He received them also upon the same terms as they had enjoyed before, taking hostages; but he treated the ambassadors from Smyrna with special kindness, because they had been the most constant in their loyalty of all.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They call it glasing , and find it amongst the shallows and upon the very shore.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

There was once a man named Gûñskăli′skĭ, who had this medicine and used to hunt for Raven Mockers, and killed several.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus, &c."
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Gentlemen seem to mesmerise houses—cow them with an eye, and up they come, trembling.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I have been unhappy, and used to think one couldn’t be more unhappy, but the awful state of things I am going through now, I could never have conceived.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Your severer climates add to your needs; [1] for half the year your public squares are uninhabitable; the flatness of your languages unfits them for being heard in the open air; you sacrifice more for profit than for liberty, and fear slavery less than poverty.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It can act upon the individuals who approach it or whom it approaches.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Moreover, forceps of exactly similar [Pg 92] form were in use in every household as accessories of the lamp for raising and snuffing the wick, and artisans used them also for the finer manipulations of their crafts; so that by far the largest number of forceps of this type are not surgical instruments, but household implements.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

But her peculiar excellence lies in the felicity with which she chooses and unites together the most striking and powerful features.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

But these blind guides are unwilling to see this, namely, that faith must have something which it believes, that is, of which it takes hold, and upon which it stands and rests.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

The Jacobites did not fail to retort those arts upon the government which their adversaries had so successfully practised in the late reign.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Should it finally appear that the merits of the man, whose writings have so much contributed to enforce and foster the spirit of independence in the people of America, are unable to inspire them with a just beneficence, the world, it is to be feared, will give us as little credit for our policy as for gratitude in this particular.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

rnon, requested him to collect a debt for him in Pennsylvania, of about thirty-five pounds currency, and use the money as he pleased until he should call for it.
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer

They have an infinite capacity for what we call small talk and repartee; and, as they never aim for brilliancy and are quite natural and unaffected, their pretty ways have all the charm that an unconscious child’s have.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

The mystery of God's WILL is here more seen than in hanging the earth upon nothing, while he condemneth Christ, though righteous, and justifieth us, though sinners, while he maketh him to be sin for us, and us the righteousness of God in him (1 Peter 3:18; 2 Cor 5:20).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

We had all been to church as usual, this Sunday, and we were taking off our hats and things upstairs, after the second service.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

It is a very unreasonable, foolish, clumsy sort of religion, this theology in wooden shoes; it is half grotesque, half pathetic; the grandmothers pass it on to the grandchildren as they pass the bowl of potatoes round the stove in the long winter nights; it is as silly as possible, but it comforts them as they carry fagots over the frozen canals or wear their eyes blind over the squares of lace; and it has in it the supreme pathos of any perfect confidence, of any utterly childlike and undoubting trust.
— from Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes by Ouida

Yet princes in some respect indirectly, for help and aid, chiefly then when the prelates neglect to convocate councils, or are destitute of power for doing of the same, of duty may, and use to convocate them.”
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie