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— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

My pearl was dew and fire, the velvety green of moss, the soft whiteness of lilies, and the distilled hues and sweetness of a thousand roses.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

It was a glorious view, and we often directed our steps to the summit from whence it was seen during our month’s stay with our loved and delightful host.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Upon that sea went our Lord dry feet; and there he took up Saint Peter, when he began to drench within the sea, and said to him, Modice fidei , quare dubitasti ?
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

For I suspect that many will not be 373 satisfied with the simpler way of life.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

We can clearly understand why a species when once lost should never reappear, even if the very same conditions of life, organic and inorganic, should recur.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

My conqueror, who, as he afterwards told me, had been struck with my appearance, and liked me as much as he could think of liking any one in my supposed way of life, asked me briskly at once, if I would be kept by him, and that he would take a lodging for me directly, and relieve me from any engagements he presumed I might be under to the house.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

If she went on like this, soon a nimbus might be expected round her head, was there already, if one didn't know it was the sun through the tree-trunks catching her sandy hair.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Here may we see us needeth not greatly to seek far out to know sundry natures, but to Holy Church, unto our Mother's breast: that is to say, unto our own soul where our Lord dwelleth; and there shall we find all now in faith and in understanding.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The ruins of the great church are the most impressive and melancholy portion—doubly so when one learns that the earthquake of 1812 tumbled the seven stone domes of the roof upon the congregation while at mass, crushing out forty lives.
— from On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

"I am under a spell," he would say to himself, and stride more quickly over the heather, and then catch himself smiling at the thought of some word or look of Osla's.
— from Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

It was a most exciting scene as the mounted scouts were observed looking about for something in the shape of a path by which to descend the cliff which formed at this part almost a sheer precipice of some 300 feet.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

The strangest fellow and the strangest way of life, and yet I do not believe a black mark was ever put against him; the shiftiness was all for nothing.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

"Even when he repulsed me," pursued Janet, "with his sordid way of looking at everything, still I tried to cling to him, to shut my eyes."
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips

That he should use the conventional supernatural machinery is natural and permissible, though tedious to the modern reader, who finds it hard to sympathize with outworn literary conventions.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

The dead autocrat was reverently borne between two solid walls of living people to the little cemetery on the high hill overlooking the river and with tribute of tongue and pen was laid to rest, but beneath him the struggle kept on.
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

Here, at all events, was an improvement; instead of our continuing to steer W. by S., or at most W. by N., the schooner would often lay as high up as N.W., and even N.W. by N.
— from Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

You have the immortal rind to suppose that I will stand for being nagged and bullied by you whenever your suicidal way of living brings on an attack of indigestion!
— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

[70] The republican sentiments which animated him appear in the present of a flag to one of our battalions, with a simple wreath of laurel blending with a civic crown, and the words beneath, “ No other .”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner