The horse went lame a mile from town, and afterward got to cutting up some extraordinary capers.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The kidnapping of the artist, the death of the Comte de Chagny under such exceptional conditions, the disappearance of his brother, the drugging of the gas-man at the Opera and of his two assistants: what tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and the sweet and charming Christine! ...
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

And as, on the other hand, the wants of the government can never obtain an adequate supply, unless all the sources of revenue are open to its demands, the finances of the community, under such embarrassments, cannot be put into a situation consistent with its respectability or its security.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Dissolutio foederis in corpore, ut sanitas est consummatio.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

XIV Pensando estaba así la señá Torcuata, y ya se dirigía a las hornillas con una sartén en cada mano, cuando se oyeron sonar en la calle gritos y silbidos de viejas y chicuelos, y voces de gente más formal que decía: 20 —¡Señor Alcalde!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

de Rome , 1869, p. 384: “L'infallibilité du Pape, décidant en matière de foi ex cathedrâ , c'est-à-dire comme maître de l'Eglise étant déjà admise par tous les vrais catholiques, un décret du Concil fera juste l'effet d'une confirmation d'une chose universellement sue et crue.”
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

In the older nations, by natural reaction, these colleges, under strict ecclesiastical control, have sent forth the most bitter enemies the Christian Church has ever known—of whom Voltaire and Renan and [Pg 144] Saint-Beuve are types; and there are many signs that the same causes are producing the same result in our own country.
— from The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White

"We ate very heartily in the said town, for the sake of giving them pleasure, so that they showed that they were pleased and they entertained us with their instruments from twelve o'clock of the day that we arrived till two o'clock in the afternoon, when, in answer to the previous messenger which I sent to the petty King of my coming to his territory, there came up some eighty canoes, full of Indians, painted and dressed for war, with very large quivers of arrows, though all were left in the canoes,--all the canoes escorting and accompanying the petty King, who with about five hundred Indians came forward to receive us.
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means

Therefore it is particularly important to remove serviceable boots from prisoners of war and to make immediate use of all suitable clothing, underwear, socks, et cetera.’ ”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

"Better let dat gal mosey 'long, honey, 'kaze she mout start in fer ter cut up some 'er capers in yer, en I hate mighty bad ter bus' up dis yer axe-helve, w'ich
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Then I followed you out of the house, which I disliked doing very much, and I seem to have spent a considerable portion of the time since, in your company, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

" "Then maybe your shoe laces won't come undone so easily," challenged Grace, and she thrust out her own dainty shoe, and tapped the patent leather tip of Mollie's tie.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope

The real reason was, that both ladies were moved in their feminine hearts by the idea of so old an acquaintance going a journey to a far land, and were sensitively anxious to show him all the honour and attention they could under such exceptional circumstances.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

Abdur Rahman executed or exiled all those whose political influence he saw reason to fear, or of whose disaffection he had the slightest suspicion; his administration was severe and his punishments were cruel; but undoubtedly he put down disorder, stopped the petty tyranny of local chiefs and brought violent crime under some effective control in the districts.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg