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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

(To express, ‘what a car!’
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Yes, that is very likely, Cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the good, but of the evil, which are compelled to wander about such places in payment of the penalty of their former evil way of life; and they continue to wander until through the craving after the corporeal which never leaves them, they are imprisoned finally in another body.
— from Phaedo by Plato

The vast treasure accruing from the various taxes centered in Rome, and the whole was at the disposal of the emperor, without any control.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Smith, I fancy, was more airy, and took the eye with a certain gaiety of person.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Naturally the Englishman was a coarse animal and liked coarseness.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

If there ever was a case—" "Well—what's the use?
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[509] The result of these edicts was a curious one.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Here, leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

They behaved as skilled troops, taking cover with great ingenuity, and returning the attacks of the enemy with amazing coolness and precision.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

The Emperor was also Chief Justice, and questions were being constantly brought to him to decide.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

He was rather addicted to gallantry, and the empress, who always called him master feigned not to notice it, because she did not want the world to know that her charms could no longer captivate her royal spouse, and the more so that the beauty of her numerous family was generally admired.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 07: Venice by Giacomo Casanova

It turned the current to the left, where there evidently was a channel.
— from Ken Ward in the Jungle by Zane Grey

The Minister for the Accidental Accompaniments of the Empire was a clever man—keen, genial, subtle, two-edged, a gentlemanly and not thorough disciple of Machiavel; able to lead parliamentary forlorn hopes and plant flags on breaches, or to cover retreats with brilliant skirmishing; deft, but never deep; much moved too by the opinions of his permanent staff.
— from Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire by Edward Jenkins

Frederick the Second was stirred to great anger, as he had made the Elector the honorary colonel of the Prussian regiment stationed at Wesel, and wrote to Voltaire: “If the Elector were of his way of thinking, he would not have hired his troops to England, but to Prussia; but the Elector was a Catholic and therefore loyal to the Emperor.”
— from A Defence of the Hessians by J. G. (Joseph George) Rosengarten

The marquis grew white to the eyes, with a certain twitching of the lips to be seen as François again asked: "What shall we do with him?
— from The Adventures of François Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

They will consist of those elements which are capable of the greatest hardness towards themselves, and which can guarantee the most enduring will-power.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Many a world movement has been directed by the mind, or minds, of some of these advanced souls who were able to see the ideal of evolution ahead of the race, and by visualizing the same, and concentrating upon it in meditation, actually hastened the progress of the evolutionary wave, and caused to actually manifest that which they saw, and upon which they had meditated.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

He talks English with a cockney accent, not invariably dropping his aitches, but only now and then.
— from Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham