How a conference grows into something useful, depends in part on the features of the software used by the online service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

[person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour[obs3], heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort[Fr], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist[obs3], theophobist[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But no such uniform distribution is possible.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

Several ultimately died in prison, for exercising their ministry in private, contrary to law; but a considerable number of them found an asylum in New England.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

The Cambria , which had been, it seems, unaccountably detained in port nearly a month after the period assigned for her departure, was early on the morning of the fatal calamity pursuing at a great distance ahead of us the same course with ourselves; but her bulwarks on the weather side having been suddenly driven in, by a heavy sea breaking over her quarter, Captain Cook, in his anxiety to give ease to his labouring [Pg 71] vessel, was induced to go completely out of his course by throwing the brig on the opposite tack, by which means alone he was brought in sight of us.
— from The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend by Duncan McGregor

This is shown by an entry in Domesday: "De hac terra [Longedune] tempore Regis Edwardi tenebant ix liberi homines xviii hidas et secabant uno die in pratis domini sui et faciebant servitium sicut eis precipiebatur."
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

"Victory is in the hands of Almighty God; but bravery, loyalty, and struggle unto death, I promise, on behalf of your majesty's army."
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

O thou that with the witchery of thy face Hast made of me thy servant unto death, I pray thee pause, ere, musical of breath, And rapt of utterance, thou condemn indeed My venturous wooing, and the wanton speed With which I greet thee, dear and tender soul!
— from A Lover's Litanies by Eric Mackay

If we have been successful in the West, it has not been without protracted efforts and immense expenditure of life and means—a long and bloody struggle, the uncertainty of which has not tended to strengthen us during its pendency.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

"Tell me," she urged, "did I presume too much?
— from Miss Primrose: A Novel by Roy Rolfe Gilson

[558] Shell-shock; unconsciousness: Dysbasia, in part hysterical, in part organic (?).
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard