Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, son of him who played so conspicuous a part in the early chapters of this history,--Villiers of Buckingham, a handsome cavalier, melancholy with women, a jester with men,--and Wilmot, Lord Rochester, a jester with both sexes, were standing at this moment before the Lady Henrietta, disputing the privilege of making her smile.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

It is clear and perfectly intelligible to every candid and prayerful inquirer.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Certain Rip Van Winkles of bottles with tattered garments, dust-begrimed faces, and cobwebs in their hair were lifted tenderly from the side-board and awakened to consciousness (some of them hadn't opened their mouths for twenty years, except to have them immediately stopped with a new cork), and placed in the expectant coasters, Todd handling each one with the reverence of a priest serving in a temple.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

The usual cry at present is that electric cars are very nice, but the owners have great difficulties with the batteries.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

While these primary and urgent tasks are being diligently prosecuted, the utmost effort should be exerted to stimulate the all-important process of multiplying and consolidating the newly-established assemblies, groups and isolated centres in both Germany and Austria as the essential pre-requisite to the early formation of independent National Assemblies in both countries occupying so central a position in the European continent, and destined to play so vital a part in the promotion of the interests of the Faith in the heart and in the eastern as well as the southern regions of that continent.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Effendi Shoghi

Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, son of him who played so conspicuous a part in the early chapters of this history,—Villiers of Buckingham, a handsome cavalier, melancholy with women, a jester with men,—and Wilmot, Lord Rochester, a jester with both sexes, were standing at this moment before the Lady Henrietta, disputing the privilege of making her smile.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

298 Deceit has, in fact, often constituted a great share of the glory of the most celebrated commanders; and particularly in the eighteenth century it was a common opinion that successes gained through a spy are more creditable to the skill of a general than successes in regular battles.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

As regards Roman cemeteries, as placed in the extreme corner of a holding, see Lachmann, pp. 271–2; De Sepulchris Dolabell .
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

[Footnote 219: A Latin hymn was also chanted at Pisa, in the eleventh century, to celebrate a victory over the Saracens.]
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various