I told him, “although it were the custom of our learned in Europe to steal inventions from each other, who had thereby at least this advantage, that it became a controversy which was the right owner; yet I would take such caution, that he should have the honour entire, without a rival.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The strength, affluence and terseness may easily be accounted for, because the style of a man is the man; but how are we to account for that rare polish in his style of writing, which, most critically examined, seems the result of careful early culture among the best classics of our language; it equals if it does not surpass the style of Hugh Miller, which was the wonder of the British literary public, until he unraveled the mystery in the most interesting of autobiographies.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Late in the afternoon there would lie to his right the Convent of Our Lady in Egypt.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

“ The Convent of Our Lady in Egypt.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

Above was Latin, to the effect that you were upon the lands of the Convent of Our Lady in Egypt.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

I told him, although it were the custom of our learned in Europe to steal inventions from each other,... yet I would take such caution that he should have the honor entire.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

[46] was soon at the boundary cross of Our Lady in Egypt, and then upon the waste and stony land that set toward the fief of Castel-Noir.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

[106] You will see, therefore, that the idea of a Creator, fashioning a type of animal organism, or making a commencement of organic life, is excluded by this great philosopher, although he does concur in the main in Darwin's general ex
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

He knew the neighbouring fiefs, the disputed ground, the Convent of Our Lady in Egypt.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

“While I mention these three distinguishing characteristics of the patriarch, I cannot help dwelling more particularly on the second, of which I am reminded by the contrast of our life in Egypt; and because our present situation, living in tents and caravans in the desert, has some analogy with his.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

The stuff was simple, far from costly, but the colour was [129] that blue, deep but not harsh, dark but silvery too, which had been worn by that form in the stone chair beneath the cedar tree, by the Convent of Our Lady in Egypt.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston