The little girl had learnt a hymn in which roses were spoken of, and then she thought of their own roses, and she sang the hymn to the little boy, and he sang too:— "Roses bloom and cease to be, But we shall the Christ-child see."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The expulsion of the daemons from the bodies of those unhappy persons whom they had been permitted to torment, was considered as a signal though ordinary triumph of religion, and is repeatedly alleged by the ancient apologists, as the most convincing evidence of the truth of Christianity.
— 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

This fellow had, when young, been engaged with him in a course of mutual and unnatural pollution, but, being at last quite tired of the occupation, ran away.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[“Now the old ploughman, shaking his head, sighs, and compares present times with past, often praises his parents’ happiness, and talks of the old race as full of piety.”—Lucretius, ii. 1165.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They offered their own religion and it was gladly received.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

From being the outward tokens of respect and sorrow for the dead, they became converted into signals of very slaughterous and killing designs upon the living.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This formidable chorus was recognized, "Aux armes, Citoyens; formez vos bataillons!" Lighted torches were coming, it was the "Marseillaise," that other torch of Revolution and of warfare which was blazing.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

To their right lay the harbor, taking on tints of rose and copper as it stretched out into the sunset.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Their faces relapsed into a natural expression as the horses, clearing the lodge-gates, got into a brisker trot on the open road; and squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house entrances, with pewter-pots flashing in the sunshine.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This was the one touch of rough, amid so much of dulcet that occurred: no evil, this touch, almost rather otherwise, except to poor Wackerbarth, whose fine House lay wrecked by it.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

Now, the Hypothetical Method suppresses the first of the three steps, the induction to ascertain the law; and contents itself with the other two operations, ratiocination and verification; the law which is reasoned from being assumed instead of proved.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Indeed, the actual progress of society in any period, is neither more nor less than the result of the conflict between the opposite tendencies, of retrogradation and advancement—a disposition to adhere to the old, which has been tried and approved, and a tendency toward the new, which, however promising and alluring, may yet disappoint and mislead.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

But the odious term of rebel, applied to some of the most loyal and honourable men in the province, because they could not give up their honest views on the state of the colony, gave rise to bitter and resentful feelings, which were ready, on all public occasions, to burst into a flame.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[pg 101] scenes of horror, such as the massacre at the Colline Gate, the memory of which perhaps survives in those lines of Lucretius in which the miseries of a savage life are contrasted with those of times of refinement:— At non multa virum sub signis milia ducta Una dies dabat exitio 148 .
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

‘I and the men who had guested me overnight,’ said Face-of-god, ‘and they slew the other three; or rather a woman of them slew the felons.’
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris

From within the temple enclosures, as from within the theatres and amphitheatres, the blue sky could be seen overhead, while the too fervid rays of a midsummer sun, or the storms of winter, could be warded off from those within by means of an awning thrown over the open roof, and stretched on cables.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

A dozen rifles spoke out, but he crashed away in the darkness, and one or two of the others ran also.
— from The Boy Scout Automobilists; Or, Jack Danby in the Woods by Robert Maitland