Delay succeeded delay, and after that Dr. Farrar had been long unjustly detained in custody under sureties, in the reign of king Edward, because he had been promoted by the duke of Somerset, whence after his fall he found fewer friends to support him against such as wanted his bishopric by the coming in of queen Mary, he was accused and examined not for any matter of præmunire, but for his faith and doctrine; for which he was called before the Bishop of Winchester with bishop Hooper, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Bradford, Mr. Saunders and others, Feb. 4, 1555; on which day he would also with them have been condemned, but his condemnation was deferred, and he sent to prison again, where he continued till Feb. 14, and then was sent into Wales to receive sentence.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

At the end of a week we adjourned to the Sierras on a fishing excursion, and spent several days in camp under snowy Castle Peak, and fished successfully for trout in a bright, miniature lake whose surface was between ten and eleven thousand feet above the level of the sea; cooling ourselves during the hot August noons by sitting on snow banks ten feet deep, under whose sheltering edges fine grass and dainty flowers flourished luxuriously; and at night entertaining ourselves by almost freezing to death.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Putting out my hand in the darkness I came upon something which felt like a huge lump of meat, while my other hand closed upon a large bone.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Accordingly, as Senator Lodge said concerning the dreary years of continuous public disorders in Cuba under Spain, which we finally put a stop to in 1898: We were to go on pretending that the war was not there, etc.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Domus distinguitur in Conclavia , ut sunt Atrium , 1.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Lawyers vouch for his acquaintance with law; physicians for his skill in medicine; mad-doctors for his knowledge of the phenomena of mental disease; naturalists assert positively, from the internal evidence of his works, that he was a botanist and an entomologist; bishops, that he was a theologian; and claims have been put forth for his dexterity in cutting up sheep and bullocks.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

Suffice it to say for the present that the dialogues spoken of would disclose, if correctly understood, some of the most important secrets of Nature.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

But in his conversation he was mild and affable, not given to loquacity or much discourse in company, unless some urgent occasion required it.
— from The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables

“I’ll clear out,” she said, and, pausing as she passed through the door, “I could use some sort of a counter....”
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

The culture of the whole may be characterised by: main dependence upon maize and other cultivated foods (men doing the cultivating and cloth-weaving instead of women); use of a grinding stone instead of a mortar; the art of masonry; loom or upward weaving; cultivated cotton as a textile material; pottery decorated in colour; unique style of building and the domestication of the turkey.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane