The priest consented and went off quickly; knocked at my uncle's door, and was soon let in; and I saw the black cassock disappear within that stronghold of Free Thought.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Kilidje Arslan must uniformly be substituted for Soliman.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She tells me how Smith, of the Duke’s house, hath killed a man upon a quarrel in play; which makes every body sorry, he being a good actor, and, they say, a good man, however this happens.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Let's kiss and make up.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I assure you, women of that kind are most useful.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

Though the apparatus of distribution was early known, block printing having been borrowed from the {134} Chinese after the ninth century, and movable types learned from the Koreans and made use of in the sixteenth century, 1 the Chinese classics were not printed as a body until after the great peace of Genna (1615).
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

In 1768, Anda had addressed to the king a memorial upon the disorders in the Philippines, in which he openly charged the friars with commercialism, neglect of their spiritual duties, oppression of the natives, opposition to the teaching of the Spanish language, and scandalous interference with civil officials and affairs.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

As a matter of fact, we should only be despised, if we were not credited with possessing the power to kill a man under certain circumstances.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No soothing or coaxing proved of any avail, nor did Lily's repentance; for she was sorry now that she had been provoking, and would readily have kissed and made up if Gracie could have been persuaded to do so.
— from Jessie's Parrot by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Come, let's kiss and make up: do, now, do!
— from The Exhibition Drama Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together with Dramatic and Musical Entertainments by George M. (George Melville) Baker

[Sept. 1, 533], that he may repress by his own loyalty the trafficking of knaves, and may use his power for the good of the Republic, bequeathing eternal renown to his posterity.'
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

Never in her life had she known any man upon whom she could not, with her trained self-reliance, set her own metes and bounds.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

it's a mistake: I'm glad of that; so let's kiss and make up.
— from The Exhibition Drama Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together with Dramatic and Musical Entertainments by George M. (George Melville) Baker

But due west, though distant a thousand miles, stretched north and south an almost endless Archipelago, here and there inhabited, but little known; and mostly unfrequented, even by whalemen, who go almost every where.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

When he arose out of his swoon Sir Gawain ran to the king, crying, "O King Arthur, mine uncle, my brothers are slain."
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

He came to pay me his call in Gracechurch Street only yesterday, knowing our kindred, and most unfortunate was it that I was stepped out to the office to speak as to our boxes being duly sent by the Buckingham wain; but he left his ticket, and a message with the servant, ‘Tell my cousin, Mrs. Arden,’ he said, ‘that I much regret not having seen her, and I should have done myself the honour of calling sooner to inquire for her good father, if I had known she was in town.”
— from Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Let speedy posts Summon our petty kings, and muster up Our valorous nations from the north and west.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

I have known a man under an engine, almost literally cooking to death from the steam that was escaping near him, in poignant agony, take on a quiet, peaceful look after a priest had crawled under the engine to give him the last rites of the Church; and though his groans would still escape from him involuntarily, it was mainly words of prayer that came and he was evidently in a very different state of mind from that which governed him but a few moments before when only the physical side of his case was occupying his mind.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh