Might he not work that day by Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and, after all, only produce a new chapter in that history which had already shown so many wonderful interpositions?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

Please, therefore, not to proceed with the type or portrule as now constructed: I will see you on my return and explain it in season for you to get one ready for us.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

The nobility and the clergy were equally attacked; the privileges of the former were invaded, and the property of the latter confiscated; and had not his zeal carried him too far, so as to alarm our new nobles, our new men of property, and new Christians, it is very probable that atheism would have already, without opposition, reared its head in the midst of Germany, and proclaimed there the rights of man, and the code of liberty and equality.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

Robert Craggs, 13 Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal, 19 20 ; his services dispensed with by Hastings, 24 ; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan, 25 ; his alliance with the majority of the new council, 42 43; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, 45 40 ; his death, 48 49 O. Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, 295 300 Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness, 308 Ochino Bernardo, 349 ; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon, 349 Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole, 161 "Old Bachelor," Congreve's, 389 Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, 38 Old Whig, Addison's, 417 Oleron, 509 Oligarchy, characteristics of, 181 183.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

If we read the writings of naturalists of this country who have studied the question, Frederick Cuvier (brother to George Cuvier), and Flourens, [13] who has but commented upon Frederick Cuvier's book on the more profound work of a learned contemporary writer, M. Fée of Strasbourg, [14] we shall easily find that no fundamental distinction between intelligence and 147 instinct can be established, and that the whole secret of our philosophers and naturalists consists in calling the intelligence of animals, which is weaker than ours, instinct .
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

Naked I came into the world of pleasure, And naked come I to this house of pain.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

His equipment always looks new, for as rust breaks through the protecting coat of paint, a new coat is immediately applied; and his plowshares, discs, cultivator shovels, and other bright parts of implements are always given a thorough coating of grease before being put away for the winter.
— from Implement sheds by K. J. T. (Karl John Theodore) Ekblaw

By means of the immense riches that Joseph had accumulated, a veritable shower of gold fell upon the country; "he raised the people out of poverty and needy circumstances into ease and comfort.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Philip had a notable one under his thumb, the pope at that time settled at Avignon; and he made use of him for the purpose of proposing a new crusade, in which Edward III. should be called upon to join with him.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot