Being attached to Him, or rather let me say, re-attached,—for we had detached ourselves and lost hold of Him,—being, I say, re-attached to Him, [373] we tend towards Him by love, that we may rest in Him, and find our blessedness by attaining that end.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Whatever maiden grace The good old Summers, year by year, Made ripe in Sumner-chace: "Old Summers, when the monk was fat, And, issuing shorn and sleek, Would twist his girdle tight, and pat The girls upon the cheek.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The current of the Multnomah river is as gentle as that of the Columbia, glides smoothly with an even surface, and appears to possess sufficient debth for the largest ship.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Kind subjects of conversation had grown between us; he had inquired into my plans of life, and I had communicated them; the school project pleased him; he made me repeat it more than once, though he called it an Alnaschar dream.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The next layer of the pericarp is the mesocarp (Figs. 333, 334, 335), the cells of which are larger and more regular in outline than the epicarp.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

2 [B2] be very much reduced in weight.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They were gradually more and more extended, and were divided into many inferior chapters; till at last the doctrine of spirits, of which so little can be known, came to take up as much room in the system of philosophy as the doctrine of bodies, of which so much can be known.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Whatever makes religion its second object, makes it no object.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In Africa and other savage countries a third motive sometimes operates, namely the desire to consult the dead—as Odysseus, anxious about his return home, was constrained to do—or to use them against the living; for negro magicians are reputed even to murder remarkable individuals in order to possess themselves of their power and to be able to use them as familiar spirits.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

A general may retire in order to hasten to the defense of a point threatened by the enemy, either upon the flanks or upon the line of retreat.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

It was intended that the nuptials should be celebrated at Cashmere; where the young King, as soon as the cares of the empire would permit, was to meet, for the first time, his lovely bride, and, after a few months' repose in that enchanting valley, conduct her over the snowy hills into Bucharia.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

The street where she had lived was close at hand and habit was so strong that despite my reason I felt the tug of old instinct.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

Mr. Robinson is not only one of our best known American contemporary poets, but is a leader and recognized as such.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

He would turn around gospel standards like "My Jesus Is All the World to Me," recreating it as "I Got a Woman[.]"
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

The taciturnity of his mood redoubled in thickness.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

By afternoon they had cleared the forest region, and were now halted in a small grove of giraffe-acacia trees by a pan of water, about twelve miles distant from the mountain range in which Engelbrecht and his party had ensconced themselves.
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden