For as all the Church, because it was made a Church by the death of Him that gave it life, is wont to bear the sign of His Holy Cross on the forehead, to the end, that it may, by the constant protection of His banner, be defended from the assaults of evil spirits, and by the frequent admonition of the same be taught, in like manner, to crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts; 983 so also it behoves those, who having either taken the vows of a monk, or having the degree of a clerk, must needs curb themselves the more strictly by continence, for the Lord's sake, to bear each one of them on his head, by the tonsure, the form of the crown of thorns which He bore on His head in His Passion, that He might bear the thorns and thistles of our sins, that is, that he might bear them away and take them from us; to the end that they may show on their foreheads that they also willingly, and readily, endure all scoffing and [pg 372] reproach for his sake; and that they may signify that they await always ‘the crown of eternal life, which God hath promised to them that love him,’ 984 and that for the sake of attaining thereto they despise both the evil and the good of this world.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He first starved, and then tricked me; and if I could I’d kill him.’ ‘All right, and very laudable,’ said Squeers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

" 2 Then Adam and Eve took each a fig and went towards the cave; the time was about the setting of the sun; and their thoughts made them long to eat of the fruit.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

RUTH comes slowly in, and stands stoically with FALDER on one side and the three men on the other.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

More than once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder whether the whole of the past days had not been a dream.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

I determined to go to Spa, and to take measures so that I might go there with three or four hundred ducats in my purse.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Up, and got ready, and eat our breakfast; and then took coach: and the poor, as they did yesterday, did stand at the coach to have something given them, as they do to all great persons; and I did give them something: and the town musique did also come and play: but, Lord!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At the same moment my hostess appeared and returned my salutation with a grace and dignity that sent a thrill to my heart.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

TN: period invisible in original I greet the postman with a smile, and try to make him feel that he has rendered me an appreciable service, as indeed he has.
— from Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by Frank Boreham

"That sounds as though there might be a slim chance for those herds to be left alone.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

The latter church is strong all through the mountains.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 by Various

The glade was, in fact, a valley-bottom, thinned of undergrowth and set with tall trees; and the stream such a stream as tumbles through many an English deer-park.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The remark just made as regards the Sun seems to have some application to the Moon.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers

Sitting on the earth the mountaineer cut the bullet out, bandaged the wound with the rags of his shirt, and taking the man in his arms walked down the mountain into his enemies' camp; walked through it unmolested, carrying his bloody burden to the commanding officer's tent door.
— from The Gilded Chair: A Novel by Melville Davisson Post

There is just a grain or two of truth in what they have been saying,” she added, turning to Mr Snow.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

It would ill become me, sir, who so highly approved then, and who so highly approve now the change introduced by communicating to the two Houses by message instead of by speech, to say any thing that might imply a disapprobation of it.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

There were three plumbers (it always takes three plumbers to do a job; the first man comes on ahead to tell you that the second man will be there soon, the second man comes to say that he can't stop, and the third man follows to ask if the first man has been there); and that faithful, dumb animal kept them pinned up in the kitchen—fancy wanting to keep plumbers in a house longer than is absolutely necessary!—for five hours, until my uncle came home; and the bill ran: "Self and two men engaged six hours, repairing boiler-tap, 18s.; material, 2d.; total 18s.
— from Evergreens by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome