For if any of the miracles of their gods are great, certainly that is a great one which Varro mentions of a vestal virgin, who, when she was endangered by a false accusation of unchastity, filled a sieve with water from the Tiber, and carried it to her judges without any part of it leaking.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They lived in a one-and-a-half-room cabin in the hollow of the farm, near the spring.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

What became of my wits I cannot imagine; they have always had a perverse trick of deserting me just when they were most needed; but so it chanced, that in the confusion of our overthrow I quite forgot that there was a Mrs. Bullfrog in the world.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no limit to the situations and curious combinations in this hunt.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a show of public meetings.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

How could they give rise to this confidence if they had had their origin in a sensation of feebleness and impotency?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Gradually they are habituated to other company; and a change in their habitudes soon makes a way for a change in their opinions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

A sense of honor, and the fear of universal reproach, forbade Palæologus to resign the city into the hands of the Ottomans; and he determined to abide the last extremities of war.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

During this period Mr. Lithgow was attended by a negro woman, a slave, who found means to furnish him with refreshments still more amply than the Turk, being conversant in the house and family.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Rashiduddin calls it Leung-Shan, which appears to be the mountain range still so called in the heart of Shensi.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Robert Grant Burns had come into the hollow unsuspectingly.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower

The voice which the Duke and his family raised in vindication of his innocence of the crimes imputed to him, having been too feeble to withstand the accusations and calumnies of his enemies, contained in the flagitious publication "Philippica in Ducem Ulericum," has been silenced by the revolutions of time.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

On September 12 Little Crow sent in another letter, in which he harped upon his prisoners, covertly intimating that he would surrender them on guaranty of immunity for himself and associates.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

So overcome was she with the excitement that she had to be carried into the house, where she lay upon the sitting-room sofa, quite hysterical.
— from Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

Her high forehead, prominent cheekbones, and rather long chin imparted considerable irregularity to her features, but this was soon forgotten in the charm of the young girl's face and expression; for the forehead, fair as alabaster, and surrounded with a wealth of rich chestnut hair, surmounted blue eyes of infinite sweetness, while rich scarlet lips, pearl white teeth, and a smile that was both ingenuous and melancholy seemed to implore forgiveness for the imperfections of the face.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

It became common in the highest circles of society for ladies, married and single alike, to dispense almost entirely with a female attendant, and following that most indecent and beastly of all continental habits, to permit all the offices of a waiting woman to be performed for them by men.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

That the Pastors of the respective parishes may be allowed not only publicly to preach, but personally to catechize or otherwise instruct the several families, admitting none to the Lord's Table that have not personally owned their Baptismal covenant by a credible profession of faith and obedience; and to admonish and exhort the scandalous, in order to their repentance: to hear the witnesses and the accused party, and to appoint fit times and places for these things, and to deny such persons the communion of the Church in the holy Eucharist, that remain impenitent, or that wilfully refuse to come to their Pastors to be instructed, or to answer such probable accusations; and to continue such exclusion of them till they have made a credible profession of repentance, and then to receive them again to the communion of the Church;—provided there be place for due appeals to superior power.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge