"This Rook is poor, and hasn't got any rich relations, has he?"
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

fitness, aptness &c. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey[obs3]; sortance|; case in point; aptitude, coaptation[obs3], propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation &c. (relation) 9. adaption[obs3], adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Some mention was made also of the woman in white that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Young girls also ran races in the Stadium, at which he presided in his sandals, dressed in a purple robe, made after the Grecian fashion, and wearing upon his head a golden crown bearing the effigies of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva; with the flamen of Jupiter, and the college of priests sitting by his side in the same dress; excepting only that their crowns had also his own image on them.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

33 But their simple freedom was of a very different cast from the nice and artificial machinery of the Greek and Roman republics, in which each member possessed an undivided share of the civil and political rights of the community.
— 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

It was in this manner, by facilitating the acquisition of their military and gymnastic exercises, by encouraging it, and even by imposing upon the whole body of the people the necessity of learning those exercises, that the Greek and Roman republics maintained the martial spirit of their respective citizens.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor worthy only of wandering savages."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I saw its green and red running lights, plus the white lantern hanging from the large stay of its foremast.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

"This Rook is poor and hasn't got any rich relations, has he?" "No, but he has many warm friends.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Look at the blue enamel-like flowers, each with a yellow centre-eye; the leaves are bright green and rather rough.
— from Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton

But sputum had also a place in the Greek and Roman rituals.
— from The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes by Petronius Arbiter

Thus they entered the garden, and Regina recovered her calm.
— from Nostalgia by Grazia Deledda

Gus and Rita roared.
— from Peggy Goes Straw Hat by Virginia Hughes

Oh, battles of gold and rare Raiment and starred hair, And bright veils crossed amid tresses tossed In a dusk of dancing air!
— from The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Euripides

THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT ROCKY RANCH Or Great Days Among the Cowboys.
— from The Radio Boys at Ocean Point; Or, The Message that Saved the Ship by Allen Chapman

Two persons, Gerard and Roubaud, received and carried away in their arms, Denise Tascheron, unconscious.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac