It bears the inscription, “Lucem tuam Ovino da Deus et requiem.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The letters of Du Deffand, Espinasse, Roland, and even of De Staël, though always exhibiting ability, are too hard or too hot, too fierce or too fond, for our tastes; they are also so evidently intended for any human being except the one to whom they were addressed, or rather for all human beings—they were so palpably "private effusions" for the public ear—sentiments stereotyped, and sympathies for the circulating library—that they possessed as little the interest as the character of correspondence.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

[E260] "Woodrofe," spelt according to an old distich thus: "Double U, double O, double D, E, R, O, double U, double F, E." It derives its name originally from the Fr. roue = a wheel, dimin.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

It may be easy to preach a reform whose aims do not hurt our pride, shatter our fortunes, alter our way of living, or conflict with the ideas inculcated upon us in childhood by our parents; but to do this to one's own detriment deserves especial recognition.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

" After which is narrated the election of the master and other officers of the company for the coming year, "and Master Clareshur mad a grett bankett for the master and hys compene, furst spysed bred, cheres (cherries), straberes, pepyns, and marmalade and suckett comfets, and portingalles [285] (Portugal oranges), and dyvers odur dyssays, (dishes), epocres, rennys (Rhenish wine), claret wyne, and bere, and alle grett plente and alle was welcome."
— from Bygone London by Frederick Ross

Dogmatics regards the Christian life from the standpoint of divine dependence: Ethics regards it from the {26} standpoint of human determination.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

The authority of priests to absolve, the authority of popes to define the authority, even of inquisitors to terrify: these were all only dark defences erected round one central authority, more undemonstrable, more supernatural than all—the authority of a man to think.
— from Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

She wuz standin' on de [Pg 368] po'ch an' de sun wuz shinin' on de diamon' ear rings in her ears.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The authority of priests to absolve, the authority of popes to define, the authority even of inquisitors to terrify: these were all only dark defences erected round one central authority, more undemonstrable, more supernatural than all the authority of a man to think.
— from A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.' both in verse and in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts. by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton