Now, most, certainly a nation or sect professing a religion so easily changed, and possessing a character so fickle, or so irrepressible as to yield on every slight occasion, and embrace every opportunity to imbibe new religious ideas and doctrines, would easily, if not naturally, slide into the adoption of the religious system then promulgated in Alexandria under the name of Budhism, and afterward remodeled or transformed, and called Christianity. 17.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into artificial oyster beds.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place ; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Felt by several persons at rest; strong enough for the duration or direction to be appreciable.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

It seems perverse, and readily suggests evil intentions.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

For I will turn my face from them, And they shall defile my secret place, And robbers shall enter into it and profane it.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

We might almost fancy that, in the eyes of that submissive and superstitious people, a renown so extraordinary appeared like some thing supernatural; that they regarded it as beyond their reach; that they believed they could only attack and demolish it from a distance; and in short, that against that old guard, that living fortress, that column of granite, as it had been styled by its leader, human efforts were impotent, and that cannon alone could demolish it.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

His odd literary fancy for Don Quixote, for Scott's poems and romances she encouraged, quietly eliminating the dime novels he had read indiscriminately with these.
— from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine

Might we not also fancy that, in the eyes of that passive and superstitious people, a renown so extraordinary appeared like something supernatural?
— from The Two Great Retreats of History by George Grote