156 A philosopher will observe, that their credulity and his success would tend more strongly to fortify the assurance of his divine mission, that his interest and religion were inseparably connected, and that his conscience would be soothed by the persuasion, that he alone was absolved by the Deity from the obligation of positive and moral laws.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then they rose, and she took his arm with a bright nod to Mile.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Margaret seemed to find it a little hard to tell hers, and waved a brake before her face, as if to disperse imaginary gnats, while she said slowly, "I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things,—nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"I love these stormy nights," Petronella had said, "with the snow blowing, and the wind, and the house all warm and bright."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Chatham, our brave Chatham himself, comes down to the House, all wrapt and bandaged; he "has crawled out in great bodily suffering," and so on;— forgets , says Walpole, that he is acting the sick man; in the fire of debate, snatches his arm from the sling, and oratorically swings and brandishes it!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Here we were called to Dinner, and Sir Roger ended the Discourse of this Gentleman, by telling me, as we followed the Servant, that this his Ancestor was a brave Man, and narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars; 'For,' said he, 'he was sent out of the Field upon a private Message, the Day before the Battel of Worcester .'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Vasudeva was sitting in the hut and weaving a basket.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

"The gold I got the night before is still there for me," thought he, and went and brought it out, but how shocked he was when he saw that it likewise had again turned into coal.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

[Westminster] near the said church, with a soler and chamber at one end of the hall, and with a buttery and cellar at the other.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

And though her aunt was always bent on keeping herself and everybody else at work, she did not now show any particular desire for breaking off Ellen from her studies; and was generally willing, when the work was pretty well done up, that she should saddle the Brownie and be off to Alice or Mrs. Vawse.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

She had equally strong letters from her friends in England, which Melville showed to her, and was advised by Maitland of Lethington to get away from Court for fear of [271] Bothwell.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

It was a lie, but a splendid lie, and she told herself as well as Brother Spencer that she believed it.
— from The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

Put these on with the other vegetables, the herbs, and water, and boil slowly three or four hours.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

| Says Doctor Warneck: “It has been a laborious work of patience that the missionaries have done in these great countries, industrially so poor,--a work made difficult by the great inconstancy of the Hottentots and the strong opposition of the Herero, as well as by the entanglements of war,--and more than once in Herero Land the workers were on a point of withdrawing.
— from The Story of Lutheran Missions by Elsie Singmaster

He stood for a moment, looked down on the floor of the House and watched a Black Parliament at work making laws to govern the children of the men who had created the Republic—watched them through fetid smoke, the vapors of stale whiskey and the deafening roar of half-drunken brutes as they voted millions in taxes, their leaders had already stolen.
— from The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Pliers A blow from this tool does not shatter the tool handle as would a blow from a hammer.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster