They appear and disappear, are now deep, now shallow, now broken off or lengthened or swelling.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

If activity, be seen on your barbary often, or leaping over stools, for the credit of your back.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

King Edward accused Robert archbishop of Canturburie vnto the pope, for that he should go about to trouble the quiet state of the realme, and to defend and succour rebellious persons, wherevpon the said archbishop being cited to the popes consistorie, was suspended from executing his office, till he should purge himselfe by order of law, of such crimes as were laid and obiected against him.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (09 of 12) Edward the First, Surnamed Longshanks, the Eldest Sonne of Henrie the Third by Raphael Holinshed

This was the kingdom of God among men—He proclaimed a kingdom based only on love, on spiritual union between God and man; a kingdom not of this world, and that came not with observation; a kingdom within men, real, abiding, universal.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

"The most ordinary kinds consist of two square pens built out of logs of six or eight inches thick, and from sixteen to twenty feet long.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

This is Wednesday, you ought to be out of London on Saturday.
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade

The material basis of our life, our social and industrial system, is entirely incompatible with the moral conviction and duties of this age.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

[393] In other words, the bronze threshold is an archaic synonym for the enduring border, or outer limit, of spiritual domain.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull