Dr. Pusey was too humble and forbearing to enter any kind of public protest against statements and views so different from his own.
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

And when they brought their several answers, they found by their own confession, that the most part of them had continually, since the last Parliament, frequented the Mass and other services and ceremonies inhibited by her Majesty's laws and injunctions, and that very few of them ever received the Holy Communion, or used such kind of public prayer and service as is presently established by law."
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

Resolute leaders hastily organised bands of peons, and the old story of pronunciamentos, kidnappings of peaceful peasants, attacks, surprises, forced loans, and all the demoralising and disintegrating horrors of civil war were repeated.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

The little steamer Victoria, which belonged to the Company, [Pg 41] was kept plying along the coast, carrying barrels of pork and potatoes, kegs of powder, pickaxes and spades and shovels, and all the implements of labor.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

In the mysterious rite of "walking out" going to church together forms an important factor; it is the outward and visible sign of "keeping company;" it is the inevitable step to being "asked in church," a kind of probationary period, a sort of trial trip.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

Later on, even the people of Delagoa Bay sent a handsome Christmas hamper to every blockhouse between the frontier and Barberton, while at the same time the King of Portugal presented a superb white buck, wearing a suitably inscribed silver collar, to the Cornwalls who were doing garrison duty at Koomati Poort.
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

There we paused only for my friend to stock the car with some kind of picnic paraphernalia, and so started again, as it happened, by the way we had come.
— from Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton