They have forced themselves upon the sensibility of the people at large, and have at length extorted from those, whose mistaken policy has had the principal share in precipitating the extremity at which we are arrived, a reluctant confession of the reality of those defects in the scheme of our federal government, which have been long pointed out and regretted by the intelligent friends of the Union.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The bridegroom is then carried off by his friends to the outer chamber, where he has to pay his respects ( minta’ maʿaf , lit.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I went a little fearfully; and he held the paper in his hand, and said, Now, Pamela, you come upon your trial.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Within reach of her hand they placed a small table upon which stood a bottle of orangeade, her usual beverage, and a glass.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The few words she had to speak— Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss— with the brief dialogue that follows, were spoken in a thoroughly artificial manner.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

At the Renaissance and the German club he used always to be a little drunk, to spend a lot of money on women, patiently put up with all their tricks—for instance, when Vanda poured the beer on his head, he only smiled and shook his finger at her—but now he looked dull and sleepy; he had the pompous, chilly expression of a superior, and he was chewing something.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was in one of those assemblies he had the pleasure of seeing his friend Sir Stentor, dressed in the most fashionable manner, and behaving with all the overstrained politesse of a native Frenchman.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And he left the valet busy in getting the horses ready, and went homewards himself to prepare for his departure.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Hunger made viands once repugnant, now acceptable; he held the plate in his hand for an hour at a time, and gazed thoughtfully at the morsel of bad meat, of tainted fish, of black and mouldy bread.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Chemnitz says: "This presence of the assumed nature in Christ of which we now treat is not natural or essential [flowing from the nature and essence of Christ's humanity], but voluntary and most free, depending on the will and power of the Son of God ( non est vel naturalis vel essentialis, sed voluntaria et liberrima, dependens a voluntate et potentia Filii Dei ); that is to say, when by a definite word He has told, promised, and asseverated that He would be present with His human nature, … let us retain this, which is most certainly true, that Christ can be with His body wherever, whenever, and in whatever manner He wills ( Christum suo corpore esse posse, ubicunque, quandocunque et quomodocunque vult ).
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

In 519, under Pope Hormisdas, the schism of Acacius had collapsed, and the most emphatic acknowledgment of all which the Popes had claimed in the contest with him, and with the emperors Zeno and Anastasius, who favoured him, had taken place.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Giscon spoke in an ordinary matter-of-fact tone, as if he were discussing the arrangements of a party of pleasure; but Malchus could scarcely repress a movement of anxiety as he heard this proposal for the wholesale destruction of the leading men of Carthage.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

[Pg 167] upon resident aliens, and had them punished for their insolent conduct towards him, Xenokrates, afterwards meeting the sons of Lykurgus, said, "My children, I am making your father an honourable return for his kindness, he has the praises of the whole people for what he did for me."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

He would rather eat ices on a pier than in an ordinary shop, though he has to pay more for them, the cost of the ice being the same and the two pence for entry into the enchanted region being an extra.
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

but as I hurried hither the prefects of the quarter were running about like mad.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. I. The Patricians by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

The White bear have become so troublesome to us that I do not think it prudent to send one man alone on an errand of any kind, particularly where he has to pass through the brush.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The "Reign of Terror" had begun in France, where the most appalling revolution in history had taken place.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

The obligation to pay rent no more creates political dependency, than to give credit from an ordinary shop; not so much, indeed, more especially under such leases as those of the Rensselaers; for the debtor on a book-debt can be sued at any moment, whereas the tenant knows precisely when he has to pay.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

The rustling came nearer, and he heard the panting of a dog—with a mumbled oath he sat up in the fern.
— from The Three Furlongers by Sheila Kaye-Smith