Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Are we morally bound to accept Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, as mere fabulous beings, because their biographers relate the incredible story of their being suckled by a wolf?
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

This year a report first originated regarding a revolt of the Prænestines; and the people of Tusculum, Gabii and Lavici, into whose territories the incursions had been made, accusing them of the fact, the senate returned so placid an answer, that it became evident that less credit was given to the charges, because they wished them not to be true.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Do they think we are communing with a reserve force of rascals at the bottom?
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Louisa had relinquished the hand: had thought that her sister’s was a better and brighter face than hers had ever been: had seen in it, not without a rising feeling of resentment, even in that place and at that time, something of the gentleness of the other face in the room; the sweet face with the trusting eyes, made paler than watching and sympathy made it, by the rich dark hair.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Songs, we know, were chanted at religious festivals of Rome from an early period, indeed from so early a period that some of the sacred verses were popularly ascribed to Numa, and were utterly unintelligible in the age of Augustus.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Upon other occasions, the order has been reversed; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in order to make room for a plantation of poppies, when the chief foresaw that extraordinary profit was likely to be made by opium.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The prefix bo- carries the meaning of tabooed, or ritual; the root ra’i suggests similarity with the above quoted magical word rayra’i , which is obviously merely a reduplicated form of ra’i .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In these circumstances it was pure zeal that sustained Mrs. Ellison in the flattering constancy with which she babbled on to Mr. Arbuton and refrained from openly resenting Kitty's contumacy.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

A red fire of resentment smouldered in the old woman's eyes, but Scott paid no attention to it.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

For, though Greek was widely understood, the commerce and the intellectual predominance of the Greeks, and the conquests of Alexander having caused it to be spoken nearly all over the Roman Empire, Syriac and Latin Versions were also required for ordinary reading, probably even in the very age of the Apostles.
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

They are about five feet in height, slightly arched, the sides and roof, formed of rugged rocks, dripping with moisture, as if sweating beneath the great weight above.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

So assiduously had he and his Christian converts worked, that it was almost ready for our reception.
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

Fabii (fā´bi-ī), an ancient and renowned family of Rome, who, having undertaken the duty of defending Roman territory against the incursions of the Veientines, established themselves at a post on the River Cremera.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

“But he is indifferent as regards forms of religion.
— from Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg

Most signal was the lustre of the funeral in a conspicuous procession of images; when at it appeared in a pompous train, Aeneas, father of the Julian race; all the kings of Alba, and Romulus founder of Rome; next the Sabine nobility, Attus Clausus, and his descendants of the Claudian family.
— from The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus

I was well pleased with the venture, and resolved for obvious reasons to go with them on the steamer.
— from The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell