To satisfy Captain Pencroft, it was now necessary to give a name to the vessel, and, after many propositions had been discussed, the votes were all in favor of the “Bonadventure.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For he relates that the Lord declares that He is coming to gather all nations, that they may come and witness His glory.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The mention of age evidently gave a new turn to Davy’s thoughts for after a few moments of reflection, he whispered solemnly: “Anne, I’m going to be married.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The commentators give a name to this sinner, but it is only guesswork.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Hardouin thinks that this appellation is intended to be given by Pliny to Asia in general, and not to the city of Apamea in particular, as imagined by Ortelius and others.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

This Cherokee secret society, which has recently achieved some newspaper prominence by its championship of Cherokee autonomy, derives its name—properly Kĭtu′hwă, but commonly spelled Ketoowah in English print—from the ancient town in the old Nation which formed the nucleus of the most conservative element of the tribe and sometimes gave a name to the Nation itself (see Kĭtu′hwagĭ , under Tribal Synonyms).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me, unless I know the meaning
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

An' what wut do when thy mother's gone, an' nobody to take care on thee as thee gett'st a bit o' victual comfortable
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

As if BC be the fifth Part of AC, the Light will be four times denser in B than in N, and the whole Light within the less Circle, will be to the whole Light within the greater, as nine to twenty-five.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

But she would prefer, honestly so, to go alone, not to take the old French servant whom in her heart she well knew the paralysed woman could ill spare.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

How shall we give a name to this miracle, perhaps the only one wrought upon a patient during his absence?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I say, Bowen, you've got a nice toy there," and he took up the pistol that lay on the table.
— from Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Compartment four, cigar-box, which is perfectly innocent, as it was borrowed out of house and home by compartment three, also had to give a note to the sugar-bowl, and I made the ginger-jar give me a note for my two dollars birthday-money.
— from Polly Oliver's Problem by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

He arose, and was seen pacing the wide apartment, gradually approaching nearer to the partition which separated the two rooms, evidently prepared to retire beyond the limits of hearing, the moment he should detect any proofs that his uneasiness was without a sufficient cause.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

The aeroplane dipped gracefully as Ned touched the lever.
— from Boy Scouts in the Northwest; Or, Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

the gay alcove, Nor tempt the snares of wily love.
— from Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Thomas Gray

It came about in this way: By reason of the normal Republican majority of the state the nomination by the Legislature in those days of a Democratic candidate for the United States senatorship was a mere compliment, a courtesy, a very meagre one indeed, and was generally paid to the old war horses of democracy like James E. Martine, of Plainfield, New Jersey; but the appearance of the doughty Colonel Harvey on the scene, at the 1907 session of the New Jersey Legislature, gave a new turn to this custom.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

"We can't do much till morning," said Billee Dobb when he and his companions had circled around the wondering cattle of the original herd, without getting any nearer to the solution of the mystery.
— from The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley; Or, Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard F. Baker