And thus was I delivered from him by the virtue of Christ's Passion: for therewith is the Fiend overcome , as our Lord Jesus Christ said afore.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

[The Member for Arcis.] MARTHA was for a long time the faithful chambermaid of Josephine Claes; she died in old age between 1828 and 1830.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Yonder, on that balcony, at the corner of the Place, she had just caught sight of him, of her friend, her lord, Phoebus, the other apparition of her life!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine-tree—the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"We have been very happy, John Carter," she said, "and I thank whatever fate overtakes us that it permits us to die together.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For the purpose of deceiving the master, John continued some time in the place, and often came to visit him and Sæmund; till at last, one dark night, they betook themselves to flight.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

"You are not listening to a word I am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, "and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

There was only a rough bench in the cell; but a good conscience is a soft pillow, and therefore Jurgen could sleep well.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Note 14 ( return ) [ I have here inserted in brackets this high priest Azarias, though he be omitted in all Josephus's copies, out of the Jewish chronicle, Seder Olam, of how little authority soever I generally esteem such late Rabbinical historians, because we know from Josephus himself, that the number of the high priests belonging to this interval was eighteen, Antiq.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Why should it be, that, when a man comes into contact, into some kind of sympathy with Jesus Christ, some living union with him, everything becomes new, and he by and by begins to feel with St. Paul: "To me to live is Christ" (Phil. 1:21)?
— from The Jesus of History by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

"You was talkin', when I just came in, a while ago, of a young woman in connection with Mr. James Conyers, sir," said the "Softy," turning to Matthew Harrison; "a black-eyed woman, you said; might she have been his wife?"
— from Aurora Floyd, Vol. 3 Fifth Edition by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Nothing that Jimmy could say had the least effect, and so at last he agreed to take her to Peter.
— from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

He is, indeed, so disposed to catch the foul infection that Iago cries: “Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

Ali’s camel was on a tangent to the flight of the ostrich, and Jack could see his companion’s intention was to head off the big bird and chase it toward him.
— from The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis by Gerald Breckenridge

VII Supposing that we have found Jesus Christ, supposing that we know Him so well and have come to love Him so much that our love for Him is become stronger than any other love, very much stronger than any other love, and still, in spite of hopes and endeavours, we know that we have not found the Godhead, we have not found Union with the First and Third Person of the Holy Trinity—the heavens have not, as it were, been opened to us to let our souls slip through to God.
— from The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley

He had scarcely spoken when John caught sight of another safari coming across a ridge in the distance.
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

Prof. Robertson Smith, The Old Testament in the Jewish Church , Second Edition. 1892.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar