a deity worshiped as a god, like the Egyptian kings and Roman emperors.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

As a further illustration of the view here advanced, I may remark that if, during an early period of life, when habits of all kinds are readily established, our infants, when pleased, had been accustomed to utter loud peals of laughter (during which the vessels of their eyes are distended) as often and as continuously as they have yielded when distressed to screaming-fits, then it is probable that in after life tears would have been as copiously and as regularly secreted under the one state of mind as under the other.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

And with this, the faithful waiter, who knew and remembered every officer who used the house, and with whom ten years were but as yesterday, led the way up to Dobbin's old room, where stood the great moreen bed, and the shabby carpet, a thought more dingy, and all the old black furniture covered with faded chintz, just as the Major recollected them in his youth.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Of course, Madame Korobotchka answered, reasonably enough: ‘I cannot sell you those souls, seeing that they have departed this world;’ but he replied: ‘No, no!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

(1380--1422) members of Parliament held their appointment by commissions granted by the King, and renewed eaeh session.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

After these horrible preliminaries, a rope was attached to each of the limbs of the criminal, one being bound round each leg from the foot to the knee, and round each arm from the wrist to the elbow.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

SHAKESPEARE The Baron St. Foix, whom anxiety for his friend had kept awake, rose early to enquire the event of the night, when, as he passed the Count's closet, hearing steps within, he knocked at the door, and it was opened by his friend himself.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Khetromani and Reboti enter with water .
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Forward!” “Sire, this Hugh is enamoured of Eve Clavering, daughter of Sir John Clavering of Blythburgh, a cousin of his House, a very beauteous maiden, commonly known as Red Eve, and she in turn is enamoured of and betrothed to him——” Here Queen Philippa suddenly became interested.
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Thereafter, South Korea achieved rapid economic growth with per capita income rising to roughly 20 times the level of North Korea.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

With a fresh sheet of paper he presently brought out the text of a kaimyo, and read,— "En-myo-In, Ho-yo-I-tei-ken-shi, Ho-ni':—'Nun-of-the-Law, Illustrious, Pure-of-heart-and-will, Famed-in-the-Law,— inhabiting the Mansion-of-the-Preaching-of-Wonder.'….
— from In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

The Child King Arthur rose, extended his sceptre with the decisive gesture of a semaphore, and spake: “Each littul knight and lady born Has noble deeds to perform In thee child-world of shivullree, No matter how small his share may be.
— from Penrod by Booth Tarkington

To do her justice, Dinah was choke full of knowledge, and read everything, even medical books, statistics, science, and jurisprudence; for she did not know how to spend her days when she had reviewed her flower-beds and given her orders to the gardener.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The aim of each Greek king and Roman emperor was to leave it more beautiful than he had received it from the hands of his 91 predecessor.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

From the day when Otto the Great was crowned at Rome, the characters of German king and Roman Emperor were united in one person, and it has been shewn how that union tended more and more to become a fusion.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

“It would have been so infinitely much better for so many poor sick creatures if they had known and remembered even that!”
— from Every Girl's Book by George Frank Butler