143 Oft when the task is nigh complete, These worst of fiends my toil defeat, Throw bits of bleeding flesh, and o'er The altar shed a stream of gore.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

So thought it not convenient to stay, but left him and walked home, and there weary went to supper, and then the barber came to me, and after he had done, to my office to set down my journall of this day, and so home and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As there were about sixty canoes making the proper uvalaku from Dobu, that is, not counting those from the Amphletts and Vakuta which joined on the way and appeared before Sinaketa, there were at the outside
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The sute therefore is not contrary to the will of the Soveraign; and consequently the Subject hath the Liberty to demand the hearing of his Cause; and sentence, according to that Law.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A recurrence to the principles there established will satisfy us, that there is no color to pretend that the State governments would, by the adoption of that plan, be divested of the privilege of paying their own debts in their own way, free from every constraint but that which flows from the obligations of good faith.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The weak wind shakes the bloom in showers, Snow from a cloudless sky; There is no change this happy day
— from Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang

The complaint brought against me is an infamous lie, and there is no circumstance that gives it even an air of probability.
— from The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

"In the reconstruction that is now coming there lies more than the reconstruction of States and the arrangement of the machinery of Government.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

Plainly this is not contrary to rationality and liberty but in accord with them; rationality starts the combat and liberty follows it up; liberty itself resides with rationality in the internal man and from that in the external.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

For, whether the pirates had carried away what they had done and buried it elsewhere, or whether the storm in blowing the sand had completely levelled off and hidden all sign of that tragedy where it was enacted, certain it is that it never came to sight again—at least so far as Tom Chist and the Reverend Hillary Jones ever knew.
— from Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle

I considered it, however, an indispensable duty to draw up a statement from such materials as memory could furnish, agreeably to the instructions received from the Navy Board; and in compliance, immediately on my return to London, I made a hasty sketch of my remarks in the form of a letter addressed to that Board; but as I have not since been favoured with any intimation of its ever having been received, I am compelled to think that it never came to hand.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

There is but one point of interest that is not common to them all, and that is the volcano of Mont Pelée on Martinique.
— from Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

If Mr. Jones does not make out a case for it, there is no case to make.
— from The Fiddlers; Drink in the Witness Box by Arthur Mee