In some towns there are separate schools for the boys and the girls; in others the boys and girls attend the same schools.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

And so leaving the event with God, in obedience to the law I will now make my defence.
— from Apology by Plato

2 [A2; a12] for feelings to get into one’s being.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Aratus in person, at the head of some picked Achaean troops, protected the getting in of the harvest round Argos: while Euripidas at the head of a force of Aetolians set out on a raid, with the object of ravaging the territory of Tritaea.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

"I don't know what I should do," said the girl; "I only know that there are some of those ladies so cruel that they call their knights tigers and lions and a thousand other foul names: and Jesus!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Now till the blessed time shall come, when truth itself shall be pleasure, and both shall be so united, as to be distinguishable in words only, not in feeling, it will remain the poet's office to proceed upon that state of association, which actually exists as general; instead of attempting first to make it what it ought to be, and then to let the pleasure follow.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I forgot to say that they never remove ruins; everything is left to lie as it falls or is falling, so one gets a good idea of how gods are constructed.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

'Now, dearest Pa,' said Bella, when she became visible, 'put your hand in mine, and we'll run home as fast as ever we can run, and get it over.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Well, now we've been ethical and got it out of our systems, the question is where we can raise a loan to handle some of the property for ourselves, on the Q. T. We can't go to our bank for it.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The wish to marry, prudently indulged, will have a great influence on our character.
— from The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The Castle had further been put into the charge of Ladislas von Gara, the Queen's cousin, and Ban, or hereditary commander, of the border troops, and he had given it over to a Burggraf, or seneschal, who had placed his bed in the chamber where was the door leading to the vaults.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Mary herself, sensible of these difficulties, and convinced by experience that Elizabeth would forever debar her the throne, was now become more humble in her wishes; and as age and infirmities had repressed those sentiments of ambition by which she had formerly been so much actuated, she was willing to sacrifice all her hopes of grandeur, in order to obtain a liberty; a blessing to which she naturally aspired with the fondest impatience.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

Astonished as he was at Carducha's boldness, Andrew nevertheless answered her with the promptitude she desired, "Señora doncella, I am under promise to marry, and we gitanos intermarry only with gitanas.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Having decided to go away at all costs, she began to feel free from danger; her thoughts fell gradually into order, she became cheerful and even allowed herself to think about everything.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He sent us two thousand dollars worth of goods in gold value, thus generously supplying 115 every child and grandchild in our family with clothes.
— from Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure

Suddenly there arose a quarrel, the insignificance of its cause showing the tension which existed and the eagerness of all classes of the clergy to repress the growing influence of the Mendicants.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

The impression sought to be made upon these latter was that these white-robed night prowlers were the ghosts of the Confederate dead, who had arisen from their graves in order to wreak vengeance on an undesirable class of both white and black men."— Ryland Randolph.
— from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by John C. Lester

And Dr. Goode is out, too—hasn't seen any of his patients today.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve