Creation and preservation are the everlasting work of power; it does not act on that which has no existence; God is not the God of the dead; he could not harm and destroy without injury to himself.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An approach to a more charitable view of the clergy is discoverable in the curate Mr. Larynx, who, if not extremely ghostly, is neither a sot nor a sloven.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

O. N. eggja , goad, incite, Norse egga , Dan. egge , id.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

He who has never entered Gethsemane is not in a position to understand how dark may be the views of all things seen beneath its sombre shade.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

I am not now exactly giving it north and south.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers