The reason of his keeping the cross east at the frontier of the country was, that he thought it would be a protection to all the land; but it proved the greatest misfortune to place this relic within the power of the heathens, as it afterwards turned out.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

If I may explain this further, when we relied on the print and audiovisual (film, television, radio, video, cassettes) media, we had to depend on the information or entertainment we wanted to receive being brought to us by agents (publishers, television and radio stations, cassette and video producers) who have to subsist in a commercial world or — as in the case of public service broadcasting — under severe budgetary restraints.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He hid himself behind the door of the bath, and peeped through a chink.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

bye of him, and so with Creed to St. James’s, and, missing Mr. Coventry, walked to the New Exchange, and there drank some whey, and so I by water home, and found my closett at my office made very clean and neat to my mind mightily, and home to dinner, and then to my office to brush my books, and put them and my papers in order again, and all the afternoon till late at night doing business there, and so home to supper, and then to work in my chamber, making matters of this day’s accounts clear in my books, they being a little extraordinary, and so being very late I put myself to bed, the rest being long ago gone. 25th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I’ll go back and pray that all this is wild talk,” said Sybil earnestly.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Moreover, he built a palace therein at the western ascent; it was within and beneath the walls of the citadel, but inclined to its north side.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Is it becoming a philosopher to alter his method of reasoning, and run from one principle to its contrary, according to the particular phaenomenon, which he would explain?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Even when Babylon passed under the power of Assyria, the monarchs of that country were expected to legalise their claim to the throne every year by coming to Babylon and performing the ancient ceremony at the New Year festival, and some of them found the obligation so burdensome that rather than discharge it they renounced the title of king altogether and contented themselves with the humbler one of Governor.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He afterwards applied himself with energy to the study of chemistry, and other subjects, with which it was thought expedient that he should be acquainted, previously to attending the medical lectures in the University of Edinburgh.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

The Sikh troops moved up by another pass to Ali-Musjid.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Nero had tried to obliterate on false charges the innocent Christians; he had swept away all the noblest of the aristocracy; he had banished or killed the philosophers; he now ventured to strike a blow at Pætus Thrasea and Barea Soranus, the two most honoured and virtuous of the Roman senators; and in doing so, as Tacitus says, to exterminate virtue itself.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

On the fifth day it was reported by a peasant that Ah Lum, after a continuous march northward, was now turning south before formidable Russian forces that were threatening to enclose him.
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

For a young woman to have this dream, she will be a party to a spicy rivalry, in which she will win.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

And your father has fled to Paris—it is a serious thing to be a party to a duel in Germany—a sure-enough duel!
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes they burned the body and put the ashes in an urn, which they placed under a cromlech, or cairn, or burial mound.
— from A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

Had we the autograph of Moses in the exact form in which he deposited it in the sanctuary (Deut. 31:26), this would be a perfect text; and so of any other book of the Old Testament.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Standing there in the hallway I related, as briefly as possible, the astounding events of the night.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

These latter, two in number, are adapted to a kind of receptacle made of boards and presenting the appearance of a small closet.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various