There were about forty people in the room, and perhaps three times as many in the great courtyard below.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In the remote and primitive parish of Defynog, in Breconshire, until a few years since, a custom survived of carrying the King of Summer and the King of Winter.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

There can, at any rate, be a true philosophy, but there can be no true religion: I mean true in the real and proper understanding of the word, not merely in that flowery and allegorical sense which you have described, a sense in which every religion would be true only in different degrees.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The gift is, to receive a prophet, to receive a righteous man, to give a cup of cold water to a disciple: but the fruit, to do this in the name of a prophet, in the name of a righteous man, in the name of a disciple.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the room, addressed Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As they passed along the railings of Trinity College, Lenehan skipped out into the road and peered up at the clock.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

This important piece of intelligence he communicated to the Count at his return, and measures were immediately taken to defeat the design, and make an example of the authors, who being permitted to load themselves with the booty, were apprehended in their retreat, and punished with death according to their demerits.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The bell rang, before he had been a minute in the room, and Penelope was sent to tell Miss Rachel that Mr. Franklin Blake wanted to speak to her.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Their duty is to run after people whom they see and to beat them with a long stick.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

As if to remove any possible doubt on this head, we find that in two cases these slain men are brought into direct connexion with May-trees, which are the impersonal, as the May King, Grass King, and so forth, are the personal representatives of the tree-spirit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Papa himself, though his heart beat high to think of his own beautiful children blooming in this retired and pleasant place, wept a kindly tear for his old aunt, as he stood in the chamber of her long occupation, and found how empty and mournful was this well-known room.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

They adorned themselves with tin stars, which they cut out of pieces of the sheets of metal in the ruins, and pieces of tin with stars cut out of them are now turning up continually, to the surprise of the Pittsburgh workmen who are endeavoring to get the town in shape.
— from The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

It is too rank and pungent for the modern taste; it soon cloys upon the palate.
— from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers by John Burroughs

Molly Culpepper came into the room, and paused a moment on the threshold as one afraid to interrupt a sleeper.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

It is always the code of morals imposed from without that does mischief, and results in the repressions and perversions about which modern psychology has taught us so much.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

To say, in excuse, that gratitude is never to enter into the motives of national conduct, is to revive a principle which has been buried for centuries with its kindred principles of the lawfulness of assassination, poison, perjury, etc.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

She is too rich and proud to entertain fraternal sentiments for me."
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

After taking leave of my wife, which we could hardly do kindly Agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under) All may see how slippery places all courtiers stand in All made much worse in their report among people than they are All the fleas came to him and not to me Aptness
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Examining the Records of the Pennsylvania Soldiers of the Revolution, I found several John Leacocks in the ranks as privates, and also one John Laycock.
— from The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant by John Leacock