A mock struggle takes place, during which turmeric water is thrown by both sides, and an entrance into the house is finally effected.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She, perhaps, was piqued at Lord Hinchingbroke’s refusal “to compass the thing without consent of friends” (see February 25th), whence her expression, “indifferent” to have her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But I certainly didn't expect it to happen so soon.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

We next saw the dark and handsome features of a young man who, with easier gallantry than might have been expected in the heart of Yankee-land, was assisting her into the wagon.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The misunderstandings are therefore the following:— (1) The immortality of the individual; (2) The assumed existence of another world; (3) The absurd notion of punishment and expiation in the heart of the interpretation of existence; (4) The profanation of the divine nature of man, instead of its accentuation, and the construction of a very profound chasm, which can only be crossed by the help of a miracle or by means of the most thorough self-contempt; (5) The whole world of corrupted imagination and morbid passion, instead of a simple and loving life of action, instead of Buddhistic happiness attainable on earth; (6) An ecclesiastical order with a priesthood, theology, cults, and sacraments; in short, everything that Jesus of Nazareth combated ; (7) The miraculous in everything and everybody, superstition too: while precisely the trait which distinguished Judaism and primitive Christianity was their repugnance to miracles and their relative rationalism.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“And ought it not,” reflected Catherine, “to endear it to her husband?
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Thinking that the quarrel might have an unpleasant ending, I told him that Tiretta was only jesting, and I made my friend say so, too.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Laura at once accommodated herself to all his proceedings and finding that her hold of his hands rather obstructed his progress, she loosened it, and they were soon transferred to her splendid swelling globes, and then, as he became more and more excited in the hot struggle, were firmly clasped round her waist so as to bring their bodies into the closest possible contact.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

And now God bless thee, who should be an Esther in this house, wherein so many true confessors of Christ some years ago surrendered their lives in great misery and torments, rather than yield up their faith.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Esagila is the house of day.”
— from Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon

Everyone was anxious to see the famous woman, the first of rank to visit England in two hundred years.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

The main events in the history of the Ottoman Empire since the Treaty of Berlin were the French invasion of Tunis in 1881, the Treaty with Greece, executed under pressure of the Great Powers in 1881, by which Greece obtained Thessaly and a strip of Epirus; the occupation of Egypt by Great Britain in 1882; the revolution of Philippopolis in 1885, by which eastern Roumelia became united with Bulgaria.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

He will find in this, his first visit to our country, many things to remind him of his own home, and the pursuits in which he is engaged in that home.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

But there were two of the hens that did not like to lay eggs in the hen-house.
— from The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William John Hopkins

When she broached the subject to a few intimate friends in the Unitarian church and the Political Equality Club, she found they already had such arrangements well under way and they insisted that she should leave the matter entirely in their hands.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Her maternal anxiety had developed swiftly in these few hours of blissful companionship, and the world of wealth and comfort—for her boy's sake—had become suddenly of enormous importance to her.
— from Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland

The Concord Academy prepared Henry for college, and when he was sixteen, he trudged off to Cambridge and was duly entered in the Harvard Class of Eighteen Hundred Thirty-seven.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

We found old Jacob, the captain's chief groom, in charge of four clean-limbed, noble beasts as ever wore a saddle, and it was not an easy matter to persuade him we had authority to select such as we chose, for he claimed that until a lad had had much experience in the hunting field, he was not to be trusted with a choice of mounts.
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis