Michael informs Seth that it can only be obtained after the lapse of the ages intervening the Fall and the Atonement.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Perhaps the most important suggestion that I can offer here to Scouters may be summed up in the motto: — “Laugh while you work.”
— from Scouting for Girls Adapted from Girl Guiding by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

"This is our punishment," he said, "because we complained of the manna; now we are stuffed with quails like the murmuring Israelites so that it comes out at our throats."
— from Fair Haven and Foul Strand by August Strindberg

And passing from the pagan to the Christian myth, I saw the Immaculate Conception of Murillo—that of the young maiden at the Prado in Madrid—and I felt lifted into the ecstasy of a mystic motherhood.
— from The Woman Who Vowed (The Demetrian) by Ellison Harding

In less than a minute I saw the Indians charging our line most furiously and shooting a great many rifle balls into our camp fires, throwing the live coals into the air three or four feet high.
— from The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce