4. Now when Esau, one of the sons of Isaac, whom the father principally loved, was now come to the age of forty years, he married Adah, the daughter of Helon, and Aholibamah, the daughter of Esebeon; which Helon and Esebeon were great lords among the Canaanites: thereby taking upon himself the authority, and pretending to have dominion over his own marriages, without so much as asking the advice of his father; for had Isaac been the arbitrator, he had not given him leave to marry thus, for he was not pleased with contracting any alliance with the people of that country; but not caring to be uneasy to his son by commanding him to put away these wives, he resolved to be silent.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At these words Bulger broke out into a series of glad barks, and, raising upon his hind legs, licked the queen’s hand in token of his gratitude, while the fair princess looked a love at me that was too deep to put into words.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The nosering, the pliers, the bastinado, the hanging hook, the knout I’ll make you kiss while the flutes play like the Nubian slave of old.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

On the whole though favouring preferably light opera of the Don Giovanni description and Martha , a gem in its line, he had a penchant , though with only a surface knowledge, for the severe classical school such as Mendelssohn.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Consequently, everything which is or has been connected with him is, by contagion, in a religious state excluding all contact with things from profane life.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The universal tradition was that Adam was the first person liberated by Christ from hell; and this corresponded with an equally wide belief that all who were saved by the death of Christ and his descent into hell were at once raised into the moral condition of Adam and Eve before the Fall,—to eat the food and breathe the holy air of Paradise.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Related Words : Tierra fiscal , pública , lands , government lands ; pueblo , principal town of a colonia; egido , the land surrounding a pueblo in a colonia, to be used as the town grows ; título definitivo , deed giving the settler legal title to the land he occupies ; poblador , arrendador , ocupante , tenant .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I finished it about six o’clock one afternoon, and shrinking from giving it to Stenson to post, as it was the first private letter I had written since my arrival in London, I took it myself to the pillar-box.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

One is persuaded that his morality is official and impersonal—a system of life which it was his duty to support—and it is perhaps a half understanding of this that has made so many generations believe that he was the first poet laureate, the first salaried moralist among the poets.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Well, you're like to know, Gerty; it was you won three first prizes last half, wasn't it?
— from Princess Sarah, and Other Stories by John Strange Winter

In shady corners, deeper in the wood, the fragrant pyrola lifted its scape of clustering bells, like a lily of the valley wandered to the forest.
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke

What would be likely to happen when the Fosdick parents learned of the engagement of their only child to the assistant bookkeeper of the South Harniss lumber and hardware company was unpleasant to contemplate, so why contemplate it?
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

[Pg 186] It is difficult to see how the fallacy of this argument could have been detected by any one not familiar with the fundamental physiological law that the nature of a sensation is in no wise determined by the character of the agent producing it, but only by the character of the nerves acted upon; but, as already intimated, this law belongs to a later epoch than the one we are considering.
— from Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden

[Pg 201] like him direct her where to find proper lodgings; so he penciled on a card the address of an old lady, whose quiet house he thought would just suit her; and then he said, kissing Charley, "God bless you both," and drew his hand across his eyes.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

It was the first pleasant look that I had seen there this morning.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney