cried the Captain, “come the reverend brethren to such terms?—Keep thine assurance of peace, Friar.—Prior, an thou hast not made thy peace perfect with God, provoke the Friar no further.—Hermit, let the reverend father depart in peace, as a ransomed man.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

As they looked, the tree quivered more and more, then was violently agitated and fell to the ground, while amid the excited dancing of the dancers and the chanting of the choir the supposed dead man spurned from him the superincumbent mass of sticks and leaves, and springing to his feet danced his magic dance in the grave itself, and exhibited in his mouth the magic substances which he was supposed to have received from Daramulun in person.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But that is no reason for denying its presence.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He was even pleased by failures, for failures resulting from deviations in practice from the theory only proved to him the accuracy of his theory.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Advanced Renaissance : Fontaine des Innocents, Paris, 1547–50, by P. Lescot and J. Goujon ; tomb Francis I., at St. Denis, 1555, by Ph. de l’Orme ; H. Catelan, Toulouse, 1555; tomb Henry II., at St. Denis, 1560; portal S. Michel, Dijon, 1564; Ch.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

As they looked, the tree quivered more and more, then was violently agitated and fell to the ground, while amid the excited dancing of the dancers and the chanting of the tuneful choir the supposed dead man spurned from him the superincumbent mass of sticks and leaves, and springing to his feet danced his magic dance in the grave itself, and exhibited in his mouth the magic substances which he was supposed to have received from Daramulun in person.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

There is no room for delay in plans which cannot be commended until they are put into action.'
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

I can see signs that our enemies here and abroad would try to make it appear that you are responsible for delay in peace settlement and that delay has increased momentum of bolshevism and anarchy in Hungary and Balkans.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

[Footnote: Marginal note of Duke Bogislaff XIV.-"In tuas manus commendo spiritum meum, quia tu me redemisti fide deus,"] I pray therefore the all-merciful God, that He will remove me before your Highness from this vale of tears, that I may not behold the last hour of your Highness or of my poor fatherland.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

In other words, every term which is susceptible of definition is ipso facto relative, for definition is precisely the segregation of the thing defined from all other things which it is not, i.e. implies a relation.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In going to and returning from Darien, I passed twice over the Panama railroad and along the line of the Panama canal, and I have thought that a few facts relative to the canal and railroad might prove of interest to the Geographical Society.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various

He left Palermo for this trip on the 5th of October, and returned again on the 22d, having remained five days in Port Mahon.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

[629] Elsewhere he says that he had allowed himself only two more years of life, and that, not he alone, but all his brethren were ripe for death: “In Popery in times bygone we howled for everlasting life; for the sake of the kingdom of heaven we treated ourselves very harshly, nay, put our bodies to death, not indeed with sword or weapon, but, by fasting and maceration of the body we begged and besought day and night.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar