On the legislation of Constantine affecting slavery see De Broglie L’Eglise et l’Empire
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

And isn't it a poor thing to be starting again and I a lonesome fellow will be looking out on women and girls the way the needy fallen spirits do be looking on the Lord? PEGEEN.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Even if we cut through this speculative difficulty by leaving the ultimate reward of real Desert to Divine Justice, we still seem unable to find any clear principles for framing a scale of merit.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He lifted his waters into a high crest and cried aloud to Simois saying, "Dear brother, let the two of us unite to save this man, or he will sack the mighty city of King Priam, and the Trojans will not hold out against him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Tous ces procédés sont des bricolages, les morceaux de papier pris sur des nappes au déjeuner, dans les pages "notes" des agendas, mais ils sont la base d'un processus de mémorisation, d'appropriation personnelle.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Applying himself to a close study of the Vedas , the young yogi listened eagerly to scriptural discussions by learned Brahmins, including a Marhatta pundit named Nag-Bhatta.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Thir wordis spak Juno; and scho tharwith in hy Hir dowbill weyngis with eddir sound dyd bete, Levand the hevynnys, socht to hir hellis sete.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

There is often a slight tinge of blood, due, perhaps, to a rupture of small blood vessels in the mouth of the womb; this is called a show, which some women have for several days before labor commences.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

These streets were so dark, being lit but by some lantern projecting here and there from the angle of a wall, or by the flare of an oil-lamp under a shrine, that Odo, leaning eagerly out, could only now and then catch a sculptured palace-window, the grinning mask on the keystone of an archway, or the gleaming yellowish facade of a church inlaid with marbles.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

What though some hopes may fail, some dreams be lost, Though sometimes happy music break and cease.
— from Songs Ysame by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Trevannion withdrew with a book to the window, and Hamilton sat down by Louis, and took great pains to make him give his mind to his business; and so thoroughly did he succeed with his docile pupil, that, although he had come in rather late, all, with the exception of the imposition, was ready for Mr. Danby by the time the dinner-bell rang.
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May

And the worth while stories do be lasting.
— from Messer Marco Polo by Donn Byrne