To their names may be added, Erastus, chamberlain of Corinth; Aristarchus, the Macedonian; and Trophimus, an Ephesian, converted by St. Paul, and fellow-labourer with him; Joseph, commonly called Barsabas; and Ananias, bishop of Damascus; each of the seventy.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

If we used a box of dominoes extending to 9—9, there would be forty different ways.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The gunstocker’s name, Gûlsădi′hĭ or Gûltsădi′hĭ, and that of the original owner of the gun, Gûñskăli′skĭ, are both of doubtful etymology.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

, 43 It is in the case of friendships, however, that men's conceptions of duty are most confused; for it is a breach of duty either to fail to do for a friend what one rightly can do, or to do for him what is not right.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not," he would sometimes add in a burst of deportment, "even allow my simple requirements to be considered if they should at any time interfere with your own, my Caroline.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But though Wagner with Mathilde Wesendonck in his arms was Tristan in the arms of Isolde, he did not find a melody instead of a kiss on his lips; he did not find a progression of harmonies melting through the contours of a warm beauty with a blur of desperate ecstasies, semitones of desire, he found only the anxious happiness of any other lover.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

“Your mother was a devil, a deceitful devil—and you too are a devil,” he would shriek in a final outburst, pick up a bit of dry earth or a handful of mud (there was plenty of mud around the house), and fling it into her hair.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He was introduced by a brother of Dr. Edwards, a [Pg 343] man given to the peculiarly gloomy kind of debauch of which Stendhal gives such an exaggerated picture in his account of England.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The cathedral stands, as in all Spanish-American cities, upon the main plaza, and is quite large and imposing as to its exterior; but the interior is bare, damp, and cold, and barren of decoration, except a few tawdry wax or wooden images of the saints.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

Forsake , like abandon , may be used either in the favorable or unfavorable sense; desert is always unfavorable, [2] involving a breach of duty, except when used of mere localities; as, "the Deserted Village."
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

I don't expect you to square it with a bunch of double English violets, but it can be squared, and it MUST be, if only for the sake of Hammon's women folks.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

I was attended by one dozen English, which nearly completes my half-hundred this season.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

Bottle after bottle of different extracts were passed under nasal review; each, one might think, the triumph of the alchemy of flowers, and of each a specimen was laid aside for me in a slender vial, dexterously capped with vellum, and tied with a silken thread by the adroit Abyssinian.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

No one so clever as she in concealing a basket of delicious eatables, no one knew better what school-girls liked.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

Mutual gravity was sufficient to hold them together, and each wayleal spread himself upon the air, as upon a bed of down, enjoying luxurious repose.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

It is partly on the site of a British or Danish encampment, in a good state of preservation.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 128, April 10, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various