The bones of King Edward "the Martyr," carefully removed hither for holy preservation, brought Shaston a renown which made it the resort of pilgrims from every part of Europe, and enabled it to maintain a reputation extending far beyond English shores.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Aristotle will admit none but animals into the domain of fabledom, and rigorously excludes from it both men and plants.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

That the true growth-characteristics of the democracy of the New World are henceforth to radiate in superior literary, artistic and religious expressions, far more than in its republican forms, universal suffrage, and frequent elections, (though these are unspeakably important.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

A trifling indisposition from which she then suffered provided a reasonable excuse for a delay, more or less prolonged, and this she generously placed at our disposal.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Besides the Court balls, public balls were given at the Town Hall and the Redoute, and in the former place there was a room for trente-et-quarante and roulette established, for the week of the festivities only, and by one of the great German companies from Ems or Aix-la-Chapelle.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, where the small-ness of the theatre did not yet afford room enough for action, and where the pain my fingers gave me, in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension which I could not be easy till I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

the Romans having the stream on their left, the Carthaginians on their right; and having ascertained on the second day, by means of scouts, that they were near each other, they both halted and remained encamped for that day: but on the next, both taking their cavalry, and Publius his sharp-shooters also, they hurried across the plain to reconnoitre each other’s forces.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The fewer rights they allow you, the more reason you will have later to throw off the yoke, and return evil for evil.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

On this Indian shore, professor, there are roads and railways, English, French, and Hindu villages.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Byron’s “Hours of Idleness” would never find a reader except from an intrepid and indefatigable curiosity.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The letter advocated also an extension of Native Reserves, and it was promptly followed (on February 28th) by a motion, brought forward by Mr. Byles, which declared that "in any settlement of South African affairs this House desires a recognition of Imperial responsibility for the protection of all races excluded from equal political rights, the safeguarding of all immigrants against servile conditions of labour, and the guarantee to the native populations of at least their existing status, with the unbroken possession of their liberties in Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and other tribal countries and reservations."
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

It stood apart from the rest, and was in all respects eligible for the purpose.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

It seemed to Cobb that he could advance nothing but what this man had a ready explanation for its action or cause.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

This is a rhetorical exaggeration from which the good dissent, at which the evil laugh.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

TOASTS A toast may be given either with or without sentiment attached, and in either case a response equally fitting; but in the former the subject is narrowed and defined by the nature of the sentiment.
— from Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger

Sometimes only a rag emerges from long mounds to indicate that some human being was there destroyed, for all these unburied dead end by entering the soil.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

He felt that he was advancing rapidly; every fresh pair of eyes which met his, and in which he saw no gleam of suspicion, gave him confidence.
— from The Second Dandy Chater by Tom Gallon

After that he studied architecture, with more distinction because he had a real enthusiasm for the work, especially the ecclesiastical branch.
— from The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller

To these might be added didactic and rhetorical exercises for improving the student in the practice of writing—not merely accurately, but elegantly and perspicuously.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Mrs. A.J.C., child, ~1~, 112 Gibson, ——, artist at Rome, escape from poisoning (1831), ~1~, 397 Gintl, J.W., and duplex telegraph, ~2~, 187 Gisborne, F.N., and telegraph, ~2~, 342 Glenelg, Lord, and War of 1812, ~1~, 90 Gleson, ——, oration at Charlestown (1805), ~1~, 7 Goddard, Elisha, return to America (1813), ~1~, 107 Gonon, ——, visual telegraph, ~2~, 53, 166 Goodhue, Jonathan, informal club, ~2~, 451 Goodrich, Mary, drawing, ~2~, 506 Goodrich, Nancy, marriage, ~1~, 112 Goodrich, W.H., American Asiatic Society, ~2~, 444 presented at French court, 448-450 Goodrich, Mrs. W.H. (Griswold), from M. (1862) on prospect of Northern success, ~2~, 419 at Paris (1866), 448 Gould, James, and M., ~1~, 238 Grant, Charles.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse