But the best thing of all was that the merchant Bronne, of Skjagen, into whose service Jurgen had proposed entering the year before, was just at that time on business in the town of Ringkjobing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

One day I fed the pet earlier than usual, as I had to attend to some business in the town of Ranchi.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

They asserted that these laws had been found inscribed in a golden book in the tomb of Rosencreutz, and that the six times twenty years from his death expired in 1604.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Or are they both in this their own reward?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

But when once the spell of royalty is broken in the tumult of revolution; when successive monarchs have crossed the throne, so as alternately to display to the people the weakness of their right and the harshness of their power, the sovereign is no longer regarded by any as the Father of the State, and he is feared by all as its master.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[ The ambiguity of this title is happy or ingenious; and moderator , as synonymous to rector , gubernator , is a word of classical, and even Ciceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the Glossary of Ducange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert Stephens.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

No greater burden and no more delicate work for a nation can be imagined than that of regenerating another whose nobility has grown powerful under corruption, and whose lower classes do not desire a higher existence.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

It will show our meek reasonableness, and then--" he looked round with a jubilant smile--"it seems to me such a beautiful idea that the only result of this attempt to gag us will be that the thousands of poor benighted souls will have a chance of hearing the Truth in many places instead of one."
— from The Hosts of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Page 282 Page 283 Robert Ainslie, with his family, emigrated from Scotland about the year of 1843, and settled upon a new farm in the backwoods, in the township of R. in Eastern Canada.
— from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell

After having said that she had been long imprisoned by the order of John of Luxembourg, he adds: "The said Luxembourg sold her to the English, who took her to Rouen, where she was harshly treated; in so much that after long delay, they had her publicly burnt in that town of Rouen, without a trial, of their own tyrannical will, which was cruelly done, seeing the life and the rule she lived, for every week she confessed and received the body of Our Lord, as beseemeth a good catholic."
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

In the opinion of the author above mentioned, the belief in the transmission of remedial virtues by the hands is derived from the fact that these members are the usual agents in the bestowal of material benefits, as, for example, in almsgiving to the poor.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

It was a memorable day, and, inter alia , for this: it was the first night that the good lord abbat slept within the walls of the abbey; for hitherto, on account of the cold and dampness of the new walls, he had betaken himself for his nightly rest either to a house close by in the town of Reading, or to the house of a God-fearing relation, who dwelt on the other side of Thamesis at Caversham.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

Its trunk was buried in the tangle of rank summer growth, but a branch had been broken off and left a hole in the main stem.
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

The castle was built in the time of Richard II.
— from Berkshire by Horace Woollaston Monckton

The Abbé Cittadella looked very serious and remarked that it is necessary to believe, or at least to seem to believe, in the truths of religion.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

But as those who have dust or dirt upon their bodies, if they touch or rub the filth that is upon them, seem rather to increase than remove it; so some men blame the Academics, and think them guilty of the faults with which they show themselves to be burdened.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch