When Moses distinguished the tabernacle into three parts, 15 and allowed two of them to the priests, as a place accessible and common, he denoted the land and the sea, these being of general access to all; but he set apart the third division for God, because heaven is inaccessible to men.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Therefore he resolved he would study the laws; but seeing that there were but three scald- and one bald-pated legist in that place, he departed from thence, and in his way made the bridge of Guard and the amphitheatre of Nimes in less than three hours, which, nevertheless, seems to be a more divine than human work.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Tortured with such anxious thoughts, and brooding over them in secret, 128 a certain indication of some malignant intention, he judged it most prudent for the present to suspend his rancor, tilt the first burst of glory and the affections of the army should remit: for Agricola still possessed the command in Britain.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Lysander, it seems, on one occasion said to a Megarian, who was speaking somewhat boldly on behalf of Greece among the allies, "Your words require a state to back 196 them": 475 similarly every man's freedom of speech requires character behind it, and especially true is this in regard to those who censure and correct others.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The young moon recurved, and shining low in the west, was like a slender shaving thrown up from a bar of gold, and the Arabian Sea, smooth and cool to the eye like a sheet of ice, extended its perfect level to the perfect circle of a dark horizon.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Bits of glass arranged to amuse children led to the discovery of the kaleidoscope.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A lofty house I have, and wealth untold, In silver ingots, and in bars of gold: All these, and sums besides, which see no day, The ransom of this one poor life shall pay.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The boy, still on all fours, watched him closely, and the Burman, his eye attracted by a bright tin kettle hanging among the other goods dependent from the ceiling, stood looking at it, and as he looked the boy dodged out with a rush, overturning a bale of goods, and tearing at the door like a mad dog, disappeared into the street.
— from The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie

Instead, idleness became the badge of gentility, and trade a slur upon a man's reputation.
— from Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

He was flushed and perspiring and rumpled and well-nigh breathless; his coat was wrinkled, his tie awry, his collar wilted, and bits of grass and twigs and a leaf or so clung to his dusty clothes.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

But if we find that they are full of truth, they become our guides and teachers, and their authority is more and more confirmed; that they are good and true guides, is evidenced by their being able to guide us.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Vâsudeva is used both of God as the absolute and also as the first emanation (Vyûha).
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

And, as long as these subordinate works are not carried out, I do not see any use in destroying your beautiful rock, merely to bring another gun to bear, or give accommodation to another company.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

“They are the banners of Germany, and they are black, red, and golden yellow.
— from Glimpses of Nature, and Objects of Interest Described, During a Visit to the Isle of Wight Designed to Assist and Encourage Young Persons in Forming Habits of Observation by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

Absolutely , an immense disadvantage,—a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.
— from Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

It lyeth toward the West, and there the Bishopricks of Guaxacan and Tlarcali are separated.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Thereupon the concourse of the angels bowed low in adoration to God, the Peerless, the Incomparable; while Satan waxed proud, refusing to submit to His Remembrance; hence he is identified in the Book of God as the arrogant one and the accursed.
— from Selections From the Writings of the Báb by `Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab