[298] By these three men, then, when a son Isaac was again promised to Abraham by Sarah, such a divine oracle was also given that it was said, "Abraham shall become a great and numerous nation, and all [Pg 146] the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Bour Company was incorporated in 1892, following a partnership which had succeeded to a small business concern under the name of the Eagle Spice Company.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Our expectation is empirical, and we feel and assert nothing in respect to the necessity of the expected sequence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

We had at least always to take them on hands and knees, although neither of them ever showed much in front—their babes lying just between—but, by Jove, their hips expanded splendidly.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

For a little after John says that the devil, being loosed, shall draw the nations whom he has seduced in the whole world to make war against the Church, and that the number of these enemies shall be as the sand of the sea.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[Pg 73] of the Arctic coast, the navigation of the East Siberian coast, and the discovery of Japan and America.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

It was stipulated, that in the acclamations of the Roman people, the name of the emperor should be always proclaimed before that of the Gothic king; and that as often as the statue of Theodatus was erected in brass on marble, the divine image of Justinian should be placed on its right hand.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This ponder, that all nations of the earth Shall in his seed be blessed: By that seed Is meant thy great Deliverer, who shall bruise The Serpent's head; whereof to thee anon Plainlier shall be revealed.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The mere silence of the Constitution in regard to civil causes, is represented as an abolition of the trial by jury, and the declamations to which it has afforded a pretext are artfully calculated to induce a persuasion that this pretended abolition is complete and universal, extending not only to every species of civil, but even to criminal causes.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Another minute and Lord Ashiel's gun went up; she heard the whirr of approaching wings before she covered both ears with her hands to deaden the noise of the explosions she knew were coming.
— from The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

As to the sins of the people which he rebukes, they may be all naturally referred to the times of Isaiah, while some of them, as the neglect of the established sacrifices and oblations (43:23, 24), and the offering of sacrifices in connection with an impure heart and life (66:3), presuppose the existence of the temple and altar at Jerusalem, where alone sacrifices could be lawfully offered.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Is it for nothing that in that clear, pure, limpid air the very nerves of the ear, strained hard to catch quickly at distant sounds, are exercised and educated? Do you think, if I wanted to pick out voices for a musical troupe, I would go for them to Holland, or to Lombardy, or to Hamburg?
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

Mr. Nicholas , on this, expressed some embarrassment as to giving his vote, on which he moved to strike out the latter part.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

These latter were all Gaelic people, who had understood little or nothing of the English service.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

Escaping from the custody of the sheriff of York, the prisoner was retaken at his own house in Middlesex, and sent to Northampton, on the Eastern Shore.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell