Les rituels ordonnent dans la pratique ce que les théologiens ont établi sur les mémes matiéres, & ils deffendent tous d’une maniére uniforme, de baptiser les enfans qui sont renfermés dans le sein de leurs meres, s’ils ne sont paroître quelque partie de leurs corps.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It is a strange and unworthy feeling that prompts a man not to claim that to which he has a right, for fear that he may one day lose it; for by the same reasoning he might refuse wealth, reputation, or wisdom, for fear of losing them hereafter.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The dewos, or demons, lent their aid in the erection.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Vis-à-vis du grand public, une autre possibilité consisterait en un cryptage fort des données et une vérification automatique et obligatoire des licences.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Don Luis kissed his hands by force, nay, bathed them with his tears, in a way that would have touched a heart of marble, not to say that of the Judge, who, as a shrewd man, had already perceived how advantageous the marriage would be to his daughter; though, were it possible, he would have preferred that it should be brought about with the consent of the father of Don Luis, who he knew looked for a title for his son.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Zen sect teaches that, besides all the doctrines of the Greater and the Lesser Vehicles, whether hidden or apparent, there is one distinct line of transmission of a secret doctrine which is not subject to any utterance at all.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At first it seemed to be no more than a light in some house; but as we came nearer to it and it was passing out of our direct line of vision we saw that it was moving up and down, to and fro, diminishing to a spark, then expanding into a yellow luminous flame.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

She spent most of her time sitting on deck looking out to sea, trying to piece together the broken fragments of her shattered life.
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

She was now walking along with both hands in her pockets, feeling more confidence in herself now that a means of defense lay within her right hand.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail by Josephine Chase

Then bursts the song from every leafy glade, The yielding season's bridal serenade; Then flash the wings returning Summer calls Through the deep arches of her forest halls,— The bluebird, breathing from his azure plumes The fragrance borrowed where the myrtle blooms; The thrush, poor wanderer, dropping meekly down, Clad in his remnant of autumnal brown; The oriole, drifting like a flake of fire Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing spire.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Under the mask of piety, the rigid followers of Hanbal invaded the pleasures of domestic life, burst into the houses of plebeians and princes, the wine, broke the instruments, beat the musicians, and dishonored, with infamous suspicions, the associates of every handsome youth.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

So far as appears the only domestic live-stock aboard the MAY-FLOWER consisted of goats, swine, poultry, and dogs.
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 5 by Azel Ames

Forty years of traveling on the main ocean and thinking long for this place, and now when I come back I know no more about it than a fish does of dry land."
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne

By the misplacing of an ordinance.[7] These also are to see they wander not From place or duty, lest they get a blot To their profession, or bring some disease Upon the whole, or get a trick to lease, Or lie unto their God, by doing what By sacred statutes he commanded not.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Then one day little Abrams said to her: "He'll never get well here."
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

"I nuver is preached wid power yit on'y but 'cep' when I sees de sinner standin' 'fo' de bar o' de Lord, an' de witnesses on de stan', an' de speckletators pressin' for'ard to heah, an' de jury listenin', an me—I'm de prosecutin' 'torney !
— from Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

Oh damn, look what you started, Donald.
— from You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did by David E. Fisher