However some tradition they dispers'd Among the Heathen of thir purchase got, And Fabl'd how the Serpent, whom they calld 580 Ophion with Eurynome, the wide- Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driv'n And Ops, ere yet Dictaean Jove was born.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Ophion with Eurynome , the wide- Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule Of high Olympus , thence by Saturn driv’n And Ops , ere yet Dictaean Jove was born.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

However, some tradition they dispersed Among the Heathen, of their purchase got, And fabled how the Serpent, whom they called Ophion, with Eurynome, the wide— Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule Of high Olympus; thence by Saturn driven And Ops, ere yet Dictaean Jove was born.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

We circled for some time without doing much damage on either side; the long, straight, needle-like swords flashing in the sunlight, and ringing out upon the stillness as they crashed together with each effective parry.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal ease picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

" These expressions occur mainly in a book "De Docta Ignorantia," in which the Cardinal points out how many things which even educated people think they know are quite wrong.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

They who encourage evil propensities are 'nurses to the devil's brats.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

On the evening preceding the Sabbath, Mr. Roscoe mentioned the resolution he had formed, when his brother remarked, "I am not [385] surprised at your determination, because I know that it is a very general thing for those who embrace evangelical principles to prefer an evangelical ministry; but will not such a step grieve your old friend, the Rev. Mr. Cole."
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

The pioneers, as a body, were only a little different from those who were too affectionate or diffident to start, and among them were all sorts of people; but looking only to those who endured extraordinary privations, to those who developed an uncommon degree of strength, courage, and virtue, there have grown up the poetry and romance of the pioneers, and to none is this more evident than the pioneers themselves.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

[102] In his Memoranda there were equally enthusiastic praises of Curran.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore