" So Bathsheba worshipped him, and wished him a long life; and the king sent for Zadok the high priest, and Benaiah the captain of the guards; and when they were come, he ordered them to take with them Nathan the prophet, and all the armed men about the palace, and to set his son Solomon upon the king's mule, and to carry him out of the city to the fountain called Gihon, and to anoint him there with the holy oil, and to make him king.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

A fool of thirty says to himself, as he looks at some little girls of twelve at the country house of one of his friends:
— from On Love by Stendhal

Meanwhile, the first coffee house in London had been opened by Pasqua Rosée in 1652; and, as the remainder of the story of coffee's rise and fall in England centers around the coffee houses of old London, we shall reserve it for a separate chapter.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Moreover, he was not able to find any lasting friendship among the Arabians; for their king, Malichus, sent to him immediately, and commanded him to return back out of his country, and used the name of the Parthians as a pretense for so doing, as though these had denounced to him by their ambassadors to cast Herod out of Arabia; while in reality they had a mind to keep back what they owed to Antipater, and not be obliged to make requitals to his sons for the free gifts the father had made them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Be on thy guard against the Gryphons, sharp-fanged hounds of Jove that never bark, and against the cavalry host of one-eyed Arimaspians, dwelling on the gold-gushing fount, the stream of Pluto.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Now indeed even the first{TR adds "tabernacle"} covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. 009:002
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews by Anonymous

When money is not used in the adjustment of balances at the clearing house, one of the most common methods of settlement is by manager's check on debtor banks in favor of creditor banks.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

But one would not really need much of an appetite to be tempted by the luncheon set forth at the Castle Hotel, one of the cleanest, brightest and best-ordered of the many inns at which we stopped in our wanderings.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

Anyhow, to convert her out of sin, as they’d call it, and put her over into the company of the saints wouldn’t be no bad deal, by their kind o’ thinkin’.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

‘Tom always said, gentlemen, that that waiting-maid was the artfullest minx he had ever seen; and he left it in writing in this country when he went to colonize abroad, that he was certain in his own mind she and the Salamander had blown up the philosopher’s stone on purpose, and to cut him out of his property.
— from The Lamplighter by Charles Dickens

Jenny bustled off—leaving the knife-basket on the floor, and the cloth half opened on the table.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Vol. I. by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

Duroc rushed to her aid, and, raising her in his arms, was about to carry her out of the room; but the emperor himself rolled an easy-chair toward her, and assisted Duroc in placing her on it.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The remaining difficulty was obviated by abandoning the circular horizontal outline of true fan-tracery, and adopting a polygonal form instead.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

He desired, also, to compliment his opponent on the spirit in which he had conducted his part of the battle, and for the straight fight which had been the consequence.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

He had nothing to say to Britton, and Gray he had never been able to catch hold of, or he would have made an attempt to possess himself of the papers addressed to him, which he thought more than probably contained ample information.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer