They will think we are trying to leave England and will search for us at the ports; meanwhile we shall reach London with the king.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

[184] “Oh, yes,” he corrected himself, “he did say that the light about the place was made by neon tubes set in the walls and that the light entered the room through a million pin-pricks in the canvas covering of the walls; also that this light came in slowly because it was filtered through bulbs very like radio tubes.”
— from Whispers at Dawn; Or, The Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

In 1834 there were, according to the lowest estimates, from fifteen to twenty thousand Indians in the missions.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

The young broker straightened up and saw that his friend was removing the cover from a crystal bowl that was attached to the lower end of the copper tube that pointed to the heavens at the same ascension and declination as the telescope.
— from Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various

They were always together; they loved each other, and could not bear to be apart.
— from Plain Words for Christ, Being a Series of Readings for Working Men by Reginald G. Dutton

Your Florentine aristocrat makes a brave show to the world and to the little English cliques around him.
— from Behind the Throne by William Le Queux

In order to make this evident we must observe that as the intellect naturally and of necessity adheres to the first principles, so the will adheres to the last end, as we have said already (A. 1).
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint