The unparticled matter, or God, in quiescence, is (as nearly as we can conceive it) what men call mind.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

But there could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that, by the mercy of God, they who are endowed with true piety of life, if they have the skill for ruling people, should also have the [Pg 217] power.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Oh, sir, begging your pardon, I've never been used t' having gentlefolks's servants coming about my back places, a-making love to both the gells at once and keeping 'em with their hands on their hips listening to all manner o' gossip when they should be down on their knees a-scouring.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

This matter having afterwards spread abroad, there was born from it the proverb that is still wont to be said to men of gross wits: "Tu sei più tondo che l' O di Giotto!"
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

This is a matter of great importance, continued my benefactor, seeing that I was about to interrupt him; let me stop awhile to explain it more fully.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

According to what La Roche, the confidential servant of Madam de Luxembourg, wrote to me relative to what had happened, it is by this cruel and memorable example that the miseries of greatness are to be deplored.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To my own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat, preserved foods, crackers, bread, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar, wax candles, and boxes of matches.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

"Then am I doomed yet, perhaps, for many a cycle of years, to spread misery and desolation around me; and yet I love you with a feeling which has in it more of gratefulness and unselfishness than ever yet found a home within my breast.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

'Help me, O God, for Christ's sake,' I said.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 2 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

In all of the statements with reference to the structure of the purine bases, the term "oxy" is used [Pg 160] to mean an oxygen atom attached by both its bonds to one of the carbons in the nucleus, instead of its customary use to mean the monovalent OH group replacing a hydrogen, as in the case of all other nomenclature of organic compounds.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

Then my old grudge against you.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5 by Robert Bridges

Startled, but not dismayed—for he was a man of great courage—by the sudden address and appearance of Guy Fawkes, Lord Mounteagle instantly sprang to his feet, and drawing his sword, put himself into a posture of defence.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

It was a moment of great elevation.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker