The old meeting-house, erected in 1661, had become too small for the congregation and dangerously dilapidated; in fact, on a Sunday in March in the year the new building was completed, while Edwards was preaching, just after he had “laid down his doctrines” from the text, “Behold, ye despisers, wonder and perish,” the front gallery, “with a noise like a clap of thunder,” suddenly and dramatically fell.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

“I have no title to more,” said Catharine; “and deeply do I feel the kindness that is willing to secure me such honourable protection.
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

It is at the Woodbine and in addition to being the oldest racing fixture in America it is also just such a day for Canada as Derby Day is for England.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

When one of our number walks in the corridor for exercise, curtains are drawn down in front of all the cells, and we see upon them what our fellow-inmate often resembles—a shadow.
— from The Room with the Little Door by Roland Burnham Molineux

The interference of the Zwinglians in German affairs also filled him with apprehension, for of their doctrines, so far as they were opposed to those of Wittenberg, he cherished a deep dislike imbibed from Luther.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Every steamer for several years had carried away drafts drawn in favour of one, Chun Ah Chun, for deposit in those Far Eastern banks.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London