Oaths, as from soldiers to their general, had been taken by them: these they broke.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The causes are assigned out of Hippocrates, Cleopatra, Moschion, and those old Gynaeciorum Scriptores , of this feral malady, in more ancient maids, widows, and barren women, ob septum transversum violatum , saith Mercatus, by reason of the midriff or Diaphragma , heart and brain offended with those vicious vapours which come from menstruous blood, inflammationem arteriae circa dorsum , Rodericus adds, an inflammation of the back, which with the rest is offended by [2651] that fuliginous exhalation of corrupt seed, troubling the brain, heart and mind; the brain, I say, not in essence, but by consent, Universa enim hujus affectus causa ab utero pendet, et a sanguinis menstrui malitia , for in a word, the whole malady proceeds from that inflammation, putridity, black smoky vapours, &c., from thence comes care, sorrow, and anxiety, obfuscation of spirits, agony, desperation, and the like, which are intended or remitted; si amatorius accesserit ardor , or any other violent object or perturbation of mind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So Joshua removed his camp to the mountainous country, and placed the tabernacle in the city of Shiloh, for that seemed a fit place for it, because of the beauty of its situation, until such thee as their affairs would permit them to build a temple; and from thence he went to Shechem, together with all the people, and raised an altar where Moses had beforehand directed; then did he divide the army, and placed one half of them on Mount Gerizzim, and the other half on Mount Ebal, on which mountain the altar was; he also placed there the tribe of Levi, and the priests.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I wished, on the contrary, that these books of mine, and the prefatory sketch which they contained, might make it clear that the resources they started with justified their original idea, and sufficiently explained their final success in grasping universal empire and dominion.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

he said kindly, as he stretched out his slippered feet to the blaze, and took down his pipe from the mantel-piece.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Later the teeth become loose and may fall out, and the alveolar process undergoes necrosis.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The greatest interest, however, is with regard to the paper found in the bottle, which was to-day produced at the inquest; and a more strange narrative than the two between them unfold it has not been my lot to come across.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

And when the seventh came to the bottom of the glass, the ring rolled against his mouth.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Even as there may be, with respect to the body, a disease, a sickness, and a defect, so it is with the mind.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

At length he thought that the best mode of silencing them was by writing a reply to the arguments which they brought against our belief and in favour of their own.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

All the time the bonefish was pulling doggedly.
— from Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey

That there is likely to be wrong on both sides, where anger, or coldness, or contempt comes between those who acknowledge the Lord of love and peace as their Master, Mr Maxwell well knew, but in thinking of the trouble between these two men, neither the sympathy nor the blame was equally awarded.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

The walls of the veins which transport the blood are so thin that air, under the atmospheric pressure,—this pressure which I have told you all about,—passes through them and into the blood.
— from In Search of a Son by William Shepard Walsh

It is the property of truth to be fearless, and to prove victorious over every adversary.
— from A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

At first he took refuge from the sermon in his New Testament; but when, for the third time, the beautiful hand of the ministerial spouse appeared between him and the book, and gently withdrew it, he saw that his reading was an offence in her eyes, and contented himself thereafter with thinking: listening to the absolutely unintelligible he found impossible.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

Strong raised his foot and tapped the butt of his rod.
— from Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods by Irving Bacheller

No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse; Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give Thee o’er to harshness; her eyes are fierce, but thine Do comfort, and not burn: ’Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt Against my coming in: thou better know’st The offices of nature, bond of childhood, Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude; Thy half o’ the kingdom thou hast not forgot, Wherein I thee endow’d. Regan.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

And we onlookers, too, would join the moving throng that bend the knees at the altar of beauty and truth.
— from Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco by Juliet Helena Lumbard James