And Herod taking care the people should understand that this help came from himself, did thereby not only remove the ill opinion of those that formerly hated him, but gave them the greatest demonstration possible of his good-will to them, and care of them; for, in the first place, as for those who were able to provide their own food, he distributed to them their proportion of corn in the exactest manner; but for those many that were not able, either by reason of their old age, or any other infirmity, to provide food for themselves, he made this provision for them, the bakers should make their bread ready for them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Phases of Chinese Myth We cannot identify the earliest mythology of the Chinese with that of any primitive race.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Madame Merle and the Countess Gemini sat a little apart, conversing in the effortless manner of persons who knew each other well enough to take their ease; but every now and then Isabel heard the Countess, at something said by her companion, plunge into the latter’s lucidity as a poodle splashes after a thrown stick.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

‘What new phase of his character is this?’ exclaimed Mrs. Linton, in amazement.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Mamahunpáhun ang kabukíran sa sayung kabuntágun, The mountains loom clear in the early morning light.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

FROG.—And so relinquish the hopefullest cause in the world: a claim that will certainly in the end make thy fortune for ever.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

The girls now and again took a walk with him, chiefly in the early morning or late at night, or on a wet day when there would be no one about; they professed to be willing to go out at all times, but somehow something always seemed to occur to prevent it.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

There were a good many strikes in different parts of the country in the early months of 1886.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

A detailed history of the further development of the human embryo does not fall within the province of this work; while the later changes in the embryonic membranes have already been dealt with ( pp.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

convertible State bonds is unjustified by prevailing conditions in the European money market."
— from Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Simeon Strunsky

Now the custom is, that every man of means and every owner of land in Ulster, should, once in a year or so, invite the King and his chiefs to spend a few days, it may be a week or a fortnight, at his house, that he may give them entertainment.
— from Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster by Eleanor Hull

Great carts bearing vegetables, eggs, butter, berries and "garden truck" beyond mentioning, might be seen wending their way along the roads leading to the city in the early mornings on market days, and the products of the field, garden, poultry yard, etc., were offered for sale in and around the large market-house that was situated in the centre of the city.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

Daphne chased by Apollo, may perhaps—though I doubt even this much of consistence in the earlier myth—have meant the Dawn pursued by the Sun.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

“If he returns this way at all, he will come in the evening,” muttered Ian to himself, as he sat down on a stump and surveyed his handiwork with a smile of satisfaction.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He has a greater knowledge of the capabilities of the estate, and of country interests, than even my father had—don’t be angry; I have often heard him say so—or, I need not add, than I am [54] likely to acquire, though I live to the age of Methuselah, which God forbid.
— from Landseer's Dogs and Their Stories by Sarah Tytler

If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science.
— from The Spinners' Book of Fiction by Spinners' Club

[Pg 138] CHAPTER IV THE EMPRESS' MILLIONS I De Marmont, having successfully shot his poisoned arrow and brought down his enemy, had no longer any ill-feeling against Clyffurde.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness