She is nulli secunda , a rare creature, a phoenix, the sole commandress of his thoughts, queen of his desires, his only delight: as [5400] Triton now feelingly sings, that lovesick sea-god: Candida Leucothoe placet, et placet atra Melaene, Sed Galatea placet longe magis omnibus una.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The object of the donor was to "call out the best efforts of the highest talent and the ripest scholarship of the world to illustrate from science, or from any department of knowledge, and to demonstrate the divine origin and the authority of the Christian Scriptures; and, further, to show how both science and revelation coincide and prove the existence, {vi} the providence, or any or all of the attributes of the only living and true God, 'infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.'"
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

Among the natives and bush negroes, descendants of runaway slaves, in Guiana, the Moravians did a noble work.―Catholic South America remained closed against Protestant missions.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

[313] The sky was beautifully clear, but rocks and slides and ragged cracks and pits at the cliff edge made his feet wary, and countless stars only served to deepen their shadows.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood

This disposition was so general that "Werther" itself exerted a powerful influence, because it everywhere struck a responsive chord and publicly and tangibly exhibited the true inwardness of a morbid youthful illusion.
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

Sometimes, also, religious ceremonies are preserved which took rise in another zone; and the Muyscas, according to ancient traditions, made Bochica, their first legislator and the founder of their worship, arrive from the plains situate to the east of the Cordilleras.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

After having obtained the approbation of the people, Dandolo proposed to the Crusaders to assist the republic in subduing a revolted city, and promised to put off the entire execution of the treaty until God, by their common conquests, should have given them the means of fulfilling their promises.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

And on so narrow a point did the issue stand that to this day certain persons declare that it—or part of it—did happen; for why, and on what account, they ask, should an experienced connoisseur (and such undoubtedly was the Duke of Belleville) present a young lady previously unknown to him (or, for the matter of that, any young lady at all, whether known or not known to him) with such a rare, costly, and precious thing as the Queen Bess flagon?
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

Here there was rapid interchange and improvement of physical and mental attainments, mental stimulation and rivalry, change and progress.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

Dick pocketed it for proof of his adventure when he should again reach camp, and, picking up his rifle, climbed upon Spraddle's back, turned him around, and drove down the defile.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor