The Spanish morning star; a destructive engine resembling the figure of a star, of which there were many thousands on board, and all of them with poisoned points; and were designed to strike at the enemy as they came on board, in case of a close attack.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Accordingly, though the obscurity of the divine word has certainly this advantage, that it causes many opinions about the truth to be started and discussed, each reader seeing some fresh meaning in it, yet, whatever is said to be meant by an obscure passage should be either confirmed by the testimony of obvious facts, or should be asserted in other and less ambiguous texts.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The necessary assumption of a future. Such a disembodied existence, removed by its nature from the sphere of empirical evidence, might nevertheless be actual, and grounds of a moral or metaphysical type might be sought for postulating its reality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

They act like strong blasts of wind applied to embers almost extinguished, which, instead of reviving the flame, scatter and destroy every remaining particle of fire.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

bezieht sich auf die Eisenbahnwaggons relates to the railway wagons Beziehung Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschaft industrial relations
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I've seen a dying eye Run round and round a room In search of something, as it seemed, Then cloudier become;
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

The next day Anne made her pies and lady fingers, did up her muslin dress, and swept and dusted every room in the house . . .
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

" So, also, does enlightened reason convince all that there will be a separation of the righteous from the wicked in their future conditions.
— from The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven by D. Mortimore

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— from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey

When I trod the ship's deck without my child; when I saw receding from me the shores where he was left alone, a prey to every danger,--that moment--when I broke loose from home and country forever, the persecutions and bitternesses of a whole lifetime all came back; that moment set the seal to our separation, and darkened every remembrance of the past to me.
— from A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner

Et pour tenir moyennant layde de Dieu, consentement et accord de leurs maiestez, tout le peuple en repos pour servir a Dieu et rendre lobeyssance deue a leursd es maiestes, faire obeyr la justice, tant de ses Cours de parlement que aultres des juges et magistratz.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Drawn up in two ranks the twenty men presented a striking array, for in the forefront stood the governor, the elder, the surgeon, Winslow, Allerton, Warren, Hopkins, Howland, Alden, and Peter Browne, ancestor of John Brown of Ossawatomie; while the file closers, if not men of equal note in affairs, were each one a sturdy and determined Englishman, ready to fight till the death and never guess that he could be conquered.
— from Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

The Cabots brought home three natives of Newfoundland, who “were clothed in beasts’ skins, and did eate raw flesh, and, spake such speach that no man could understand them; and in their demeanour like to bruite beastes.”
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper