It is more like old-fashioned rivalry in love than just a bit of rivalry in trade.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Indeed this almost instinctive association of green boughs and all bright, growing things with the joy and beauty of religious life, extends throughout written history.
— from Around the Yule Log by Willis Boyd Allen

But they did steal up on the porch of one bungalow, and they exclaimed like children when they beheld the big living-room, the huge fireplace, the built-in shelves and, beyond the living-room, what seemed to be the dining-room, with an enormous chandelier which may not, perhaps, have been of the delicate reticence of a silver candlestick, but whose jags and blobs of ruby and emerald and purple glass filled their hearts with awe.
— from The Innocents: A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

[pg 043] Why did the ideal Man, the Son of God, submit to the baptism of John, a baptism of repentance?
— from The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman

It occurred to me, with just a bit of relish in the thought, that Miss Kama Holstrom probably was of similar mind in regard to Mr. Keedy.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

Tartarin learned where when he heard the officer of gendarmerie discussing the matter with the concierge of the castle, a fat man in a Greek cap who was jangling a bunch of rusty keys.
— from Tartarin On The Alps by Alphonse Daudet

It is an unique instance, occurring in the reign of Edward IV.: the two chancellors being Thomas Rotheram, Bishop of Lincoln, and John Alcock, Bishop of Rochester.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Who has forgotten how the Apostle in his old age is said to have gone [Pg 191] on a journey to find the young man who had fled from Ephesus and joined a band of robbers; and to have appealed to the fugitive in words which are the pathetic echo of these—"if needs be I would die for thee as He for us?"
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

The scamp joined a band of robbers; and when he left them, he gave out that he was a Polish count; played all manner of tricks; broke out of prison; robbed churches.
— from Told by the Death's Head: A Romantic Tale by Mór Jókai