"Father Jove," he cried, "that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, witness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But great obstacles seemed to him to lie in the way of the realisation of such a project as that of St. Pierre.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

He briefly stated the purpose of the meeting, and added that a subscription-list had been lately opened by which something more than two hundred dollars in money and labour had been promised, and that other sums were to be expected from several respectable inhabitants who were well-wishers to the undertaking, but had not as yet contributed towards it.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This I quickly did, while she sucked and postillioned me, handling the root of my prick, and my buttocks with the delicious gentle titillations in which she had such skill, until, in an excess of joy, we both poured a tribute of sperm into each
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The middle of December the Pyrates took another Galley in her Voyage home from Jamaica , call’d the Kent , Captain Lawton , and shifted her Provisions aboard their own Ship, and let her go, which obliged her to Sail back to Jamaica for a Supply for her Voyage.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Pherae, a town of south-eastern Thessaly, the home of Admetus; of Jason, i , 108 ; of Alexander, ii , 25 . Philip, conqueror, king of Macedon (359-336), educated at Thebes, cultured, i , 90 ; wise, ii , 48 ; eloquent, tactful and firm in discipline, ii , 53 . Philip, the younger, son of Antigonus ( q.v. ), ii , 48 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

One day, coming ashore, I saw him standing on the quay; the water of the roadstead and the sea in the offing made one smooth ascending plane, and the outermost ships at anchor seemed to ride motionless in the sky.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

IN THIS BOOK THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GOD IS TRACED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS AND PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL TO DAVID, EVEN TO CHRIST; AND THE PROPHECIES WHICH ARE RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF KINGS, PSALMS, AND THOSE OF SOLOMON, ARE INTERPRETED OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

2 [A; a12] fool, pull a trick on s.o.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The sect of the Peripatetics, of all sects the most sociable, attribute to wisdom this sole care equally to provide for the good of these two associate parts: and the other sects, in not sufficiently applying themselves to the consideration of this mixture, show themselves to be divided, one for the body and the other for the soul, with equal error, and to have lost sight of their subject, which is Man, and their guide, which they generally confess to be Nature.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

There were many reefs between their position and the open sea: the only thing to do was to anchor then and there.
— from Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Leonard Waldo

After him the villagers walk seven times round the altar of the god in pairs, one man turning up the earth with the ploughshare and the other sowing and watering the seed.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

The road of life, too, or the paths and thickets of speculation.
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

Should there be trees near the open space where the dance takes place, one-half of the dancers, closely wrapped in their green mantles, should be grouped at one side among the trees and the other half similarly placed at the other side.
— from Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

Radium seemed to have the power of maintaining its own temperature permanently above that of surrounding bodies.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

We met here a boat from St. Michael with Mr. Frank P. Williams, the well-known postmaster and trader of St. Michael, who comes for the two men, my fellow passengers.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

Across the plain a tornado of shells swept upon the German positions, and in many places the trenches were pounded into utter ruin.
— from The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) The Story of the Year 1915 by Edward Parrott

Imagine this landscape animated by a multitude of figures—men, women, children and animals, forming groups that vie with one another in the characteristic and the picturesque; here the innkeeper, round and ruddy, seated in the sun on a low chair, rolling between his hands the tobacco to make a cigarette, with the paper in his mouth; there a huckster of Macarena who sings, rolling up his eyes, to the accompaniment of his guitar, while others beat time by clapping their hands or striking their glasses on the tables; over yonder a group of peasant girls with their gauzy kerchiefs of a million colors, and a whole flower-pot of pinks in their hair, who play the tambourine, and scream, and laugh, and talk at the top of their voices as they push like mad the swing hung between two trees; and the serving-boys of the tavern who come and go with trays of wine-glasses full of manzanilla and with plates of olives; and the group of village people who swarm in the road; two drunken fellows quarrelling with a dandy who is making love, in passing, to a pretty girl; a cock that, proudly spreading out its wings, crows from the thatch of the poultry-yard; a dog that barks at the boys who tease him with sticks and stones; olive-oil boiling and bubbling in the pan where fish is frying; the cracking of the whips of the cab-drivers who arrive in a cloud of dust; a din of songs, castanets, peals of laughter, voices, whistles and guitars, and blows on the tables, and clappings, and {254} crash of breaking pitchers, and thousands of strange, discordant sounds forming a jocund hullabaloo impossible to describe.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Immediately after these two claims, he preferred a third of still greater importance: he required him to give in the accounts of his administration while chancellor, and to pay the balance due from the revenues of all the prelacies, abbeys, and baronies, which had, during that time, been subjected to his management
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

In these communications I am requested to continue my care of them as usual, and explain to them, at a convenient leisure, portions and texts of Scripture which they could not of themselves comprehend.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid