific yells that ever fell on mortal ears, none could exceed the cry of the infuriated throng.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Of all the terrific yells that ever fell on mortal ears, none could exceed the cry of the infuriated throng.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens
Et si quis audierit verba mea, et non custodierit, ego non iudico eum, non enim veni ut iudicem mundum, sed ut salvificem mundum.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory
At least during the later glacial periods the hypothesis must explain numerous climatic epochs and stages superposed upon a single general period of continental upheaval.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
That is, it condemned her in the eyes of others, but not in my eyes; nothing could ever do that!
— from A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells
The intellect of the Atheist would find matter everywhere; but no Causing and Providing Mind: his moral sense would find no Equitable Will, no Beauty of Moral Excellence, no Conscience enacting justice into the unchanging law of right, no spiritual Order or spiritual Providence, but only material Fate and Chance.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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