When his law shall come it will scatter the charms of Druids from journeying on the lips of black, lying demons ’—so characterized by the Christian transcribers.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Κατακληροδοτέω, ῶ, ( κατά , κλῆρος , & δίδωμι f. ήσω, to divide out by lot, distribute by lot, Ac. 13.19.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I love the solemn sound That shakes thy shores around, And hoarsely murmurs, ever, As thy waters onward bound, Like a rash, unbridled steed Flying madly on its course; That shakes with thundering force The vale and trembling mead.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Though situated nearer Queen Street than Richmond Street, it faced the latter, and was approached from the latter.—It was Mr. Montgomery who obtained by legal process the opening of Queen Street in the rear of his property.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

It flows from the fact that in each exists a bias toward affection, a craving for the pleasure of being loved.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

When he resolves to give over his Passion, he tells us that one burnt like him for ever dreads the Fire.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

p. 192) two authentic passages in Vincent of Beauvais (l. xxxi.
— 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

After various consultations between the aide-de-camp of the Elysée and the men of the Prefect Maupas, the two police-vans were placed on railway trucks, each having behind it the open barouche like a wheeled sentry-box, where a police agent acted as sentinel.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

He went on by la maison Claire.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The daily terrors of barbarous life avail to haunt the nerves of civilised people, now many generations after they have passed away, with special and irrational shudders at certain objects or noises: how then must they have haunted the dreams of humanity when, like the daughter of Nathan the Wise, rescued from flames, it passed the intervals of strife With nerves unstrung through fear, And fire and flame in all she sees or fancies; Her soul awake in sleep, asleep when wide awake?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The former is the result of being linked with Christ's Person ; the latter is the result of His work .
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

But it is no less true that when new evils arise there is a necessity of new remedies, and that when the ancient laws have been abrogated either by inobservance or by license, it is necessary to make new ones in order to cure current evils and to arrest the course of public calamity.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

coccopoma ; but the adductor ridge is here much sharper and more prominent; and the rostral depressor muscle, instead of being lodged in a little cavity formed by the folding over the occludent margin, has, in addition, a small plate on the under side, which tends to convert the pit into a tube.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

When this bill reached the Lords, it was rather violently opposed by Lords Monteagle and Redesdale; and on a division the voting was found to be equal.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

Do let me read you how it opens: “‘Beatrice Lady Cullumpton entered the long, dimly-lit drawing-room, her eyes blazing with a hope that she guessed to be groundless, her lips trembling with a fear that she could not disguise.
— from The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers by Saki

We cross the winding river from time to time on trestle-bridges; and soon we are in amongst the mountains again, penetrating a gorge, where the track is overhung by lofty bluffs; and climbing up the heights, we shortly leave the river, foaming in its bed, far [Pg 263] beneath us.
— from A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles

He retired to rest early, and as soon as he was fairly asleep, Ole sprang out of bed, lighted a candle, and stepped softly into an adjoining room, where he began to write down his music with prestissimo speed.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

Before the enemy were within shooting distance, the gallant fellows turned tail, and splashed into the river, dragging themselves up the opposite bank like half-drowned rats, and saluted with loud peels of laughter by the victorious mountaineers, who, firing a volley into the air, in token of supreme contempt, quietly continued their route up the stream.
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

As if John had said, We know particular Believers are of God; but the whole World of Believers lieth in Wickedness .
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay