During such a time, a woman is kept entirely away from the camp, half a mile at least.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

By the middle of December the anxiety of England reached the highest pitch, for the report came that Francis and Charles had actually met at Loches, and that their first interview had been marked by every demonstration of cordiality [677] .
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

My will chooses Him, and my activity labours for Him; both are real, and are personally mine.
— from Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

A moment later there came in two magnificent fellows, gendarmes, with swords and cocked hats, and moustaches a l'Abd el Kader, as we used to say in the old days; these four, the two gendarmes and two policemen, sat down opposite me on chairs and began cross-questioning me in Italian, a language in which I was not proficient.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

The phrase occurred to her again, and she remembered how often her father had applied it to women whose children had all married and left them.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

As Mr. Conway went away they huzzaed him thrice, stopped him to thank and compliment him, and made a lane for his passage.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

In the very act of the most stupendous self-assertion, Jesus can still characterize himself as "meek and lowly of heart," and we feel no self-contradiction—so completely has he harmonized for even our unconscious feeling his transcendent self-consciousness and his humble simplicity of life.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

It was easy for him to guess that the man they were pursuing had camped for a short time in the hut, cooked himself a meal and left the fire in the stove burning.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap

Gautier thinks, or seventy-two years ago he thought (and there has not been much change since), that “Cordova has a more African look than any other city of Andalusia; its streets, or rather its lanes, whose tumultuous pavement resembles the bed of dry torrents, all littered with straw from the loads of passing donkeys, have nothing that recalls the manners and customs of Europe.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells