1614 G. — S. Price a violent impugner of Roman Catholicism.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

Now, Ben Jonson's estimate of Shakespere in prose and verse is on record in more places than one, and is as authentic as the silly stories of his envy are mythical.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

" The newspaper narrative appeared to have produced a vivid impression on Rhoda's mind.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

The rebels waited till we were within range and then poured a volley into our ranks from their guns on the parapet, while the riflemen rattled their bullets from the small arms.
— from The Old Sixth Regiment, Its War Record, 1861-5 by Charles K. Cadwell

"I quite agree," she said, "that people are very interesting; only—" Rachel, putting her finger between the pages, looked up enquiringly.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

They believe that sin is its own punishment, and virtue its own rewarder; that the moral consequences of a man's good or evil conduct go with him into the future life, to afford him remorse or satisfaction; that God will be influenced in all his dealings with the soul by mercy and justice, punishing no more severely than the sinner deserves, and always for a benevolent end.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

[198] establishment of a purely spiritual worship, and denied the existence of a hell or a paradise, persuaded that sin finds in itself its own punishment, and virtue its own reward.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud