I suppose the former expression to be a form of Regules , which is used in Polo's book for persons of a religious rule or order, whether Christian or Pagan.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

At present, if a foreigner, perhaps of no contemptible rank, is introduced to one of the proud and wealthy senators, he is welcomed indeed in the first audience, with such warm professions, and such kind inquiries, that he retires, enchanted with the affability of his illustrious friend, and full of regret that he had so long delayed his journey to Rome, the active seat of manners, as well as of empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[19] Stendhal came back from each of his many and frequent voyages, like the happy traveller in Joachim du Bellay's sonnet, plein d'usage et raison —knowing the ways of men and full of ripe wisdom.
— from On Love by Stendhal

And suddenly something flapped repeatedly across the vision, like the fluttering of a jewelled fan or the beating of a wing, and a face, or rather the upper part of a face with very large eyes, came as it were close to his own and as if on the other side of the crystal.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And when the Jews had suffered this loss, the Arabians raised their spirits after their defeat, and returning back again, slew those that were already put to flight; and indeed all sorts of slaughter were now frequent, and of those that escaped, a few only returned into the camp.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It was a large, well-proportioned room, which had been specially built by the last Lord Kelso for the use of the little grandson whom, for his strange likeness to his mother, and also for other reasons, he had always hated and desired to keep at a distance.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The fame of Julius the Second, Leo the Tenth, and Sixtus the Fifth, is accompanied by the superior merit of Bramante and Fontana, of Raphael and Michael Angelo; and the same munificence which had been displayed in palaces and temples was directed with equal zeal to revive and emulate the labors of antiquity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nazareth Avenue Church parted from its pastor with regret for the most part, although the regret was modified with a feeling of relief on the part of those who had refused to take the pledge.
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

It is imagined that this divinity obtained his name from having once undertaken to furnish some fleet with men ; but from being a German God, and for other reasons, I confess that I have no great faith in this etymology. Æsymnus.
— from The Punster's Pocket-book or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank by C. M. (Charles Molloy) Westmacott

A flush of real anger came into her cheeks.
— from The Boys of the Wireless; Or, A Stirring Rescue from the Deep by Frank V. Webster

Everything throughout was on an unpretending scale, full of comfort, and without display, with a regularity and punctuality that gave a feeling of repose.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Our infantry formed line, supported on both flanks by horse artillery, whilst a fire was opened from our centre by such of our heavy guns as remained effective, aided by a flight of rockets.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

I need scarcely inform the reader that the names and localities are, for obvious reasons, fictitious, but I may be permitted to add that the incidents are substantially correct and authentic.
— from Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The imposition of Western government upon backward peoples approximates to the role of police; the struggles between the armed forces of rival Western Powers do not.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

rend=';' It was a’ for our rightfu’ King That we left fair Scotland’s strand: It was a’ for our rightfu’ King That we e’er saw Irish land.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

She was, from first to last, a figure of romance, irritating, aggressive, enchanting, baffling, always blinding, to all of us.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

When you went pinn'd up in the several rags You had raked and pick'd from dunghills, before day; Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes; A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloke, That scarce would cover your no buttocks— SUB.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson