While, therefore, at one point the sea is advancing landward, and requiring great effort to prevent the undermining and washing away of the dikes, it is shoaling at another by its own deposits, and exposing, at low water, a gradually widening belt of sands and ooze.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

Sometimes it was a collection of Empire embroidered costumes that were hung out on the line; faded fleur-de-lis, sprigs of dainty lilies and roses, gold-embossed Empire coats, strewn thick with seed-pearls on satins softened by time into melting shades.
— from In and out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

Then a wave passed over the ranks of the sacred troop; innumerable small hands waved the olive-branches and the red crosses above their heads, acclaiming Savonarola, who was entering, and a chorus of silver voices intoned a psalm in his honour:— ' Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis Israel.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

The vapor or gas produced can be used for heating, lighting and running gas engines.
— from Mechanical Devices in the Home by Edith Allen

During the blessing the “Nunc dimittis” is chanted, 353 with the antiphon “Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuae Israel,” the ceremony being thus brought into connection with the “light to lighten the Gentiles” hymned by Symeon.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

S. atra occurs from about 3,000 feet or somewhat less, and reaches great elevations in the Eastern Alps, but I do not know if the two forms ever occur in the same localities.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

Lumen ad revelationem gentium: et gloriam plebis tuæ Israël ; this must have been the text which inspired him.
— from The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith