It had also to be recorded that ‘Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king unto themselves,’ [ 133 ] and that such independence continued ‘unto this day’ (2 Kings viii.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

AN UPHEAVAL M ASHENKA PAVLETSKY , a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Passionately jealous, she rashly made a scene in the home of Jules Desmarets, her lover's son-in-law.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Tourville, the greatest of Louis XIV.'s admirals, was forced thus to risk the whole French navy against his own judgment; and a century later a great French fleet escaped from the English admiral Keith, through his obedience to imperative orders from his immediate superior, who was sick in port.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Kipling was writing short stories; Barrie, Stevenson, Frank-Harris; Max Beerbohm wrote at least one perfect one, "The Happy Hypocrite"; Henry James pursued his wonderful and inimitable bent; and among other names that occur to me, like a mixed handful of jewels drawn from a bag, are George Street, Morley Roberts, George Gissing, Ella d'Arcy, Murray Gilchrist, E. Nesbit, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Edwin Pugh, Jerome K. Jerome, Kenneth Graham, Arthur Morrison, Marriott Watson, George Moore, Grant Allen, George Egerton, Henry Harland, Pett Ridge, W. W. Jacobs (who alone seems inexhaustible).
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is true that the political wisdom of nations does not improvise itself, nor reveal itself all at once in its fulness, as Minerva of old sprang from the head of Jupiter, clad in complete armour, but that it develops itself during their historic progress amidst vicissitude, and by turning to profit the lessons of trial and experience.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

Of course these letters are on an altogether different plane from the little batch of about two hundred, which are all we have of Jane’s.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

"I wish you could have heard old Janus's account of his effort to clean the knives to suit her.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

He is the hardest man to secure I ever started out to gain, but I've gone for him on just the right tack.
— from Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist; Or, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field by Old Sleuth

I was so occupied in inspecting the house of Joanna Correa, that at first I paid little attention to that lady herself.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

"A critical history of Japan remains to be written ...
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It is best usually to leave her to form her own judgment, and especially not to advocate the side you wish her to favour; if you do, she is sure to lean in the opposite direction, and ten to one will argue herself into non-compliance.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

" 2:7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry?
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

" He also instituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero's appointment, celebrated the Olympian games to the honor of Jupiter, so, by his institution, they should celebrate the Isthmian to the honor of Neptune.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch