Then the Beggar swung his staff also, and struck a mighty blow at Robin, which the yeoman turned.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

But the first condition of such aid must be a real, direct, aesthetic charm in the thing itself; unless it has that charm, unless some purely artistic quality went to its original making, no merely antiquarian effort can ever give it an aesthetic value, or make it a proper subject of aesthetic criticism.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Now I wonder whether you ever shed as much blood as runs in a cock's veins, or ever looked on war; to stretch a point in your favour, I dare say you may have been corporal in charge of a bit of wall somewhere.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian

.. .. 1,000 850 12 To this list, some seven or eight of the Company’s tradesmen, similarly armed, might be added; raising the number of the almost factitious shares held by functionaries to about 5200, and increasing the votes commanded by them, from its present total of 1068 to upwards of 1100.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

But that's nothing," she added more briskly, "and remember, I've told you exactly what to do; so you can't make any mistake.
— from Jimbo: A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood

On the 20th of March the new Parliament met, and the King addressed it in a speech in which he announced his intention of proceeding to Ireland as soon as might be, and recommended to the prompt attention of the two Houses the question of the settlement of the royal revenue and of the enactment of an amnesty.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

[178] bears out the description so aptly made by a recent writer: "The streets are the proverbial schools of vice and crime.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

Marine Terrace being a comparatively new row, the back premises were still in a somewhat unfinished condition, and instead of gardens and flower-beds, your eye was greeted by heaps of sand and mortar, bricks and rubbish, not yet carted away by the builders, which, added to piles of empty bottles and old hampers, gave a rather forlorn appearance to the place.
— from Bosom Friends: A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil

And yet, in direct conflict with it, there is the fact that the Andover creed, to which all professors of the institution must give their assent, involves the doctrines of the Trinity and Vicarious Atonement; that "by nature every man is personally depraved, destitute of holiness, alike opposed to God; and that, previously to the renewing agency of the Divine Spirit, all his moral actions are adverse to the character and glory of God; that, being morally incapable of recovering the image of his Creator, which was lost in Adam, every man is justly exposed to eternal damnation; so that, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God; that God of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, selected some to everlasting life, and that he entered into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of this state of sin and misery by a Redeemer."
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

If such were the feelings of the Athenians towards their favourite deity, what must have been their horror when they awoke one morning to find that all the busts of Hermes, with one or two exceptions, were shattered and mutilated beyond all recognition.
— from Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides

But the administration wished to secure from the Whigs not only votes of supplies and men, but a resolution declaring that the war was just and right.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various