But he alone will prove capable of silencing and quieting their consciences, that shall succeed in possessing himself of the freedom of men.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whatever seeds it peradventure have Of its own fiery exhalations.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Of these we still see one in the Company of the Holy Spirit, a scene on the wall over the high-altar, containing the Passion of Christ, with many horses, and the Thieves on the Cross, a work held very beautiful by reason of the thought that he showed in placing Him on the Cross.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

There are magnificent ruins of this city still to be seen, in part hewn out of the solid rock.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It may be imagined that I succeeded in putting him off.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Shall I put him off, sir?
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

Whoever kills the king, and succeeds in placing himself on that throne, is immediately acknowledged as king; all the amirs, wazirs, soldiers, and peasants instantly obey and submit to him, and consider him as being as much their sovereign as they did their former prince, and obey his orders implicitly.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

With unnatural strength he had succeeded in propping himself on his elbow.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and so I put him off the scent.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

[V-12] " As they were wont to be " is a particularly fine rhetorical climax to what our young friend so innocently prides himself on having accomplished.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

humiliations,—though he was so ignorant that he scarcely understood the Latin of his mass-book,—though he fell under the control of a cunning Jesuit and of a more cunning old woman,—he succeeded in passing himself off on his people as a being above humanity.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various

On his return he visited Switzerland and several of the German musical centres; and after a short stay in Paris, he once more crossed the Channel, arriving in London in April, 1832.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

"We thank you very much," said Ishmael, placing his own and the judge's cards in the hands of the consul, who alighted, went up the marble steps to the front door, and rang.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

But business is business; so I passed him over the stock and said nothing—nor did he—neither there nor here.
— from Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte

The tale tells of many old customs: how on the night of November 2d, the Brotherhood of the Rosary of the Dawn rises to pray for the souls in Purgatory, how one of the sodality goes from house to house to rouse the others, striking a bell and singing: "I am at your door with a bell; I do not call you; it does not call you; 'T is your mother, 't is your father who call you,
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

She Refuses to Give UP the Cosmos The Cave Man The Little Group Gives a Pagan Masque Sympathy Blouses, Bulgars, and Buttermilk Twilight Sleep Intuition Stimulating Influences Politics Hermione on Psychical Research Envoy Hermione the Deathless HERMIONE PROEM (Introducing some of Hermione's Friends)
— from Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis

Philo waged a kind of submarine warfare there until grasping his snout, I pulled him out and refused all his further appeals for readmission.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

Anna contrived to be sent into the town by Patience on an errand, and she managed to linger so long in the neighbourhood of Mr. Dare's office, gazing in at the shops in West Street (if Patience had only seen her!), that Herbert Dare passed.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.