Is the Priapus of the priests less obscene than the Priapus of the players?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Eighty or ninety feet above the present level of the Thames in the higher gravels are these relics found; and they are so abundant that the early inhabitants who used them must have been fairly numerous.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

In return for these cessions the emigrant Cherokee were to receive a tract within the present limits of the state of Arkansas, [ 103 ] bounded on the north and south by White river and Arkansas river, respectively, on the east by a line running between those streams approximately from the present Batesville to Lewisburg, and on the west by a line to be determined later.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Completely oblivious to the poor lures of the earth, he was fully awake at all times to the spiritual problems of seekers who approached for his bounty.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

However, this time, my tranquillity, or passiveness as philosophers say, proceeded from another source; it proceeded from a wish, like a submissive and devoted daughter” (a slight smile was observable on the purple lips of the young girl), “to practice obedience.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The impartial student of Sigmund Freud need not agree with all his conclusions, and indeed, like the present writer, may be unable to make sex so all-dominating a factor in the psychic life of the past and present as Freud deems it to be, to recognize the fact that he is the most original and creative mind in psychology of our generation.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The painter leapt over to the door, opened it very slightly - the girls' clasped hands could be seen stretching through the crack as if they wanted something - and said, "If you're not quiet I'll throw you all down the stairs. Sit down here on the steps and be quiet."
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

The pale light of the first rays of day gave to her clear eyes a strangely frightful expression.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In August of that year the army of North Carolina, 2,400 strong, under General Griffith Rutherford, crossed the Blue ridge at Swannanoa gap, and following the main trail almost along the present line of the railroad, struck the first Indian town, Stikâ′yĭ, or Stecoee, on the Tuckasegee, near the present Whittier.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

—In approaching this temple from the north, the first object is a magnificent propylon, or gateway, which is two hundred feet in length, and the top of it fifty-seven feet above the present level of the soil.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

This unexpected windfall perhaps explains why our readers who have become interested in the adventures of Dan and Billy can follow their history further in the next volume of this series, to be entitled, “The Speedwell Boys and Their Power Launch; Or, To the Rescue of the Castaways.”
— from The Speedwell Boys and Their Racing Auto; Or, A Run for the Golden Cup by Roy Rockwood

It is a vain witticism, a commonplace to say that without the pretended liberty of the will, all pains and rewards are useless.
— from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

His Majesty has played several times at Cannes and on the private links of the Grand Duke Michael, and his love of the game is notably shared by the Duke of Cornwall and York, the Duchess of Fife, and the Duke of Connaught.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes

In the pale light of the electric lamps he saw a scene so ghastly that his cast-iron nerve wellnigh broke down.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

These children's voices stretched to breaking, these clear sharp voices threw into the darkness of the chant some whiteness of the dawn, joining their pure, soft sounds to the resonant tones of the basses, piercing as with a jet of living silver the sombre cataract of the deeper singers; they sharpened the wailing, strengthened and embittered the burning salt of tears, but they insinuated also a sort of protecting caress, balsamic freshness, lustral help; they lighted in the darkness those brief gleams which tinkle in the Angelus at dawn of day; they called up, anticipating the prophecies of the text, the compassionate image of the Virgin, passing, in the pale light of their tones, into the darkness of that sequence.
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

But the Israelites under Moses were unable to live the perfect law of the gospel.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Perhaps they are after all in the portfolio lying on the floor there!”
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

'I won't go home till morning, till daylight does appear,'" bawled the tipsy man, and staggered on down the street, whereupon this landlord also disappeared in his cellar, after extinguishing the paper lantern over the doorway.
— from Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff