It was not prohibited by divine law, nor as yet had human law prohibited it; nevertheless, though legitimate, people shrank from it, because it lay so close to what was illegitimate, and in marrying a cousin seemed almost to marry a sister,—for cousins are so closely related that they are called brothers and sisters, [183] and are almost really so.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Small copper or base metal coins are still called RAPPEN in the Swiss cantons.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Is that your subjects' idea of equity, to put those who have nothing to do with you in the same category with peoples that are most of them your own colonists, and some conquered rebels? Athenians.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Or else the Verdurins were taking her to the Opéra-Comique, to see Une Nuit de Cléopâtre , and Swann could read in her eyes that terror lest he should ask her not to go, which, but a little time before, he could not have refrained from greeting with a kiss as it flitted across the face of his mistress, but which now exasperated him.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Your friend Mr. Smith's story, however, cannot be quite correct, as she corresponds regularly with Mrs. Mainwaring.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

I don't know i' what she's behind other folks's children; and she can read almost as well as the parson."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

But first note, in giving values to n , that 2, 3, and 4 counters are special cases, requiring respectively 3, 3, and 6 moves, and that 5 and 6 counters do not give a minimum solution by the second method—only by the first.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

A curious and servile crowd rapidly gathered round this group—the station-master, in his red cap, a gendarme, a thin young lady in a Russian costume, with beads round her neck, who made a point of seeing the trains come in all through the summer, a telegraph clerk, and passengers, men and women.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The cast and stage crew reported on time and Miss Williams checked each of them in.
— from Janet Hardy in Hollywood by Ruthe S. Wheeler

All along the crowded ranks, Horses neigh and armour clanks; Chiefs are shouting, clarions ringing, Louder still the bard is singing, “Gather, footmen,—gather, horsemen, To the field, ye valiant Norsemen!
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

'Then,' Miss Clitherow adds: 'She could really enjoy her society, which in the drawing-room is impossible.
— from Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family by Mary Clitherow

“We can always scream,” Cora remarked.
— from The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise; Or, The Cave in the Mountains by Margaret Penrose

Tyoshoke, now the name of a church at San Coick, Rensselaer County, is probably from an equivalent of Toyusk, Nar., "a bridge," and ohke, "Place"—a place where the stream was crossed by a log forming a bridge.
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber