He believed this all the more, and with trepidation, because of the divine gloom and silence wherein dwelt the unseen Paraclete, Whose symbols were a dove and a mighty wind, to sin against Whom was a sin beyond forgiveness, the eternal mysterious secret Being to Whom, as God, the priests offered up mass once a year, robed in the scarlet of the tongues of fire.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Scipio ; Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (234-183), the son of Publius, i , 121 ; grandfather of the Gracchi, ii , 80 ; defeated Hannibal at Zama (202) and closed the war; never idle in his zeal for Rome, iii , 1-4 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The double track turned sharp off and took the direction of King's Pyland.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then Báli's soul with rage was fired, Queen Tára and the dames retired; And slowly, with a laugh of pride, The king of Vánars thus replied: “Me, fiend, thou deemest drunk with wine: Unless thy fear the fight decline, Come, meet me in the fray, and test The spirit of my valiant breast.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

To this Don Quixote replied, "His Majesty has acted like a prudent warrior in providing for the safety of his realms in time, so that the enemy may not find him unprepared; but if my advice were taken I would recommend him to adopt a measure which at present, no doubt, his Majesty is very far from thinking of."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Illuminate a girl's mind, form her character, give her, in short, a good education in the true sense of the word—remarking sooner or later her own superiority over other women, she becomes a pedant, that is to say, the most unpleasant and the most degraded creature that there is in the world.
— from On Love by Stendhal

1. About this time it was that Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus, came to Caesar, and became, in a surprising manner, the occasion of Antipater's further advancement; for whereas he ought to have lamented that his father appeared to have been poisoned on account of his quarrels with Pompey, and to have complained of Scipio's barbarity towards his brother, and not to mix any invidious passion when he was suing for mercy; besides those things, he came before Caesar, and accused Hyrcanus and Antipater, how they had driven him and his brethren entirely out of their native country, and had acted in a great many instances unjustly and extravagantly with relation to their nation; and that as to the assistance they had sent him into Egypt, it was not done out of good-will to him, but out of the fear they were in from former quarrels, and in order to gain pardon for their friendship to [his enemy] Pompey.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Just my head remained and two sticks of arms pressing on to the table.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

This may have twenty or more keys, any one of which can lock it; but the same one must be used to un lock it, as the key automatically sets the mechanism in favour of itself.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

"Guess we'll try south, just the same," said Terry, to George, as they struck off.
— from The Pike's Peak Rush; Or, Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

" Just then the Black Prince shied as we rode across the shadow of a gigantic oak-tree, and we were so close together that our horses' heads nearly touched.
— from False Evidence by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

With the stabilization of the Roumanian front, the division took a position near the junction of the Rimnicu in front of Namoloasa (southeast of Focsani).
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

At length he seemed to awaken to the sense of what he heard, and trembled from head to foot with an exceeding horror; but he uttered no word of reproach: and after a pause, he suddenly drew the sacrificial poniard from his girdle, and would have plunged it into his own bosom, if Faizi had not arrested his arm, and without difficulty snatched the weapon from his shaking and powerless grasp.
— from Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3) With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

It has sleeves extending to the feet, with apertures for the arms just above the elbow, and may be distinguished by the shape of the sleeves, which hang down square, and are cut out at the bottom like the section of a horseshoe.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Excavations in the area of the south hemicycle as early as 1889 had turned up fragments of drapery in Carrara marble, and bits of inscriptions which, in combination with literary evidence, gave to the great Italian epigraphist Attilio Degrassi the clue to the subjects of the statues.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

And some of them write, that the power or office is immediately from Christ, and that the pope, ordainers, and electors do but design the person that shall receive it (because else they know not what to say of the election and consecration of the pope himself, who hath no superior).
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Commodore Nelson here lost his arm, which happily did not deprive his Country of the services of one of its most valuable subjects.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major

The size of Mr. Hicks' fist, however, made the suggestion impractical.
— from The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

Cross the Athapuscow Lake—Description of it and its productions, as far as could be discovered in Winter, when the snow was on the ground—Fish found in the lake—Description of the buffalo; of the moose or elk, and the method of dressing their skins—Find a woman alone that had not seen a human face for more than seven months—Her account how she came to be in that situation; and her curious method of procuring a livelihood—Many of my Indians wrestled for her—Arrive at the Great Athapuscow River—Walk along the side of the River for several days, and then strike off to the Eastward—Difficulty in getting through the woods in many places—Meet with some strange Northern Indians on their return from the Fort—Meet more strangers, whom my companions plundered, and from whom they took one of their young women—Curious manner of life which those strangers lead, and the reason they gave for roving so far from their usual residence—Leave the fine level country of the Athapuscows, and arrive at the Stony Hills of the
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne