In the cloister, what is called the “government” is only an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always questionable.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The question was debated in the council of Medina; the sanctity of the place, and the advice of Ali, persuaded the caliph to gratify the wishes of his soldiers and enemies; and the simplicity of his journey is more illustrious than the royal pageants of vanity and oppression.
— 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

His command lay on the Tungking frontier, where he came to great grief in 1288, in consequence of which he was disgraced.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"I crossed the garden, and went into the lime-walk; the nighest way to the servants' hall took me through the shrubbery and past the dry well.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

You have the chance to get all sorts of culture and everything, and I just stay home—” “Well, gosh almighty, there's nothing to prevent your reading books and going to lectures and all that junk, is there?” “George, I told you, I won't have you shouting at me like that!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The Prarie Hen sometimes called the Grouse is peculiarly the inhabitent of the Great Plains of Columbia.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She wondered and could not understand it, because she had always disliked him before, but at last the feeling grew so strong that she was compelled to go herself to the man and tell him she loved him and wanted to be his wife.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

One dark night a stranger came to the âsĭ wanting to court the girl, but she told him her mother would let her marry no one but a good hunter.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The brother of Maurice attempted to violate this privilege, and to mingle a patriot band with the mercenaries of his camp; they retired to the church, he was not awed by the sanctity of the place; the people rose in their cause, the gates were shut, the ramparts were manned; and the cowardice of Peter was found equal to his arrogance and injustice.
— 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

"A fiery moon rose in the pale eastern sky, and out to the south-west hung the bow-shaped cloud, black as ebony, save when veined by the blood-red lightning; but as the majestic mass towered to the zenith, it changed to green, edged by a roll of fleecy white, which rose and fell as if weaving a shroud for sea and sky.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

But from various points in the geography of the Odyssey, it may, in my opinion, be gathered, that Homer had an idea, quite vague and indeterminate as to distance, of a connection by sea between the north of the Adriatic, and the north of the Ægean, either directly, or from the sea of Marmora: and it suited his representation of the Phæacians, and best maintained their as it were aerial character, to give them an unknown rather than a known route.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

The savage hunter and the haunted wood; The direful banquet why should I proclaim, [60] 325 And crimes that grieve the trembling gods to name?
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

But when they seek to honour by natural interpretation most vain fables or deeds of men, even the acutest men are so perplexed that we are compelled to grieve for their folly also.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

1828-30 This book being in more than one volume a collation of each is not given, as the statement of the number of [28] volumes is considered to give sufficient idea of its extent.
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn

As shade is a great object in growing coffee, the grounds are laid out in lines of fruit- trees, and these are the ministers of Hulia's tribulation; for Don Juan, whether in kindness or in mischief, insists that she shall taste every unknown fruit,—and as he cuts them and hands them to her, she is forced to obey.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Then, covering it with his hat, and inverting his hand, he caught the gleaming insect, and presented it to me with the ejaculation: “ Ya !”
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

[93] To amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and, in certain cases, to give the guarantee of Government to the depositors for the repayment of the sums legally deposited in such Savings Banks.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

The bottle so made may be rendered obedient to the commands of its owner, who, when he wishes it to stand upright and resist the commands of the bystanders, will previously have removed the pin; when he wishes it to act in the contrary manner he will insert the pin, which will be found to counteract the weight of the [59] bullet, and the bottle will obediently recline after receiving its owner's orders to do so; the owner of course then being careful to give such orders.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various