The ministers of the three denominations in London, anxious not to be misled, requested one of their brethren to visit the scenes of persecution, and examine with impartiality the nature and extent of the evils they were desirous to relieve.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Mistakes become, at least according to my experience, still more frequent when the difficulty is logical and not empirical.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Sundays, and days in Lent, are not chosen for weddings, and Friday being a "fast" day in Catholic and very "high" Episcopal churches, weddings on that day, if not forbidden, are never encouraged.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The family priest, an old, tolerant Sarsut Brahmin, dropped in later, and naturally started a theological argument to impress the family.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The directions for making it run as follows:— Make an image of dough, in length about nine inches, and representing the opposite sex to that of the patient.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I was pretty smart and well dressed in London, and now I was a regular tramp.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

At this moment the party burst suddenly out of darkness into light; and not only into light, but into the midst of a multitude of singing, dancing, and shouting people, massed together on the river frontage.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

In the Matabeleland today—why, there we are confining ourselves to sanctified custom, we Rhodes-Beit millionaires in South Africa and Dukes in London; and nobody cares, because we are used to the old holy customs, and all we ask is that no notice—inviting new ones shall be intruded upon the attention of our comfortable consciences.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

She only understood two facts—that Frederick had been in danger of being pursued and detected in London, as not only guilty of manslaughter, but as the more unpardonable leader of the mutiny, and that she had lied to save him.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Well, it did come over me rather like cold water down the neck, that there was I alone in the strongest dungeon in London and not a living soul knew where I was."
— from Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah

Your doings in life are no affair of mine.
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

But while her utter defeat is the necessary preliminary condition to her entrance into a League of Nations, the inclusion of Germany in the League, after her utter defeat, is likewise a necessity.
— from The League of Nations and Its Problems: Three Lectures by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Also they’re as faithful as the day is long, an’ never get drunk or mutinous.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Why thus do I loiter and not knock at the door?
— from The Clouds by Aristophanes

Like demons indeed Link and Nels worked.
— from The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

The thought of your danger is like a nightmare to me.
— from The Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim