So there came one morning and sunrise when all the world got up and set about its various works and pleasures, with the exception of old John Sedley, who was not to fight with fortune, or to hope or scheme any more, but to go and take up a quiet and utterly unknown residence in a churchyard at Brompton by the side of his old wife.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Accordingly, studies of the minute pathology of the various organs have been undertaken in many laboratories throughout the world (Italy, India, England, Germany and the United States).
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

I took into account also the very different character which a person brought up from infancy in France or Germany exhibits, from that which, with the same mind originally, this individual would have possessed had he lived always among the Chinese or with savages, and the circumstance that in dress itself the fashion which pleased us ten years ago, and which may again, perhaps, be received into favor before ten years have gone, appears to us at this moment extravagant and ridiculous.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

The story is told of the attempted mission of Egbert to Germany and the unsuccessful venture of Witbert.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Seeing Malahin, the guard sighs guiltily and throws up his hands.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The robe of a duke has four guards of ermine at equal distances, with gold lace above each guard and tied up to the left shoulder by a white riband.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunderpeals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The lama groaned as the Unjust Judge had groaned before him.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Nagkalúbid íyang dílà pagsinultig ininglis, His tongue gets all twisted up in trying to speak English.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To look for an increase of light in the knowledge of his relation to God and the unseen world, in the laws which regulate Islám on earth is to admit that Muhammad's revelation was incomplete, and that admission no Muslim will make.
— from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell

There will be, as there must and should be, a free and frank interchange of views and arguments, in all sincerity and charity, even as in the council of the apostles at Jerusalem there was a great discussion before the definitive result was declared with authority: It hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

On the Sunday afternoon as we were sauntering about the garden, Adrian touched upon the subject in a man's shy way when speaking to his fellow man.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke

“It is the happiest moment of my life,” said Little Dudleigh, with greater animation than usual, “since I have heard you say that.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

3. Also, when the ship is ready to depart, you shall come for your cockets and letters to the agent, and shall show him all such letters as you have received of any person or persons privately or openly, to be delivered to any person or persons in Russia or elsewhere, and also to declare if you know any other that shall pass in the ship either master or mariner that hath received any letters to be privily delivered to any there, directed from any person or persons, other than from the agent here to the agent there; which letters so by you received, you shall not carry with you, without you be licensed so to do by the agent here, and some of the four merchants as is aforesaid; and such others as do pass, having received any privy letters to be delivered, you shall all that in you lieth let the delivery of them at your arriving in Russia; and also if you have, or do receive, or shall know any other that doth or hath received any goods of ready money to be employed in Russia, or to be delivered there to any person or persons from any person or persons other than such as be the company’s goods, and that under their mark, you shall, before the ship cloth depart, declare the same truly to the said agent, and to some of the other merchants to him adjoined, as it is before declared.
— from The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt

"And now," he finished, glaring at the uncomfortable young man, "you bring your duds and put them in Miss Hampton's section.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

They joined the gallery, after the usual ceremonies at the nineteenth hole.
— from Fore! by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

So, sadly and silently, with many a tear, they retired to their tents, where they were at liberty to indulge their grief at the unhappy end of their young favourite.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

But God without the Universe would not be the same as God with the Universe; whence the conclusion that God and the Universe can only be conceived of as correlatives.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

Knowing that the Doctor was about to leave Washington the Senator had come to wish him goodby, and to urge him to visit his brother at Thomasville, Georgia, where we were to stop on our way to Mexico.
— from T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him by Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage