So by daylight the next morning he was marching through Ross-shire, and in the evening hit the Caledonian Canal, took the next steamer, and travelled as fast as boat and railway could carry him to the Rugby station.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Alive to every sound, in his anxious and expectant state, Newman hurried downstairs, and, uttering a cry of joyful surprise, dragged the welcome visitor into the passage and up the stairs, and said not a word until he had him safe in his own garret and the door was shut behind them, when he mixed a great mug-full of gin-and-water, and holding it to Smike’s mouth, as one might hold a bowl of medicine to the lips of a refractory child, commanded him to drain it to the last drop.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

All the necessary appurtenances such as awning, red carpet, coat hanging racks, ballroom chairs, as well as crockery, glass, napkins, waiters and food are supplied by hotels or caterers.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

He’s a regular curse, confound him! . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He felt that he was not even like the blind man, for he had neglected the Word of God in the Old Testament, and as for the New, he, living in a Roman Catholic country, had never heard of it.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Though I allow these to be clear truths, and such as, if rightly explained, a rational creature can hardly avoid giving his assent to, yet I think he is far from proving them innate impressions in foro interiori descriptae.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

When there grew up a need for "places of resort of a more elegant and refined character," chocolate houses came into vogue, and the Cocoa-Tree was the most famous of these.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I was as rejoiced as Robinson Crusoe could have been at finding such a treasure.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

See also Roman Catholic, &c. —— hierarchy, source of their power, 213 .
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Buddhism and Brahminism have more adherents than Mohammedanism, and Mohammedanism more than Christianity, and Roman Catholic Christianity has more than Protestantism, and Protestantism, when it is a life, is narrowed down to a very small body of believers.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Those who claimed to be men of refinement and religious convictions called him a cynic because he had emancipated himself from all social obligations; and an atheist, because he never appeared at church.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Nobody but a regular Chinese can help himself with these two little bits of wood, one of which is usually held stationary between the thumb and the ring finger, while the other is shifted about between the fore and middle fingers.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

I think nothing but a Russian carriage, driven by a Russian coachman could have got along.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

He was received with great distinction at court, and a royal carriage conveyed him to his lodgings.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

“I discovered a rather curious circumstance,” he said.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

An average rural community can hardly afford more than one pastor with such qualifications, and it is evident that he would need to give his whole time to one parish.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

A Roman Catholic chapel had recently been erected by the Elector Palatine in Lime Street.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe