The other, the Inward, the high Beholding or Regard it not said to "fill" Heaven, but to be "full of" endless Heavens.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Their power of reasoning is not sufficient to enable them to interpret the meaning of these cries.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

But the actualization (which constitutes the life of Reason) is not similar to the actualization of fire.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

Of course, this might have been achieved by ascending the Amazon, especially after the adventurous descent of it by Orellana, of which Fray Gaspar de Carbajal has left so curious a description; but, whether on account of the distance or for some other reason, it never seems to have been attempted.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Often her tone of raillery is noticeably similar to that of Shakespeare's heroine.[3] [Footnote 1: W.G. Stone, Transactions of the New Shakspere Society , 1880-1886, pp.
— from Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Thomas Lodge

Now, certainly, we have among Mr. ——'s people instances of men who have made very considerable sums of money by boat-building in their leisure hours, and the instances of almost life-long persevering stringent labour by which slaves have at length purchased their own freedom and that of their wives and children, are on record in numbers sufficient to prove that they are capable of severe sustained effort of the most patient and heroic kind for that great object, liberty.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster