The Jesuit Delrio, in his book on magic and sorcery, relates a still more extraordinary story of him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

He also accuses Epicurus of shameful ignorance in his reasoning, and still more especially in all matters relating to the conduct of life.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He invited me to dine with him every Thursday, and undertook to send me a janissary who would protect me from the insults of the rabble and shew me everything worth seeing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They did so, and he lay sleeping more than three hours, at the end of which he awoke and felt very great bodily relief and so much ease from his bruises that he thought himself quite cured, and verily believed he had hit upon the balsam of Fierabras; and that with this remedy he might thenceforward, without any fear, face any kind of destruction, battle, or combat, however perilous it might be.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Doctor, with a complacent smile, was reading aloud some manuscript explanation or statement of a theory out of that interminable Dictionary, and she was looking up at him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

de Franquetot anxiously, her eyes starting from her head, as though the keys over which his fingers skipped with such agility were a series of trapezes, from any one of which he might come crashing, a hundred feet, to the ground, stealing now and then a glance of astonishment and unbelief at her companion, as who should say: "It isn't possible, I would never have believed that a human being could do all that!"; Mme. de Cambremer, as a woman who had received a sound musical education, beating time with her head—transformed for the nonce into the pendulum of a metronome, the sweep and rapidity of whose movements from one shoulder to the other (performed with that look of wild abandonment in her eye which a sufferer shews who is no longer able to analyse his pain, nor anxious to master it, and says merely "I can't help it") so increased that at every moment her diamond earrings caught in the trimming of her bodice, and she was obliged to put straight the bunch of black grapes which she had in her hair, though without any interruption of her constantly accelerated motion.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

My brother I shall meet at last, The burthen from my shoulders cast, To Ráma's hand the realm restore And serve my elder as before.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

For very often their doctrines, or religious belief, will be found no nearer right, and sometimes more erroneous after repentance than before, as repentance merely consists in the return to early impressions—the revival of former convictions, which may be either right or wrong, and are about as likely to be the latter as the former.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

If a woman returns to her evil courses, the keeper’s claims on her revive, and she may even be punished.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

Tom rubbed a shiny mahogany ear in earnest reflection.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

When I arrived on Wednesday he informed me that no strange persons were seen in town prior to the robbery, but that on Monday morning about six o'clock, two young men called at the residence of Mr. James Beasley, a farmer residing about six miles eastward, and wanted to engage him to take them to Thorntown, a distance of about twenty miles as an Indiana crow flies.
— from Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie by Louis Arundel

All the agents of nature into which the universal soul entered, received also a portion of its intelligence, and the Universe, in its totality and in its parts, was filled with intelligences, that might be regarded as so many emanations from the sovereign and universal intelligence.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Well, you seem to have been able to take good care of yourself in very ticklish situations; but perhaps after all your present work is a relief after so much excitement.
— from Frank Forester: A Story of the Dardanelles by Herbert Strang

It teaches: There is but one divine person; Christ is a mere man; the doctrine concerning the deity of Christ is false; as a reward for His sinless life, God has given Christ all power in heaven and on earth; as such, as God's representative ( homo Deus factus , the man made God), He may be adored; there is no original sin; with the help of God, that is to say, with the commandments and promises of God revealed by Christ, man may acquire salvation; he is able to keep these commandments, though not perfectly; man's shortcomings are pardoned by God on account of his good intention; an atonement by Christ is not required for this purpose; moreover, the doctrine of atonement must be opposed as false and pernicious; by His death Christ merely sealed His doctrine; all who obey His commandments are adherents of Christ; these will participate in His dominion; the wicked and the devils will be annihilated; there is no such thing as eternal punishment; whatever in the Bible comports with human reason and serves moral ends is inspired; the Old Testament is superfluous for Christians, because all matters pertaining to religion are contained better and clearer in the New Testament.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Some species have more rounded and some more elongated ascidia and often the shape is seen to change with the development of the stem.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

The principles upon which they rest are so manifestly equitable and just that, after a period of nearly ten years, in 1854 they were recognized by the Spanish Government.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents