H2 anchor CHAPTER VIII—PLANS OF THE HOUSE Forsytes, as is generally admitted, have shells, like that extremely useful little animal which is made into Turkish delight, in other words, they are never seen, or if seen would not be recognised, without habitats, composed of circumstance, property, acquaintances, and wives, which seem to move along with them in their passage through a world composed of thousands of other Forsytes with their habitats.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

A den of robbers was converted to the discipline of a camp or convent: patient to hear, swift to redress, inexorable to punish, his tribunal was always accessible to the poor and stranger; nor could birth, or dignity, or the immunities of the church, protect the offender or his accomplices.
— 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

They carried out certain procedures that, on the Nautilus , you could call "clearing the decks for action."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

These customs or custom prohibitions may be called ‘avoidances’.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

He also cut off Cneius Pompey, the husband of his eldest daughter; and Lucius Silanus, who was betrothed to the younger Pompey, was stabbed in the act of unnatural lewdness with a favourite paramour.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

At the foot of the church stood a smithy, generally red with fires and always littered with hammers and scraps of iron; opposite to this, over a rude cross of cobbled paths, was “The Blue Boar,” the only inn of the place.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The king of the Goths exhibited in his distress the edifying contrast of Christian piety and moderation; nor did he lay aside his sackcloth and ashes till he was prepared to arm for the combat.
— 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

He raised a company of cavalry, principally from his own tenants, joined Delancey, and was active in West Chester county, where, in a skirmish in 1781, he was severely wounded.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

They had (as Caesar saith) the charge of common & priuate sacrifices, the discussing of points of religion, the bringing vp of youth, the determining of matters in variance with full power to interdict so manie from the sacrifice of their gods and the companie of Hist.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

From a number of beautifully printed placards at the street corners, adorned with caricatures of considerable pungency, we discover an odd little election is in progress.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But by what path return we to the Cave Of Cacophysia? Per.
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

The word was passed from one to another, that the Yankee cart contained the famous abolitionist, Zachariah Longstraw; they pressed around to look at and revile me, to discourse with the kidnappers on my demerits, and to express their delight that such a renowned member of the incendiary gang, as they called that class of conscientious people, should at last be on the road to justice.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

The coincidences of cleavage point merely to a readily intelligible historical association.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

At the age of twenty, he became a bare-footed monk, of the Augustine order, and in 1669, was invited to Vienna, in the capacity of court preacher, an office he filled till his death, in 1709; preaching and writing the while with untiring zeal and industry.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

But when the only "drugs" that we use are fresh air, sunshine, and abundant food, and the only antitoxins those which are bred in the patient's own body; when, in fact, we are using for the cure of consumption precisely those agencies and influences which will prevent the well from ever contracting it , then the whole curative side of the movement becomes of enormous racial value.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson