The more intelligent and grave Romans have seen these things, but have had little power against the custom of the state, which was bound to observe the rites of the demons; because even they themselves, although they perceived that these things were vain, yet thought that the religious worship which is due to God should be paid to the nature of things which is established under the rule and government of the one true God, "serving," as saith the apostle, "the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

H2 anchor DIFFICULT PEOPLE Y EVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame Kuvshinnikov, a general’s widow, was standing in a corner before a copper washing-stand, washing his hands.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Pedaritus, son of Leon, who had been sent by the Lacedaemonians to take the command at Chios, they dispatched by land as far as Erythrae with the mercenaries taken from Amorges; appointing Philip to remain as governor of Miletus.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

His then benevolent unwillingness to tell them frankly he did not think they had sense enough to run a government of their own, and that they were unfit for self-government, has already been reviewed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

"With regard to the sons of the traitors," (continues the emperor,) "although they ought to share the punishment, since they will probably imitate the guilt, of their parents, yet, by the special effect of our Imperial lenity, we grant them their lives; but, at the same time, we declare them incapable of inheriting, either on the father's or on the mother's side, or of receiving any gift or legacy, from the testament either of kinsmen or of strangers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Don't you love to ride?" asked Grace of Amy, as they stood resting after a race round the field with the others, led by Ned.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And thus, I said, we have fulfilled the conditions of the argument 5 ; B we have not introduced the rewards and glories of justice, which, as you were saying, are to be found in Homer and Hesiod; but justice in her own nature has been shown to be best for the soul in her own nature.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Such was the world of pomp and pageant that lived round Tasso in his dismal cell at Ferrara, when he conceived the splendid scenes of his Jerusalem; and we may consider The King’s Quair,* composed by James during his captivity at Windsor, as another of those beautiful breakings forth of the soul from the restraint and gloom of the prison-house.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Even Barbara Henderson's brilliant translation of this epic of spleen, the first version of which to be published in Great Britain it was my privilege to reprint in The Daily Mail from the columns of the New York Times , fails to do justice to the innate rancor and gall of Lissauer's original verses.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

Both would retire as general officers.
— from Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands by John C. Chapin

Before going on to speak of the work of Eli and Sybil Jones among the Friends and other Protestants in the south of France, a brief sketch of the rise and growth of the little branch of our Society there may be in place.
— from Eli and Sibyl Jones, Their Life and Work by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

We finally concluded that as soon as it was dark we would get the boats ready and go out to sea, where we could watch proceedings in safety.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

Fig. 58, copied from a sketch made by Mr. S. Koyama, represents another group of these buildings in Tokio.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

By which reason it followeth, that needilie great inconuenience must fall to that people, that a child is ruler and gouernour of: nor it is not possible for that kingdome to stand in felicitie, where such conditions reigne in the head and ruler of the same.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

They might have run and gone on running most of that long day, but they were no longer running; they were moving in reasonable order and to some purpose, with a direction in view and a form of organization, no matter how patched together they were.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

" In July 1538, upon occasion of "the Quenis (Magdalene's) saull mess and dirige, quham God assolze," Maister George Balquhanan received a goun of Paryse blak, lyned with blak satyne, &c. Also £20, at the King's command.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox