This Humour of an Idol is prettily described in a Tale of Chaucer ; He represents one of them sitting at a Table with three of her Votaries about her, who are all of them courting her Favour, and paying their Adorations:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Hume considers his reign “one of the most fortunate that we meet with in the ancient English history.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Consequently he rushed out of the senatorial assembly in a rage, and after making to the populace a long speech against the senate resigned his command.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

After Chia Cheng had retired out of the hall, the Chia consort made it a point to ask: "How is it that I do not see Pao-yü?" and dowager lady Chia explained: "An outside male relative as he is, and without official rank, he does not venture to appear before you of his own accord."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

An intelligent man sees through it and despises it, consequently he remains out of the fashion.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

In concluding His rapid outline of Turkish schools and the Turkish educational system, my father mentioned the different art schools which are now prospering in Turkey as well as the medressés or theological schools where the Muslim religion is taught.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

Captain Hardy recapitulated one or two choice points, and was even at some pains to explain them.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Unique patrician wit, delicacy of feeling, knightly courtesy, have run out of their allotted conduits, and they color the speech of beggars.
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

Had the latter been more efficient, he could have reached one or the other before we regained the centre.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

CHAPTER V Ma's great love for children; her rescue of outcast twins from death; the story of little Susie, the pet of the household; and something about a new kind of birthday that came oftener than once a year.
— from The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

He sat there dazed for a moment, his face being now curiously streaked, for some of the powdered carbon had rubbed off on the mule's neck.
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Laura Lee Hope

If any compound has run over on the covers or case, remove it with a hot putty knife.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

Old car horses ripped out of the shafts an' soult for chargers.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

For the first time in Chinese history a merchant, a commoner, had reached one of the highest positions in the state.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard