Citations:acts

English citations of acts

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Here also was more fully recorded the acts that he had done, and the names of many hundreds that he had taken into his service; and how he had placed them in such habitations that could neither by length of days, nor decays of nature, be dissolved.

  Then they read to him some of the worthy acts that some of his servants had done: as, how they had "subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens." [Heb 11:33,34]

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.

  First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathan's tail acts in a different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures.

  Out of this revelation, part by part, at last came out the four acts of the gladness, and the one long, and as yet uncatastrophied fifth act of the grief of his life's drama.