In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the p�an of the bells— Of the bells:— Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells:— Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells:— To the tolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The half extinct spirit of royalty roused itself in the minds of men; and they, willing slaves, self-constituted subjects, were ready to bend their necks to the yoke.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

'Where did he tell you so?' 'Outside,' replied Riderhood, always beating it out, with his head determinedly set askew, and his eyes watchfully dividing their attention between his two auditors, 'outside the door of the Six Jolly Fellowships, towards a quarter after twelve o'clock at midnight—but I will not in my conscience undertake to swear to so fine a matter as five minutes—on the night when he picked up the body.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It may also be premised that the sizes of rugs run from about three feet to six feet wide by four to ten feet long.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Thus with Sugríva, from the side Of Rishyamúka, Ráma hied, And stood before Kishkindhá's gate Where Báli kept his regal state.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Canto LXVII begins thus: “Hanumán thus addressed by the great-souled son of Raghu related to the son of Raghu all that Sítá had said.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Such traditions, however, would always be survivals or revivals rather than genuine expressions of life, because mind must either represent nature and the conditions of action or else be content to persist precariously and without a function, like a sort of ghost.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

from the size of rose river at this place and it's direction I have no doubt
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And this leads me to the second thing, namely, That God makes a man righteous by possessing[3] of him with a principle of righteousness, even with the spirit of righteousness (Rom 4:4,5).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

That was really why she accompanied me, that first day, to assure herself that I was going to be placed among a "perfectly horrid set of rude ruffians—ghetto boys, and the like!"
— from The Seven-Branched Candlestick: The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel

Wis 5:6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Speaking of religion, Robert said, ‘Grey is not one of us;’ and Catherine, restrained by a hundred ties of training and temperament, would not surrender herself, and could not if she would.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Return In his own words, “A personal Deity is the soul of Natural Religion; a personal Saviour—the real living Christ—is the soul of Revealed Religion.”
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

Such a crowd of guests were making their way up the staircase, that Hilary and her father could only move forward a step at the time, but after they had shaken hands with a stout lady and a thin gentleman at the head of the stairs, there was a sudden thinning off, for a suite of reception rooms opened out of the hall, and the guests floated away in different directions.
— from Sisters Three by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The inhabitants of the rock had no need of fire in those days, for the sun beat down on them strongly, and there was no night; it was not until many, many years had elapsed that an old man named Laki Oi invented a method of obtaining fire by means of friction produced by pulling a strip of rattan rapidly back and forth beneath a piece of dry wood.
— from Folk-lore in Borneo A Sketch by William Henry Furness

[212] increase however his sense of responsibility to the place, of which he is now more exclusively than before a part—that he belongs to it, its great memories, great dim purposes; deepen the consciousness he had on first coming hither of a demand in the world about him, whereof the very stones are emphatic, to which no average human creature could be sufficient; of reproof, reproaches, of this or that in himself.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater