But a rake; the kingdom of heaven be his!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A distinguished company was present, including his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, as representing the King of Prussia; Sir Stratford Canning, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary to the Porte; Baron Schleinitz, Prussian Chargé d'Affaires; the Prussian Consul-General Hebeler; Lord Ashley;
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The milking should be done in a sweet, clean place—either a stable kept scrupulously clean, and plaster or other deoderizer freely used, or in a row of stanchions in an open shed, with barely a roof to keep off storm and sunshine, and no filthy deposits allowed to accumulate [55] around it.
— from Hints on Dairying by T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis

Not that the stories are namby-pamby, or unreal in any sense; they are wholly free from the horrid prudery, the Pharisaical temper, which makes a merit of walking through life in blinkers and refuses to know of anything that can shock the respectable.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

The Grey Woman of Dun Gortin took a pinch of snuff from her box and raised the keen over her husband: “You were my husband and you are dead.
— from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

" From an exceeding high mountain, at the first taking on Him the ministry of life, He had beheld and rejected the kingdoms of the earth, and their glory: now, on a high mountain, He takes upon Him the ministry of death.
— from Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin

Below, The commanders of the British and American fleets, Admirals Beatty and Rodman, the King of England and the Prince of Wales viewing the surrender.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

Now even if he had spied the rattler first, the resulting flexion, though impulsive and involuntary, would still have been aroused by way of the motor area and the pyramidal tract, since the movement would have been a response to knowledge of what that object was and signified, and knowledge means action by the cerebral cortex, which we have seen to affect movement through the medium of the motor area.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

Solution of asphalt, to which oil has not been added, behaves as described above; if, however, oil is added to it, it acts still better as regards the keeping of the drawing, and the prints need no subsequent exposure.
— from Photo-Lithography by Georg Fritz

For an instant the thought of yielding presented itself, but only to be routed in the next breath by a resolve to keep on, to contest the race to the very end, to run until he dropped.
— from For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport by Ralph Henry Barbour