All with one exception declared that he was killed in the battle at St. Heliers.
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

This refinement was not reduced to practice, but in time the ingenious dilemma was invented that a man who invoked a demon, thinking it to be no sin, was a manifest heretic; if he knew it to be a sin he was not a heretic, but was to be classed with heretics, while to expect a demon to tell the truth is the act of a heretic.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

ie Sampson on military matters; and, conceiving good provisions to be thrown away upon him, they stripped him nearly naked (p. 093) and dismissed him, like the barber in Gil Blas, with a kick in the breech, and sent him in to us in a woful state.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid

The children she kept in the background, as she had done in Scotland, and would not allow them to be spoiled.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone