The occasion of it was this: On a certain yearly high holiday, the burgomaster, syndics, and topping rabbies of the Gaillardets chanced to go into the neighbouring island Papimany to see the festival and pass away the time.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It therefore became an object of great importance to negotiate, if possible, a separate pacification with America.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

He had meant to go in and wait for Peters, but it would be a fool play from any angle to go in there now if Peters had anybody with him.
— from Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased.” Given in the new imperial palace at Persepolis. DARIUS, son of Hystaspes.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

The full significance of this feature of the Ordinance is only appreciated when we consider its continuous influence upon the American territorial and State policy in the westward expansion to the Pacific, and the political preconceptions with which Americans approach the problems of government in the new insular possessions.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

The appearance of -st- for -gsk- in the name is perhaps hardly to be regarded as an insuperable difficulty; for we know nothing of the languages involved or of the sound-changes to which they were subject.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

The phrase, “he who, like the sun, the light of the gods, irradiates the nations,” is perfectly applicable to him who, as Oannes, we have ever regarded as “the god of science and of knowledge” and who “taught astronomy and letters to the first settlers on the Euphrates and Tigris.”
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron