If the present sanity of the applicant is merely a lucid interval, which physicians know to be sometimes vouched to lunatics, with the absolute certainty, or at best, the strong probability, of an eventual return to a state of mental derangement, he is not, of course, qualified for initiation.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

It was a relief to Joseph's heart when the friendly signboard came in view, and, stopping his horse immediately beneath it, he proceeded to fulfil an intention made a long time before.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The independent standard of Aversa afforded shelter and encouragement to the outlaws of the province, to every fugitive who had escaped from the injustice or justice of his superiors; and these foreign associates were quickly assimilated in manners and language to the Gallic colony.
— 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

The custom of drinking coffee having become general in the capital, as well as in Marseilles and Lyons, the example was followed in all the provinces.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He was an ignorant man, and liked to pass for a scholar; he sacrificed to Bacchus and Comus, and would fain be thought sober; he was lustful, bad-tempered, envious, and miserly, but yet would be considered a virtuous man.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He replied, “Our Lord saith, Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; if therefore, Augustine is meek and lowly of heart, it is to be believed that he bears the yoke of Christ himself, and offers it to you to bear.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Operation for tying the brachial artery at its middle and lower thirds.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Has anybody ever noticed that all interesting men are lacking in heaven? ...
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly diminished or disappear.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Down deep enough to be out of reach of Jack Frost I make a nice little bedroom with a bed of grass and leaves, and I make another little room for a storeroom in which to keep my supply of seeds and nuts.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Or, it may be thus expressed: The true content of education is (1), philosophy or the knowledge of man as to his motives and hidden springs of action indicated in history and literature, and (2) science, the knowledge of nature, and its manifestations and laws.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

Who are the readers, what do they say, what printers' errors have remained uncorrected, these and the like worries run their course as infantile maladies and leave one leisure in later life to attend to one's literary work in a healthier frame of mind.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

His place in weighing the anchor, in setting the sails, in coming to anchor, in making a landing at a wharf, and in tacking, were written upon the card.
— from All Taut; or, Rigging the boat by Oliver Optic

And Susa, the Impetuous, answered, “I wail because I am in misery and love not this place, but [91] would depart to my mother who rules the Nether Distant Land, who is called the Queen of Yomi, the World of the Dead.”
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

(Again I must ask leave to report a great deal of foolishness.)
— from The inner house by Walter Besant

It meant equal terror for Mexico, and it meant a long and costly military campaign before the runaways were again under control.
— from The Story of Geronimo by Jim Kjelgaard