But a stronger confirmation of my views may be found in a remarkable group (see Fig.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

But a second cousin o' mine, a drovier, was a rare hand at remembering the Scotch tunes.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Among those were Major Loder (unattached), and Captain Rook (late of the Rifles), who might be seen any day on the Dike, smoking and staring at the women, and who speedily got an introduction to the hospitable board and select circle of Mr. Joseph Sedley.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

One morning an old basket made its appearance, suspended by a short cord outside Martin's window, in which were deposited an amateur nest containing four young hungry jackdaws, the pride and glory of Martin's life, for the time being, and which he was currently asserted to have hatched upon his own person.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Only in the morning my Lady Batten did send to speak with me, and told me very civilly that she did not desire, nor hoped I did, that anything should pass between us but what was civill, though there was not the neighbourliness between her and my wife that was fit to be, and so complained of my maid’s mocking of her; when she called “Nan” to her maid within her own house, my maid Jane in the garden overheard her, and mocked her, and some other such like things she told me, and of my wife’s speaking unhandsomely of her; to all which I did give her a very respectfull answer, such as did please her, and am sorry indeed that this should be, though I do not desire there should be any acquaintance between my wife and her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I in great pain by a simple compressing of my cods to-day by putting one leg over another as I have formerly done, which made me hasten home, and after a little at the office in great disorder home to bed. 20th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But over her own daughters she had felt how far from simple and easy is the business, apparently so commonplace, of marrying off one’s daughters.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But in this terrible 1920 when America is being born again, she can only manage to be born again by knowing all about herself, by disrobing herself to be born again, by a supreme colossal act of self-devotion, self-discovery, self-consciousness and consciousness of the world, naked before God, reading the hearts of forty nations, a thousand years and the unborn, and knowing herself,—slipping off her old self and putting on her new self.
— from The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want by Gerald Stanley Lee

All bones and shells consist of mineral matter which makes them hard, and animal matter which makes them tough and strong.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

Half a cord of wood, arranged in alternate layers, was placed near the Council House, by a select committee of managers, for the sacrificial offering.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

I don't know why it was, or how it was, but a suspicion came over me.
— from Eliza by Barry Pain

Of course we accepted the invitation with great alacrity, but a shade came over Marcel's face.
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The idea of lofty houses of brick and stone, consisting of many stories, with a number of inhabitants, like those of London, Paris, Vienna, and many others, must not be compared with the nature of the Asiatic cities.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

This was also indicated by a second case of metal which had preserved them from damp, and which could not have been soldered in a moment of haste.
— from Abandoned by Jules Verne

Nevertheless, the Crusades, during two centuries, were suggested by the Sovereign Pontiffs, and by the councils of the Church, proclaimed by most holy personages, and authorized by their miracles; led by Christian princes of all Europe, by many of our kings, by a Saint Louis, by men full of religious zeal, such as Godfrey of Bouillon, and Simon, Count of Montfort.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

The King, first nobleman of his realm, surrounded in the first instance by a splendid court of mighty vassals, princes, dukes, and counts; in the second instance, by a numerous and wealthy lower nobility; ruling according to his discretion over his loyal burgesses and peasants, and thus being himself the chief of a complete hierarchy of social ranks or castes, each of which was to enjoy its particular privileges, and to be separated from the others by the almost insurmountable barrier of birth, or of a fixed, inalterable social position; the whole of these castes, or "estates of the realm" balancing each other at the same time so nicely in power and influence that a complete independence of action should remain to the King—such was the beau idéal which Frederick William IV.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels