was suppressing the religious houses in England, caused all the relics and images to be removed out of the two cathedrals in Dublin, and the other churches in his diocese; in the place of which he caused to be put up the Lord's prayer, the creed, and the ten commandments.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind!
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

When the explosion came and the rocks and smoke shot into the air, we would go back and find about a bushel of that hard, rebellious quartz jolted out.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The exiles continually appealed to Rome; and after Philopoemen’s death ( B.C. 183) the affairs of the league began more and more to come before the Roman Senate.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The Princess Frederica of Hanover, however, uses an English coronet and the Royal Arms of England, presumably preferring her status as a princess of this country to whatever de jure Hanoverian status might be claimed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“I shall see your cousin in town soon: he talks of being there tolerably soon; and Sir Thomas, I dare say, in the course of the spring; and your eldest cousin, and the Rushworths, and Julia, I am sure of meeting again and again, and all but you.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But observation was wasted on Stafford who had nothing to conceal, who was merely what he appeared to be, a faded and tired-looking man of middle height, with blue eyes and brown hair turning grey, and wellworn evening clothes a trifle rubbed at the cuffs.
— from Nightfall by Anthony Pryde

It is one of the few things they are rigorous about, and I think members of this committee may have had experience with the English customs and their rule about that.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

Our Camp 54 was elevated considerably above the river, and the surroundings being open, we had views in all directions.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

That done, he carried the elder child across the road again, and Eliza went upon her way back down the long narrow pavement, with the children at her side.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall

In the immense, splendidly lighted theatre, filled with an excited crowd, all the rich and elegant details of the score will be lost through the stuff of the women’s dresses and the diminished sonority of a building crowded in pit, boxes, and gallery.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Several hundred cartloads of rubbish are wheeled into the mine, so as to block up the entrance completely; and this rubbish acts as a dam to prevent the springs and land waters from flowing out, so that the mine gradually becomes flooded.
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

[Pg 463] appeared from a land which an enervating climate and the rapidly advancing barbarism of slavery rendered far fitter for another sort of inhabitants, namely, the buccaneers.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

The front compartment held the ticket and telegraph and mail and express chattels, and the railing, and room for the public to stand; through a door you then passed to the sitting, dining, and sleeping box; and through another to a cooking-stove in a pigeon-hole.
— from Lin McLean by Owen Wister