It was further made interesting, by the remarkable experiences of Jesse Hexam in having rescued from the Thames so many dead bodies, and for whose behoof a rapturous admirer subscribing himself 'A friend to Burial' (perhaps an undertaker), sent eighteen postage stamps, and five 'Now Sir's to the editor of the Times.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

i dispietati artigli, prendendo l'un ch'avea nome Learco, e rotollo e percosselo ad un sasso; e quella s'annego` con l'altro carco.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The poor counsellor begged pardon, and universal silence ensued.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

[1] That is, the Categorical Imperative appears at first as your "obedient humble servant," ready to perform any useful service, e.g. , the solving of ethical riddles; while it ends by gaining the upper hand, and commanding.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Haec iuxta telum transversa demittitur; deinde ubi ad imum mucronem ventum est paulum torquetur, ut telum foramine suo excipiat; quum in cavo mucro est, duo digiti subiecti partis alterius uncis simul et ferramentum id extrahunt et telum.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

You do therein (quoth hee) the better, and surely I am very sory for you, because in this dangerous condition, it will bee the utter losse of your soule: neverthelesse, both for your husbands sake and your owne, I will take some paines, and use such especiall prayers in your name, which may (perchance) greatly avayle you.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

"Noble avenues, profuse woods," thus speaks one of unerring accuracy, "a waste of lawn and pasture, an unrestrained scope, everything bespeaks the carelessness of liberality and extensive possessions; while the ancient castle, its earliest part belonging to the year 1500, stamps on it that air of high and distant opulence which adds so deep a moral interest to the rural features of baronial Britain."
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

Telephone system: general assessment: can communicate worldwide domestic: automatic network international: HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension which is a major coaxial submarine cable relay point between South Africa, Portugal, and UK ; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But this is possible through him , and therefore in prayer, and under strictly ethical and spiritual conditions, and not as a matter of mere whimsical and wilful will on our part, and it opens no door to magical superstition.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

Another was the belief and opinion of those times, that Christ would suddenly come; for they held not generally the same opinion with their successors, or as descending ages after so many Centuries; but conceived his coming would not be long after his passion, according unto several expressions of our Saviour grosly understood, and as we find the same opinion not long after reprehended by St. Paul : Thes.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Its teachings centered on the Lotus Sutra, which taught that the human Buddha personified a universal spirit, evidence of the oneness permeating all things.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

In many cases of urinary disorder in the ox, however, the symptoms are by no means prominent, and unless special examination is made of the loins, the bladder, and the urine the true nature of the malady may be overlooked.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

I now offer in evidence Document Number 1799-PS as United States Exhibit Number 131.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various