Then Lucius observed—“There is now no place on earth into which no one dare enter, like the Holy of holies in the Tabernacle of old.”
— from The Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand-Work and Heart-Work by A. L. O. E.

But not once did Eva leave the path.
— from Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land by Mary D. (Mary Dummett) Nauman

The great power of the Danes, and the amicable fusion of their race with the Saxon which had now taken place, are apparent in this decision; for not only did Earl Leofric, of Mercia, though himself a Saxon (as well as the Earl of Northumbria, with the thegns north of the Thames), declare for Harold the Dane, but the citizens of London were of the same party; and Godwin represented little more than the feeling of his own principality of Wessex.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

For hereupon it should follow that there was a necessity of doing evil laid upon Peter, so that he behoved to offend the Jews either by his eating with the Gentiles, or by his not eating with the Gentiles; for he could not both eat with them and not eat with them.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Mr. Wright, who has traced these fowls back still further, inclines to the belief that at some period whereof we have no knowledge the Penciled varieties formed a part of the Hamburg family, although our earliest positive knowledge traces them to direct importations from Holland, where they were brought in great numbers, and were originally known under the names of “Dutch Everyday Layers” or “Dutch Everlasting Layers.”
— from The Book of the Hamburgs A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But against these no one can guard, no one dare even look awry at them or accuse them of theft, so that one would ten times rather lose from his purse.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

Prior to the allowance of his claim for pension he wrote to the Bureau of Pensions a full history of his disability as resulting from chronic diarrhea and piles, and in that letter he made the following statement: I have had no other disease, except last September (1880) I had pleurisy and congestion of my left lung.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

[96] up and found a gang of lawless negroes on deck, evidently looking for plunder, and thinking so many of them could easily cow or handle the two white men.
— from The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln by Wayne Whipple

No novelist or dramatist ever laid his plot deeper, distributed his characters more artistically, or conducted more methodically the progress of his story.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

And yet the Dean tells us that this abused daughter treated the hyena mother with the greatest kindness, and loved her as no other daughter ever loved a mother.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll