they are blinded by Satan.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

[ This Memnon had several monuments, and one of them appears, both by Strabo and Diodorus, to have been in Syria, and not improbably in this very place.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Miss Douce reached high to take a flagon, stretching her satin arm, her bust, that all but burst, so high.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

But we should guard against making it the Absolute behind Becoming, simply because it happens to be the highest and most recent evolutionary form (Aph. 709).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

How can it ever be suspected that a brute beast should have done the deed?
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

She steers a various course among the foes; Now here, now there, her conqu’ring brother shows; Now with a straight, now with a wheeling flight, She turns, and bends, but shuns the single fight.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Take a gallon of flour, a pound and a half of butter, six eggs, thirty quinces, three pound of sugar, half an ounce of cinamon, half an ounce of ginger, half an ounce of cloves, and some rose-water, make them in a Pye or Tart, and being baked stew on double refined sugar.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

Bert's and Nan's gifts were wrapped up long before Freddie could make up his mind whether to take a blue bug, striped with green, or a purple one, spotted with yellow, finally making up his mind that the last was best.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Laura Lee Hope

Part 69 When all the jurors have voted, the attendants take the urn containing the effective votes and discharge them on to a reckoning board having as many cavities as there are ballot balls, so that the effective votes, whether pierced or solid, may be plainly displayed and easily counted.
— from The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle

It is, after Roveredo, straight up the Adige, by Bolzano... say “Botzen.”
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith

[298] The interest of the public in Virginia remained suspended till the year 1602, when Captain Bartholomew Gosnold undertook a voyage thither, and brought back such brilliant reports of the beauty and fertility of the country, that the dormant attention of the English toward this part of the world was again aroused.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

I tried to find out if they'd put anyone into the apartment, but Balling sobered up a bit by that time and shut down on the talk.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

The adventurers brought back so glowing a report of the harbor, with its beautiful and fertile islands, the rivers and the rich soil, that the colonists quite regretted that they had not found that spot for their settlement.
— from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott