Except the Word of God beareth witness in this matter, other testimony is of no value.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Vault of solid rock —The sky vault which is constantly rising and falling at the horizon and crushes those who try to go beyond occurs in the mythologies of the Iroquois of New York, the Omaha and the Sioux of the plains, the Tillamook of Oregon, and other widely separated tribes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Except the Word of God telleth thee in this matter, other testimony is of no value.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Many of the Indians of North America, says the Prince of Wied, say that they have an animal in their bodies.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In truth no Person can satisfactorily or sufficiently express the Fertility, Temperateness of the Climate, or the Multitude of the Inhabitants of Nicaraqua , which was almost infinite and admirable; for this Region contain'd some Cities that were Four Miles long; and the abundance of Fruits of the Earth (which was the cause of such a Concourse of People) was highly commendable.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Does it mean that you love me, or that I ought not to touch upon this question generally speaking?”
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

But the greatest mineral wealth of Algeria is in its iron mines, which abound all along the coast, and so near to it that the matter of transportation is of no great consequence.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

It is so impossible to describe manner , which gives so much of the impression of novelty.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

Perhaps it was melinite that he employed for the massacre of the innocents of New Guinea, not dynamite.”
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

I cannot make Lady Mabel my wife;—though, for the matter of that, I ought not to presume that she would take me if I wished it.
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

He understood how doggedly Malone must have labored to acquire mastery over the instruments of navigation.
— from The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling

Many of the Indians of North America, and almost of the present day, are fond of the flesh of the dog.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

Springs we saw none, with the exception of the old ruined one of the Moravian Brethren near the village of Malacca on the island of Nangkauri.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

If they are praiseworthy, the Memory of them is of no use but to act suitably to them.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

This is especially the case with female writers, from some of whose pens the finely pointed moral or touching incident of narrative comes forth with varied beauty, but almost equal claims to attention.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850 by Various