Excerpts from the Book 'Ben Hur A Tale Of The Christ':

... of the gods, where Theus, whom my countrymen believe supreme, has his abode Olympus is its name. Thither I betook myself. I found a cave in a hill ...
... and thick black hair attesting the blood of Israel. Sometimes, from under the wimples, the mothers look up, and in the vernacular modestly bespeak ...
... the walls, unbroken by a window, were frescoed in panels of saffron yellow a divan occupied the centre of the apartment, covered with cushions ...
... by what seemed the fronts of two-story houses of which the lower floor was divided into lewens, while the upper was terraced and defended by strong balustrading. ...
... so unusual. Nazareth, it must be remembered, was not only aside from any great highway, but within the sway of Judas of Gamala wherefore it should ...
... no reward for thee in the latter. Thou art not a Roman. Go!??˛ A short while after Ben-Hur was upon his bench again. A man???s task is always light if ...
... move the world more readily than the world could move him??? a man to be twice twelve times tortured into the shapeless cripple he was, without a groan, ...
... he had run upon in the road going to the temples. The man arose, and came to him. ??°I give you peace again,??˛ he said, pleasantly. ??°Thank you,??˛ ...
... like not such a friend as this put him away.?????˛ ??°It would be but shrewd judgment,??˛ Malluch replied, smiling. ??°Ilderim is not a lover of Rome ...
... a moment!??˛ said Ben-Hur. ??°Let me say further. From the masters in Rome I learned many lessons, little thinking they would serve me in a time like ...
... By the covenant! it is not to the faithless a man should go to find a faith to keep??? and I will not. But, hark! singing??? and the voice a woman???s??? ...
... gifts of the generous Arrius now comes this greater fortune, and the mind which achieved it. Is there not a purpose of God in it all? Counsel me, O Simonides! ...
... the beginning and end of the race-course. Behind the pedestal, leaving a passage-way and space for an altar, commences a wall ten or twelve feet in breadth ...
... will decide the matter. To offend the East would be a bad beginning with the Parthians to offend Sheik Ilderim would be to antagonize the ...
... looking with the inspiration of a terrible dread, lo! the young girl???s eyebrows were white as snow. Oh, the anguish of that assurance! The mother ...
... in every encounter. He was at the same time fighting-man and leader. The club he wielded was of goodly length and weighty, so he had need to strike ...
... such play Antony was weaned from his glory yet she who wrought his ruin was really not half so beautiful as this her countrywoman. And so to them the ...
... to Tirzah ??°but he had his power from God.??˛ Then addressing Amrah, she asked, ??°How does my son know this man so possessed???˛ ??°He was ...
... he knew but that there were any bold enough to attempt to take it at that time, he could not believe. It seemed too securely intrenched in a great fame ...
... this should be, and why it should go on. It is the will of the Nazarene??? it is God???s will. Let us do as the Egyptian here??? let us hold our peace ...