Yet neither the mandate of the monarch, nor the huge barriers erected at the entrances of the streets, nor the prospect of that loathsome death which, with almost absolute certainty, overwhelmed the wretch whom no peril could deter from the adventure, prevented the unfurnished and untenanted dwellings from being stripped, by the hand of nightly rapine, of every article, such as iron, brass, or lead-work, which could in any manner be turned to a profitable account.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It is power coming directly from God (or the devil) instead of indirectly through nature or human wills.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Hacia la parte del sud del sitio, de treinta varas de frente por cuarenta de fondo, estaba la habitación única de la casa, dividida en dos departamentos; uno sirviendo de dormitorio a nuestros padres, y el mayor de sala de recibo, con su estrado alto y cojines, resto de las tradiciones del diván árabe que han conservado los pueblos españoles.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The priest came down from the altar, holding the thing out from him, and he and the massboy answered each other in Latin.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

By this time most of those in the inn had been attracted by the dispute, but particularly Cardenio, Don Fernando, his companions, the Judge, the curate, the barber, and Don Quixote; for he now considered there was no necessity for mounting guard over the castle any longer.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Non seulement, ils sont aux mains d'on ne sait trop qui, voir plus haut, mais en plus, intrinsèquement, ils ont le pouvoir culturel de fausser la pensée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

162 Pietro Cavallini Detail from The Last Judgment: Head of the Christ in Glory Rome: Convent of S. Cecilia
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The rival system of Plato came directly from its native soil; and was first publicly taught in Italy early in the fifteenth century, by Gemistus Plato, [*67] of Constantinople.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun

“At your persuasion?” cried Dale fiercely.
— from The Tiger Lily by George Manville Fenn

Whitefield’s doctrine of the new birth was inextricably bound up with crude doctrines of Christ’s substitutionary death and imputed righteousness, and Blake, who had experienced the new birth quite apart from faith in these particular Calvinist dogmas, felt no need to cling to what his instinctive feeling rejected; and, [Pg 50] what with him was final, he found that Whitefield not only left his æsthetic faculties starved, but actually believed that as the arts came from Tubal and Tubal-cain, and they were descended from Cain, who had been cursed, they must necessarily have their origin from hell.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner

The difference [65] between the Upper and Lower Carboniferous faunas is very marked in England, where the Upper Carboniferous beds were deposited under physical conditions different from those of the Lower Carboniferous, and accordingly the corals, crinoids and other open-water animals which flourished in Lower Carboniferous times are rare or altogether absent in the higher rocks.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

Morphine meconate in solution (strength 10 per cent.); dose, from 5 drops.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Pollock climbed down, found his water, drank.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

Dans l'état actuel, le pouvoir préjuge quels sont les théâtres qui peuvent vivre, et le résultat prouve combien de fois il s'est trompé; laissez l'expérience porter ce jugement.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas