IMG Figures 137, 138, are copied from an ancient Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, printed at Venice, 1524, with a license from the Inquisition; the book being lent to me by my friend, Mr. Newton.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

He undressed his master to see if he was wounded, but not so much as a bruise was to be found, either on the head, body, or limbs, which was surprising, as he must have been dashed against the rocks; even the hands were uninjured, and it was difficult to explain how the engineer showed no traces of the efforts which he must have made to get out of reach of the breakers.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The hypothesis that, at bottom, things proceed in such a moral fashion that human reason must be right, is a mere piece of good-natured and simple-minded trustfulness, the result of the belief in Divine truthfulness—God regarded as the Creator of all things.—These concepts are our inheritance from a former existence in a Beyond.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Reaching what appeared to be a doorway I discovered that it was but an opening upon an immense inner chamber which towered from the first floor, two stories below me, to the dome-like roof of the building, high above my head.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The passions of Valentinian were impatient of control; and he credulously listened to the assurances of his favorite, that if the government of Valeria, and the direction of the work, were intrusted to the zeal of his son Marcellinus, the emperor should no longer be importuned with the audacious remonstrances of the Barbarians.
— 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

But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then Mary was reminded of the boy Rajah again.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In 711, learning that Roderick was busy in the north of his dominions, where, there was a rising of the Basques, Mūsa despatched one of his generals, the Moor Tārik, with 7,000 troops, most of whom were also Moors, [3] to make another raid upon Andalusia.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Before this had cleared off night came on, so that the remainder of the bends and doubles of the Pimichin river must still remain in obscurity.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

And here was matter for high debate which lasted all through the trades, through the horse latitudes, and into the region of the brave west winds till the Patriarch had made more than half her casting.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various

They assured him that, although the Americans recognised the rights of the Boers as well as those of the Uitlanders, unless he could in some way meet the demand of the unenfranchised people of the Transvaal he could not expect their support when the revolution came.
— from A Woman's Part in a Revolution by Natalie Harris Hammond

Presently he slipped into the quiet water; the circles widened about him, and the lotus-flower rocked on the breast of the strange upheaval, but after that the intruder scarcely moved.
— from The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

And in the lonely Highland dell Still do they keep the Turtle-shell; And long the story will repeat Of the blind
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

"God moves in a mysterious way" is the last resort of the believer.
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

Luxembourg, the , Barras's social life in, i. 290; Gohier and Moulins withdraw to, ii. 108; Moreau commanding guard at, 108; the First Consul installed at, 124; residence of the Bonapartes at, 195.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

All the evidence needed to convict them of the robbery of the Bailey home was discovered on their persons, for they had been tempted to take several little valuable bits of jewelry that fastened the crime on them when found in their pockets.
— from The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

The periods of rotation of the ball and of the ring were also fixed.
— from Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden

Go, rest on the bosom Of some favorite flower; Go, sport in the sunlight Your brief little hour; For your day, at the longest, Is scarcely a span: Then go and enjoy it; Be gay while you can.
— from Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur