Elaborate rules were laid down for the guidance of mankind, and an important school of literature grew up round the subject.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

a little before dark Drewyer R. Fields and LaPage returned having been also unsuccessfull they had killed a hawk only and taken the part of a salmon from an Eagle, the latter altho it was of itself not valuable was an agreeable sight as it gave us reason to hope that the salmon would shortly be with us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It had also a brazen hearth of network; for the ground underneath received the fire from the hearth, because it had no basis to receive it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

With onustus , the ablative is generally used, rarely the genitive.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

You will tell the gods to give us riches, that our hunters may return from the forest laden with rare furs and animals good to eat; that our fishers may find troops of seals on the shore and in the sea, and that their nets may crack under the weight of the fish.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He would sometimes ride ten or twelve stages at full gallop, utterly ruining the horses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

36-3: A guru usually refers to his own disciple simply by his name, omitting any title.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The exact meaning of these curious names is no longer intelligible to us, notwithstanding the terror which they formerly created, but their very strangeness gives us reason to suppose that the prison system was at that time subjected to the most odious refinement of the basest cruelty.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

To be sure, here we are; the very thing has happened, or rather worse,—a letter from Charles this very morning, which gives us reason to suppose [221] they may come here to-day.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

In the corner of the court of the principal tomb of this series, under a fallen stone divisional wall (original), was a number of long and well-made pottery cones, uninscribed; the position and state in which they were found, the wall having fallen and covered them at an early period, gives us reason to suppose that they belong to the tomb and are of the XIth Dynasty (see Fig.
— from Five Years' Explorations at Thebes A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter

The combination on the part of the tenants, we learned also from an intelligent New Yorker who was a fellow-passenger, extended much further than our accounts had given us reason to believe; and it was deemed decidedly dangerous for landlords, in many cases, to be seen on their own estates.
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

We had long ago given up reckoning time by the calendar, and days either were or were not "Rum days."
— from Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw

Mrs. Box went down the ladder even quicker than she had gone up, rushed to the window, and stared up and down the street.
— from Harper's Young People, November 16, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

He got up, raised the shade and looked in the glass.
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

The girls, without an instant's hesitation, whipped their gowns up round their necks; but their feet were wet and their skirts draggled.
— from The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Wait until I get up!" roared the victim, in a voice like a bull's bellow.
— from The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

It was very annoying, and he wished he had turned it off before he had sat down, but since some one was calling he got up reluctantly to learn who wanted him at that hour.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford