" But by the help of the Lord our God, even reason, and that readily enough, shatters these revolving circles which conjecture frames.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And how the old quarrels were renewed, until an armed interference of Rome was brought upon them; and how the victory of lviii Mummius at Corinth ( B.C. 146), and the consequent settlement of the commissioners, finally dissolved the league into separate cantons, nominally autonomous, but really entirely subject to Rome.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Up to this time I had received no reinforcements, except six thousand raw troops under Brigadier General Robert O. Tyler, just arrived.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Further, our own concentration has already been so prepared in peace that it must be carried out with clock-like regularity, even should the results of the reconnaissance disclose that the conditions on the side of the enemy were not quite those that we had originally expected.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi

Now the proximate effect of wisdom seems to be charity, according to Wis. 7:27: "Through nations she conveyeth herself into holy souls; she maketh the friends of God and prophets": whereas peace and the adoption of sons seem to be remote effects, since they result from charity, as stated above (Q. 29, A. 3).
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I have already removed the right eye, stripped the retina, exposed it and got a result; the picture is at present the size of a sixpence; my man is at work on it now; it is being reproduced and magnified enormously, under the rays of a five thousand candle-power arc-light.
— from The Cottage on the Fells by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

290 Not with more constancy the Jews of old, By Cyrus from rewarded exile sent, Their royal city did in dust behold, Or with more vigour to rebuild it went.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

No time was lost, for the need for doing something grew more and more evident; and with the young men standing by to calm and caress each beautiful steed in turn, running nooses were placed round their fetlocks, and the ropes’ ends slipped through ring-bolt and round belaying pin, to be made fast, so that before half an hour had passed the horses were thoroughly secured, and stood staring-eyed and shivering, ready to burst out into a piteous whinnying if the young men attempted to move away.
— from The King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn

And it is idle to deny that this impression is ill-founded: no flash of blinding revelation ever surprises the reader, nor does he ever feel that the perusal of them has added a new element to or presented a fresh aspect of life; only that here, gracefully expressed, is precisely what he had always thought.
— from The Freaks of Mayfair by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

As he finished reading Estella seized the receipt quickly out of his hands, and fixed her eyes eagerly upon the signature.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

Thiudbeald, i.e . Theobald; and Ralph , Relf , Roff , etc., show the regular Old French development of Raedwulf, Radolf.
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

He even suspected them to be Romish emissaries, saying, "their religious professions are very justly suspected to be the result of jesuitical [ 442 ] policy, which also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges."
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell