His father, who discovered many marks of his early piety, particularly in his reprehensions of the vices of his companions, designed him at first for the church, and got him presented, May 21, 1521, to the chapel of Notre Dame de la Gesine, in the church of Noyon.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He has even papers, printed in Angrezi, telling what things he has done for weak-backed men and slack women.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

[Pg 54] helping—that an accident and a grief had happened worse than the drowning of all the negroes, which it has ever pleased Providence (in a darkness of mood) to create for us.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Down her course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels; Peals the horn exulting, peals Plaintive, is it near or far. Huntress, arrowy to pursue, In and out of woody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-lightning limbs Cleaving loads of leafy gloom.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

She had 'er picture printed in a paper along with some other church-women in town, an' somehow he got a-hold of it an' cut it out.
— from Westerfelt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Joshua Speed tells how Lincoln rode into Springfield on a borrowed horse to attend his first session of the legislature with all his earthly possessions packed into his saddle bags.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

Reports Liquid Scintillation Counting: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Northwestern University, August 20-22, 1957 , C. G. Bell, Jr. and F. N. Hayes (Eds.), Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, 1957, 292 pp., $10.00.
— from Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised) by Walter E. Kisieleski

No human society has ever proceeded purely in either of these two ways, but there has always been a mixture of both.—But
— from Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies. by John Robison

The marquis had a violent champion in Dr. Desaguliers, who in his Experimental Philosophy , published in 1743, imputed disreputable conduct to the later inventor.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson