They feasted and celebrated this rebuilding of the temple: and for the king, he sacrificed three hundred oxen to God, as did the rest every one according to his ability; the number of which sacrifices is not possible to set down, for it cannot be that we should truly relate it; for at the same time with this celebration for the work about the temple fell also the day of the king's inauguration, which he kept of an old custom as a festival, and it now coincided with the other, which coincidence of them both made the festival most illustrious.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Regarded in this light, the lesions of the bones resulting in fracture and those of the blood-vessels resulting in rupture and hemorrhage are dependent on a deficiency of the same basic material.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Pantagruel in the meantime said to the rest: I feel a pressing retraction in my soul, which like a voice admonishes me not to land there.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

[699] Those who, on the strength of this passage, have suspected that the first resurrection is future and bodily, have been moved, among other things, specially by the number of a thousand years, as if it were a fit thing that the saints should thus enjoy a kind of Sabbath-rest during that period, a holy leisure after the labours of the six thousand years since man was created, and was on account of his great sin dismissed from the blessedness of paradise into the woes of this mortal life, so that thus, as it is written, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," [700] there should follow on the completion of six thousand years, as of six days, a kind of seventh-day Sabbath in the succeeding thousand years; and that it is for this purpose the saints rise, viz.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

These ants then make their dwelling under ground and carry up the sand just in the same manner as the ants found in the land of the Hellenes, which they themselves 93 also very much resemble in form; and the sand which is brought up contains gold.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The primitive vapour congealed, remained inactive for a time, and then produced living beings, beginning with the formation of Mu Kung, the purest substance of the Eastern Air, and sovereign of the active male principle yang and of all the countries of the East.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

("Hurrah!") "Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Strange, the uncouth bird moulded there, in the cup-like hollow, with curious, thick waverings running inwards from a smooth rim.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

to go where riot reigns I feel an impulse, though my soul disdains; To my loved son the snares of death to show, And in the traitor friend, unmask the foe; Who, smooth of tongue, in purpose insincere, Hides fraud in smiles, while death is ambush'd there."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

[342] These stones are generally granite, not sharp, but rounded in front; are used by the Indians to break the large bones of the buffaloes, of the marrow of which they are very fond.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The region is fruitful and well peopled: had it a few large lakes besides, your eye would roam over it with the greater pleasure.
— from A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia by Walter White

She hath been rigorous in fasting and in penance until her strength is gone; but the pain of it she feeleth not, because of the greater pain of her soul, which is lost in supplication that availeth naught."
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

If you are saddened by the thought of receiving insufficient, feeble, and even bitter help, how can I hope to have it abundant, efficacious, or agreeable?
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

We have created unique methods of access for neighborhood organizations to have a participating role in Federal and State government decision-making.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

Roll in flour and brown quickly in hot fat.
— from Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson

You have rather imprudent fanatics among your admirers, my little girl!"
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue

The Basutos maintain that their dead ancestors are continually endeavouring to draw them to themselves, and therefore attribute to them every disease; 163 and the Tarahumares in Mexico suppose that the dead make their relatives ill from a feeling of loneliness, that they, too, may die and join the departed.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The party consisted of my two guides, Joseph and Roman Imboden, father and son, and myself, and our idea was to cross the fine peak of the Rothhorn, 13,855 feet high, from Zermatt to Zinal.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.