They also made use of these trumpets in their sacred ministrations, when they were bringing their sacrifices to the altar as well on the Sabbaths as on the rest of the [festival] days; and now it was that Moses offered that sacrifice which was called the Passover in the Wilderness, as the first he had offered after the departure out of Egypt.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When we have seen that a tree is a beech, we do not need to look again in order to ascertain whether it is also not a beech; thought alone makes us know that this is impossible.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

But politics, and policy, and piety, Are topics which I sometimes introduce, Not only for the sake of their variety, But as subservient to a moral use; Because my business is to dress society, And stuff with sage that very verdant goose.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And when they show'd me this abhorred pit, They told me, here, at dead time of the night, A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes, Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins, Would make such fearful and confused cries As any mortal body hearing it Should straight fall mad or else die suddenly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I cannot think of your offer without equal concern and gratitude: for nothing, but to avoid my utter ruin, can make me think of a change of condition; and so, sir, you ought not to accept of such an involuntary compliance, as mine would be, were I, upon the last necessity, to yield to your very generous proposal.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Sioux we expected to meet at the next River—much Stone on the S. S. of the River, we Saw one hare to day—our Perogues Called at the Island for the Elk, Soon after we passed the Island Colter ran up the bank & reported that the Sioux had taken his horse, we Soon after Saw five indians on the bank; who expressed a wish to come on board, we informed them we were friends, and wished to Continue So, we were not abraid any Indians—Some of their young Men had Stolen a horse Sent by their Great Father to their great Chief, and we Should not Speak to them any more untill the horse was returned to us again—passed a Island about 11/2 m. long on which we Saw maney elk & Buffalow, we Came too off the Mouth of a Small river, The Teton of the burnt woods is Camped 2 Miles up this river, this river we Call Teton is 70 Yds wide and corns in on the S W Side-I went on Shore and Smoked with a Chief, Called Buffalow Medison, who Came to See us here.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Complex ideas, as they are made up of simple ones, so they are clear, when the ideas that go to their composition are clear, and the number and order of those simple ideas that are the ingredients of any complex one is determinate and certain.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

They are moral powers because they are made up entirely of the impressions this moral being, the group, arouses in those other moral beings, its individual members; they do not translate the manner in which physical things affect our senses, but the way in which the collective consciousness acts upon individual consciousnesses.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

When at length my variable mode of life was reduced to a more uniform course, the following was nearly the distribution of time which I adopted: I rose every morning before the sun, and passed through a neighboring orchard into a pleasant path, which, running by a vineyard, led towards Chambery.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was nothin' for Ferdy to do then but pull himself together and make us all acquainted.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

They make spreading trees, and noble shades with their well furnish’d and glistering leaves, being set at forty foot distance, but they grow taller, and more upright in the forests, where I have beheld them at eight and ten foot, shoot into very long poles; but neither so apt for timber, nor fuel: The shade unpropitious to corn and grass, but sweet, and of all the rest, most refreshing to the weary shepherd— lentus in umbra , ecchoing Amaryllis with his oten pipe.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

On the side of one bow in the Ashmolean Museum, used for drilling holes, you see them harpooning the whale from their skin boats, and catching birds.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

So they went on and looked before them; and behold, they saw, as they thought, a man upon his knees, with hands and eyes lift up, and speaking, as they thought, earnestly to One that was above.[307] They drew nigh, but could not tell what he said.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Mr. Ross sold the land, and all the rights belonging to it—yes, and the obligations, too; and my uncle bought it.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

A remarkable study of the average mind under stress of battle.... We repeat, a really fine achievement."— London Daily Chronicle.
— from Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

My friend, the Poet, says, that rapidly growing towns are most unfavorable to the imaginative and reflective faculties.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It was evidently, as known by them, a manual used in the catechetical instruction of the young.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

—Dreaming of partridges, is a sign that a man shall have to do with women that are malicious, ungrateful, and void of conscience.
— from The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations. by A. H. Noe