No religion!" and a British tourist who made a journey throughout the country of Portugal met bands of innocent babes carrying banners, on which the inscription was "We have no need of God."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Various reasons are assigned by ancient Greek writers for these migrations of the princes.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

As we went along, he surprised me occasionally by repeating apt and beautiful quotations from the poets, ranging easily from Shakespeare and George Herbert to those of our own day.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I just gave a glance in front of me and saw sitting next to each other in the front row a general with a broad ribbon and a bishop.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his rifle from the wall.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Outwardly he was cheerful, reliable, and brave; but within, all had reverted to chaos, ruled, so far as it was ruled at all, by an incomplete asceticism.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Then there was a rush, and a Bang, Bang, Bang! and the bullets fairly whizzed around us!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Bobby: you really are a beast: Monsieur Duvallet will think I'm always fighting.
— from Fanny's First Play by Bernard Shaw

Fairfax county courthouse, resolutions adopted at, by Washington and others, in 1774, i. 401-405; resolutions adopted at, readopted at the Williamsburg convention, i. 406.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Lord Sidmouth interfered, and said it would give offence to others if it were received as a body; and the King then deputed me to select six gentlemen, which was utterly impossible without giving offence; so that it has ended at last in its going to the Secretary of State.
— from Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

They also prepare beaten rice, act as boatmen, porters, and agricultural labourers, clean tanks and wells, and thatch houses.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

All coal seams and the rocks above and below them have been laid down by water.
— from The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Having then made his essay on claret, and proved it to be of the same complexion, he again drinks four or five glasses of luke-warm water, and brings forth claret and beer at once into two several glasses: now you are to observe that the glass which appears to be claret is rinsed as before, but the beer glass not rinsed at all, but is still moist with the white-wine vinegar, and the first strength of the Brazil water being lost, it makes the water which he vomits up to be of a more pale colour, and much like our English beer.
— from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. by Harry Houdini

Dr. Wortle, when he read and re-read the article, and when the jokes which were made upon it reached his ears, as they were sure to do, was nearly maddened by what he called the heartless iniquity of the world; but his state became still worse when he received an affectionate but solemn letter from the Bishop warning him of his danger.
— from Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword to future ages.
— from Five Sermons by Henry Benjamin Whipple

The force from England would be made up partially by the First Class Army Reserve, and a Brigade was also available to be sent from Bombay to Suez.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron