Immediately the aldermen, clothed in their cloth robes and preceded by six sergeants, each holding a FLAMBEAU in his hand, went to attend upon the king, whom they met on the steps, where the provost of the merchants made him the speech of welcome--a compliment to which his Majesty replied with an apology for coming so late, laying the blame upon the cardinal, who had detained him till eleven o’clock, talking of affairs of state.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

3rd—An Artificial Horizon on the construction recommended and practiced by Mr. Andrw.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

and she went one night to a ball, the first in the habit of a shepherdess, Emily in that of a shepherd: I saw them in their dresses before they went, and nothing in nature could represent a prettier boy than this last did, being so fair and well limbed.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

After which, of course, the usual romanticist finale at once strikes up,—rupture, collapse, return and prostration before an old belief, before the old God....
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Good coffee, carefully roasted and properly brewed, produces a natural beverage that, for tonic effect, can not be surpassed, even by its rivals, tea and cocoa.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

93 A few other Grand Lodges have adopted a similar regulation; but the prevailing opinion of the authorities appears to be, that it is competent to interfere with the right to demit, certain rights and prerogatives being, however, lost by such demission.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I do not now recall whether or not the culprits received any punishment; but at any rate, the preacher's desire for vengeance was not satisfied.
— from Trials and Triumphs of Faith by Mary Cole

As usual, Mattie made as many caustic remarks as possible, but Jane refused to answer.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

It was the more particularly noticed because when Morton himself had been forced to fly to England, on account of his share in Rizzio's murder, he had been courteously received and protected by the unhappy nobleman whom he had now delivered up to his fate.
— from Mary Queen of Scots in History by C. A. Campbell

He had dim recollections of Claremont reading a poem by Mrs Browning on "the great God Pan" and how cruel it was to "make a poet out of a man!"
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

When the seminary was reached, the lad assisted the haughty girl from the car with his never-failing courtesy, accompanied her to the door, ventured a conciliating remark at parting, but was not even rewarded with a glance.
— from Sisters by Grace May North

Masses of camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas, primroses, bruyères , pelargoniums constantly succeed each other.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

I examined them carefully; they showed me that his marriage alone had been the great obstacle to his reconciliation with the Church; his other offences had been pardoned and the ecclesiastical censure removed at Paris by Cardinal Caprara in the name of the Pope.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de