As a schoolboy, Petrushka had been ashamed to serve at the altar, had been offended at being addressed without ceremony, had not crossed himself on entering the room, and what was still more noteworthy, was fond of talking a great deal and with heat—and, in Father Fyodor’s opinion, much talking was unseemly in children and pernicious to them; moreover Petrushka had taken up a contemptuous and critical attitude to fishing, a pursuit to which both his Reverence and the deacon were greatly addicted.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[77] Nevertheless, [Pg 40] faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Mary’s is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother’s, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Heracles brought the matter before a court, and called Phyleus as a witness to the justice of his claim, whereupon Augeas, without waiting for the delivery of the verdict, angrily banished Heracles and his son from his dominions.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

On the other hand, when the "glass" rises, we know that colder air is coming, and as colder air comes from a dry quarter we anticipate fine weather.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Its objective reality, therefore ( i.e. that an object in conformity with it is possible), cannot be comprehended and dogmatically established as such a principle; and we do not know whether it is merely a sophistical and objectively empty concept ( conceptus ratiocinans ), or a rational concept, establishing a cognition and confirmed by Reason ( conceptus ratiocinatus ).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Other corporate applications of such services include internal organizational development and communications, and coordination of projects.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Demetrius, upon this defeat, retired into Cilicia; but the child Antiochus sent ambassadors and an epistle to Jonathan, and made him his friend and confederate, and confirmed to him the high priesthood, and yielded up to him the four prefectures which had been added to Judea.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The buglers clustered about him with bugles poised, and behind him a staff-officer in a pale blue jacket smoked a cigarette and chatted with a captain of hussars.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It might be their object to collect a crowd, and create a disturbance in the street, and, in the confusion thus caused, to obtain access to the house.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Then we'll come back and fly straight off east for a ways, and circle and come back.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

She understood the warning cry of "ishra ankra" for Page 219 a "crank," and could give the pencil taps telegraphing from counter to counter that a notorious "pill" or an "I'll-come-back-again" was bearing down on the department.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Select the tender bamboo sprouts in a can, and cut them into small pieces of the shape desired.
— from Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes by Janet McKenzie Hill

This near-coming fate, that he believed inevitable, put away completely all claims of that world that lay behind him—shut out everything but their own individuality.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It was intimated that the paper was a public one, fit to be laid by the Emperor, before the electors; but that the King had also caused a confidential one to be prepared, in which his motives and private griefs were indicated to Maximilian.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

how A little how Horses Cattle Swine Clothing Bedding 2 pastry boards Cooking utensils A cickell A cheese press A churn It was this same Lion Gardiner who, after the Pequot War, bought from the Indians the island [Pg 23] Monchonock, embracing thirty-five acres of hill and dale.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore

In those days Marcellus and I used to find our very highest delight in getting off on Thursdays, and going over to Dave Bushnell’s slaughter-house, to witness with stony hearts, and from as close a coign of vantage as might be, the slaying of some score of barnyard animals—the very thought of which now revolts our grown-up minds.
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

As Perseus grew older he became his mother’s protector and champion and could never do enough for her.
— from Herakles, the Hero of Thebes, and Other Heroes of the Myth Adapted from the Second Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt

Prior to and when the war of the rebellion broke out the writer of this article was a citizen of Izard county, Arkansas; the few loyal people that lived in North Arkansas, had a hope that war would be averted and when Ft. Sumter was fired upon they realized the awful condition and consequences of war at their very doors; those who favored a dissolution of the states had given notice in no uncertain way.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

They being gone, I to dinner with Balty and his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford to see us, and after dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer, and she and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest," and between two acts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to repeat to me the words of the Echo, while I writ them down, having tried in the play to have wrote them; but, when I had done it, having done it without looking upon my paper, I find I could not read the blacklead.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668 by Samuel Pepys