He, as a matter of course, must not only have a different origin, but one in the highest degree superior and supernatural.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

[C] for siblings or close kin not to communicate directly but rather to hear from each other through letters or from other people either because of distance or because of bad personal relations.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One complains of want, a second of servitude, [1795] another of a secret or incurable disease; of some deformity of body, of some loss, danger, death of friends, shipwreck, persecution, imprisonment, disgrace, repulse, [1796] contumely, calumny, abuse, injury, contempt, ingratitude, unkindness, scoffs, flouts, unfortunate marriage, single life, too many children, no children, false servants, unhappy children, barrenness, banishment, oppression, frustrate hopes and ill-success, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was not till one of them died that he perceived their danger; one by one they were carried off by pestilence; and his wife, his helpmate and supporter, more necessary to him than his own limbs and frame, which had hardly been taught the lesson of self-preservation, the kind companion whose voice always spoke peace to him, closed her eyes in death.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I leave this void space that the reader may swear into it any oath that he is most accustomed to—For my own part, if ever I swore a whole oath into a vacancy in my life, I think it was into that—........., said I—and so my remarks through France, which were as full of wit, as an egg is full of meat, and as well worth four hundred guineas, as the said egg is worth a penny—have I been selling here to a chaise-vamper—for four Louis d'Ors—and giving him a post-chaise (by heaven) worth six into the bargain; had it been to Dodsley, or Becket, or any creditable bookseller, who was either leaving off business, and wanted a post-chaise—or who was beginning it—and wanted my remarks, and two or three guineas along with them—I could have borne it—but to a chaise-vamper!—shew me to him this moment, Francois,—said I—The valet de place put on his hat, and led the way—and I pull'd off mine, as I pass'd the commissary, and followed him.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

To disarm the Christians, superstition likewise contributed her terrors: and the subtle Arab encouraged the report of dreams, omens, and prophecies, and of the portraits of the destined conquerors of Spain, that were discovered on breaking open an apartment of the royal palace.
— 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

With such expressions of sorrow, Miss Petowker went on to enumerate the dear friends of her youthful days one by one, and to call upon such of them as were present to come and embrace her.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

No doubt she also belonged to the category of ordinary people who dream of being original, but she soon discovered that she had not a grain of true originality, and she did not let it trouble her too much.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All began bravely, but broke down one by one till Beth was left alone, singing with all her heart, for to her music was always a sweet consoler.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But I know that many are led to adopt notions no less extravagant of the authority of the Church and of tradition,--even to the full extent maintained by the Church of Rome,--because they see no other refuge from what appears to them, and not unreasonably, so miserable and so extreme a folly; for an extreme and a most miserable folly doubtless it would be, in any one, to throw aside all human aid except his own; to disregard alike the wisdom of individuals, and the agreeing decisions of bodies of men; to act as if none but himself had ever loved truth, or had been able to discover it; and as if he himself did possess both the will and the power to do so.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

Now, as a matter of fact, all sects claim to found their doctrine on Buddha or his work.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

She smiled appreciatively at him and dropped obligingly behind on the moonlit road.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Their people were Mohammedans, and were ruled over by persons called Deys or Beys, or Pachas.
— from A Short History of the United States for School Use by Edward Channing

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Among the societies which were instituted in Syria, none were more ancient or more illustrious than those of Damascus, of Berea or Aleppo, and of Antioch.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

He suffered these three officials, and them alone, to have the right to buy before all others what the Dayaks had to dispose of, but only at market price.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

Iohn duke of Burgognie hauing obteined licence to besiege Calis, prepared an armie of six thousand men of armes, fiftéene hundred crosbowes, & twelue thousand footmen, the which being assembled, and all necessarie prouision readie at saint Omers, he was by the French king countermanded, and not suffered to proceed anie further in that The chéefe root of the malice betwixt the dukes of Burgognie & Orleance.
— from Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

The first two verses of that poem went: Your scribe he is a soldier nit, Nor used to war's alarms; He never died, or bled, or fit, Save bugs upon his farms.
— from A Yankee in the Far East by George Hoyt Allen