And He shut him up and set a seal upon him till the thousand years should be fulfilled, that he should seduce the nations no more,"— i.e. he is shut up till the thousand years
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

You could have got fifteen to one yesterday, but the price has become shorter and shorter, until you can hardly get three to one now.” “Hum!” said Holmes.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"You that have followed me in the Regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you shall also sit upon twelve Thrones;" And of St. Paul (Ephes. 6.15.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I saw him, his arms spread out to their widest extent, his legs stretched apart, standing upright before an enormous pedestal, high enough and black enough to bear a gigantic statue of Pluto.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

A large section of the audience expressed their indignation at such a slur upon the travelers by noisy shouts of dissent and cries of, 'Don't put it!' 'Withdraw!'
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

As soon as lady Feng heard these words, her whole face beamed with smiles, and she unconsciously halted her steps, while she proceeded to ask: "How is it that, both your mother and yourself, tattle about me behind my back, without rhyme or reason?"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Her eyes, her eyes were perhaps her best feature; they were such a strange uncommon colour—greeny blue with little gold points in them.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"The differences between one nation and another, whether in intellect, commerce, art, morals, or general temperament, ultimately depend, not upon any mysterious properties of race, nationality, or any other unknown and unintelligible abstractions, but simply and solely upon the { 236} physical circumstances to which they are exposed.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

As soon as the cart came opposite the spot the old man rose from his lofty seat, and standing up said in a loud voice, "I am the sage Lirgandeo," and without another word the cart then passed on.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The housekeeper and the two other servants who were in charge of the nursery, remained sitting up all night; and from that time a servant always sat up in the nursery until I was about fourteen.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"If I must, I must," said he, and with a desperate bound he leaped on shore and sped up the hill with might and main.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.

So that almost every clergyman in our country has had an opportunity to acquire some knowledge of the doctrines and revelations made by the Lord through Emanuel Swedenborg for the benefit of men in this new age—doctrines very different from those formulated in the creeds of bygone centuries—and thousands of our clergy are beginning to realize, that we must return to the rational and plain doctrines taught in the Sacred Scriptures, and summed up by the Lord when on earth in the Two Great Commandments, Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy might and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself, and that we must commence the new life by repentance, or by being willing to see our evils and to shun them as sins against God.
— from Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis

Then the cloud vanished, leaving the countryside sparkling and serene under a stainless evening sky.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

The woman gave a violent start, and sat up on her cot, with a gasp: it was indeed the speculator's lost daughter!
— from Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

He stared, shook his head slowly, smiled good-humoredly, took off his great round spectacles, and shut up his book.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everywhere there are proofs of how all have been allowed to suffer and smart under it.
— from A Winter Tour in South Africa by Frederick Young

But, I understand, the great disturbers of the room where Mad. de ____ sleeps are two chanoines, whose noses are so sonorous and so untuneable as to produce a sort of duet absolutely incompatible with sleep; and one of the company is often deputed to interrupt the serenade by manual application mais tout en badinant et avec politesse
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

It’s just as if it lay there still, and swelled up nearly as big as a cannon ball, and that lump goes all dead and dumb in needles and pins like for ever so long.
— from !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by George Manville Fenn

We seniors are sandwiched up with intermediates and juniors so that our influence may permeate through the school."
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil