To the same purpose they think the apostle said, "For God hath concluded all men in unbelief, that He may have mercy upon all," [891] signifying that no one should be condemned by God.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“I was about observing, sir, before Captain Boomer’s facetious interruption, that spite of my best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse; the truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping wound as surgeon ever saw; more than two feet and several inches long.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Upon which the Cambro-Briton, who on this occasion would have made no submission to the Great Mogul, surrounded with his guards, thanked the doctor for his mediation, and acknowledged himself in the wrong for calling the image of Cot a peast, “but,” said he, “I spoke by metaphor, and parable, and comparison, and types; as we signify meekness by a lamb, lechery by a goat, and craftiness by a fox; so we liken ignorance to an ass, and brutality to a bear, and fury to a tiger; therefore I made use of these similes to express my sentiments (look you), and what I said before Cot, I will not unsay before man nor peast neither.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Second Brigade, Col. Emory Upton.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

7, should still be called the son of Hadad.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Others proposed, that on the day of the funeral, they should lay aside their gold rings, and wear rings of iron; and others, that his bones should be collected by the priests of the principal colleges.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Broðer , sb. brother, PP; gen. s. , C2; broðere , pl. , S; breðere , S; brethir , S3; breðre , S; briðere , S; bretheren , C2, PP.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

To say that active occupations should be concerned primarily with wholes is another statement of the same principle.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Seeing this, the Tyrians decided not to fight a battle at sea, but closely blocked up the passage for ships with as many triremes as the mouths of their harbour would contain, and guarded it, so that the enemy’s fleet might not find an anchorage in any of the harbours.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

were as follows:—Coals were a great national asset, and the exportation should be checked, and even if exported under the 1s.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

On the present occasion we are principally guided in our selection by chronological order, owing to which this Chapter may have an anomalous appearance, as containing the early voyages of the English to the Western or Atlantic coast of Africa, while the title of the Book to which it belongs was confined to the Discoveries and Conquests of the Portuguese, and other European Nations, in India; yet the arrangement has been formed on what we have considered as sufficient grounds, more especially as resembling the steps by which the Portuguese were led to their grand discovery of the route by sea to India.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

She belonged to that class of unconscious criminals who should be confined in a house of correction and not allowed to be at large.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

Pirates and smugglers coming down from Canada with loads of goods in small boats, carried their boats across this piece and would get away from the officers, or whoever happened to be chasing them.
— from The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

EARS—Small, carried erect or semi-erect, but never drop, and should be carried tightly up.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

One building escaped, a quaint stone structure erected in the center of the stone bridge crossing the River Ouse and supposed to have been used as a chapel by the early monks.
— from British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

But Shibli Bagarag cried, 'No jest, O purveyor to the outward of us!
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 by George Meredith

This restriction upon our increase loaded our service with difficulties, and presented almost insurmountable barriers to the attainment of that knowledge of tactics, in which every Marine Officer and Soldier should be conversant previous to his embarkation.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major

The room the doctor entered was small, but cheerful; the floor uncarpeted, but clean, and the window framed a patch of sky over the chimney-pots below.
— from The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various