After that certain Churches had renounced this universall Power of the Pope, one would expect in reason, that the Civill Soveraigns in all those Churches, should have recovered so much of it, as (before they had unadvisedly let it goe) was their own Right, and in their own hands.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The Housekeeper In a very big house the housekeeper usually lives in the house.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

She could see, too, how white Ilyin was, and how he twisted his upper lip in the effort to smile.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His grandson Jacob took it with him when he fled to his uncle Laban in Mesopotamia, and used it as a pillow when, in the vicinity of Luz, he had his celebrated vision.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

They let their beards grow to an enormous length; their hair, uncombed, lies in a disorderly manner on their shoulders; their countenances are marked with the strongest lines of dejection and melancholy; and their habitations and household furniture are such as are only fitted to answer the demands of mere necessity.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

sīc opīnor; ā prīncipiō ōrdiāmur , Ph. 2, 44, would you like to have us look into your record from boyhood?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

These, and all such writers of society, whose new works glow like the rich texture of a just-woven carpet, must be content to relinquish their charm, for every reader, after an age or two, and could hardly be supposed to retain any portion of it for a mind that had utterly lost its estimate of modes and manners.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By what modes of reasoning their creed is supposed to be established they have usually little idea: but they firmly believe, as they are constantly assured, that no one who knows what Science is can pretend to credit an antiquated doctrine which she has entirely exploded.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

And yet "the distinctive character of our times," he urges, "lies in the vast and constantly increasing part which is played by natural knowledge.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

The danger was indeed great that the influence of the schools and the force of traditional forms would tend to mechanical routine, but it afforded another proof of Mozart's creative nature, that his unintermittent labour in mastering the technicalities of his art never interfered with the spiritual side of his genius.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

All the great difficulties of theology had ugly likenesses in infidel philosophy.
— from Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

And if it be thought that this narrative treats him unkindly, let it be written that, three months later, he was badly wounded while performing a very gallant action.
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter

To thee has Umlimo left it.”
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

Though he uttered language I wouldn't wish to repeat, about the children of Israel and about me for bringin' of 'em up.
— from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley

It is necessary to trace his unhappy life in some detail, though the particulars are not abundant.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

It was, in fact, the guileless Alphonse's chief tribulation that, however industriously he cultivated that devil-may-care upward sweep, the sparse ornament to his upper lip invariably drooped downwards again before long.
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman