Within the sphere organised about a firm and generous life a Roman peace can be established.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

So, in the name of Gallican liberties and royal privileges, the disciplinary portion was not published in France.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

But to be put in the Gazette like a ruined pork-butcher, that was terrible indeed!
— from A Whim, and Its Consequences Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

To go to Westward Ho! is not to make a mere visit of pleasure as to an ordinary course; it is, as is the case of a few other great links, a reverent pilgrimage.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin

George thought again of his anguish of long ago, when he saw her go away, return beneath the conjugal roof, into the house of a man of whom he knew nothing, into a world of which he knew nothing, into the platitudes and the pettiness of the middle-class life in which she was born, and in which she had grown like a rare plant in a common flower-pot.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

She had travelled in Europe, and after several visits, covering some years of time, had returned home, carrying in one hand, as it were, a green-grey landscape, a remarkably pleasing specimen of Corot, and in the other some bales of Persian and Syrian rugs and embroideries, Japanese bronzes and porcelain.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

For the first time I remarked his gluttonous lips and round, protruding belly.
— from Crimes of Charity by Konrad Bercovici

57 Alone upon the glacier; Lakes and Rivulets; parallel between Glacier and Geological disturbance; splendid rainbow; aspect of the glacier at the base of the Séracs; visit to the Chief Guide at Chamouni; Liberties granted 9. — The Jardin .
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall