It was a gallant and decided triumph for Mrs. Bute.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

ATHENIAN: And are not all the Gods the chiefest of all guardians, and do they not guard our highest interests? CLEINIAS:
— from Laws by Plato

43-1 "The Hiranyaloka inhabitants have already passed through the ordinary astral spheres, where nearly all beings from earth must go at death; there they worked out many seeds of their past actions in the astral worlds.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The animals are gutted and despatched to the Court on carts.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Many at the table rose and yielded their places, clustering round the chimney-piece, or forming in various groups, and discussing the great question.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

HAZARD, game at dice; that which is staked. HEAD, "first—," young deer with antlers first sprouting; fig.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

They feasted and celebrated this rebuilding of the temple: and for the king, he sacrificed three hundred oxen to God, as did the rest every one according to his ability; the number of which sacrifices is not possible to set down, for it cannot be that we should truly relate it; for at the same time with this celebration for the work about the temple fell also the day of the king's inauguration, which he kept of an old custom as a festival, and it now coincided with the other, which coincidence of them both made the festival most illustrious.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Standing then with his face to the east, so as to look in the same direction as the patient, he grasped the “suspenders” of the tray with both hands at their converging point, and thrice muttered a charm, giving a downward tug to the cord of the tray at the end of each repetition.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

It was a large country-house standing back in its own grounds, and during the night a party of Germans had succeeded in concealing themselves inside.
— from A Surgeon in Belgium by Henry Sessions Souttar

The noise was so great all day, that the chancellor, whose court was situated in the square, complained to the regent and the municipality, that he could not hear the advocates.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The new guest was now in the hall of the George, and Doctor Torvey could hear him talking with Mr. Turnbull.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Part of the time I used the outposts of a stout gentleman to come between me and the ground, and during the rest of the occasion I hung on to a strap and swung out wild and free, like the Japanese flag on a windy day.
— from The Silly Syclopedia A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

But from that earth, that grave and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
— from Great Ralegh by Hugh De Sélincourt

that there should be such an “if”—if only it had not been that—by some impish freak of, God knows what, Mayor, p. 275 Corporation, or City Council—these sylvan lawns and glades are decorated, the horrible word stands well here, with a redundancy of statues, beside which some of Madame Tussaud’s figures might well be considered as works of art.
— from On the Wallaby Through Victoria by Elinor Mordaunt