Then said the Shepherds one to another, Let us here show to the Pilgrims the gates of the Celestial City, if they have skill to look through our perspective glass.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Riding toward Genessaret, they saw two Bedouins, and “we looked to our pistols and loosened them quietly in our shawls,” etc.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But he says all such translations were founded on the faulty Latin translation of Perotti; and none were of any value.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Finally, caste and the limitation of economic opportunity is contrary, if not to our traditions, at least to our political principles.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all his religious duties were performed, he set out his goods to the best advantage, hoping to gain some customers among the passers-by.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Mr. Garrison and other friends had provided us with a large number of letters of introduction, and they had also sent letters to other persons in different parts of the United Kingdom, apprising these people of our coming.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The morning after little Nicholas had left, the old prince donned his full uniform and prepared to visit the commander in chief.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I like those old people, but somehow they all seem to have the “Oh, my” rather bad.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In the middle of the room stood a long table of plain boards placed on trestles, with benches down each side.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

It is not the function of answerers, like that of philosophers, to arrange the order and limits of ideas, for they have to settle what ideas are or are not to exist; nor is it theirs, like the singers, to celebrate the ostensible things of the world, or to seek out imaginative forms, for they are “not followers of beauty, but the august masters of beauty.”
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

" They were climbing the winding road again, leaving the olive pickers behind.
— from Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

A number of expressions chased themselves over Her Ladyship's countenance, while her eyes never left the one point in the coals.
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

So far her improvement was sufficient—and in many other points she came on exceedingly well; for though she could not write sonnets, she brought herself to read them; and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte, of her own composition, she could listen to other people's performance with very little fatigue.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Or, to put the question in the broadest form, is the Roman Catholic's belief not interfered with when there is established a Protestant Church, which asserts that the leading tenets, or practices, of the Romish Church are damnable and idolatrous?
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

The royal couple were followed by the long train of prelates and nobles, and were preceded by the earls of Pembroke and Derby, each bearing aloft a naked sword, the symbol of sovereignty.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Nor is a church to suppose that salvation can be hers while she thinks of any outside with the least touch of Pharisaism, denying their share in Christ.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

This lunatic, in letting Scrooge’s nephew out, had let two other people in.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Her laws there once prevailed, and all her institutions were there established as they are here.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

"Non, je ne comprends pas de plus charmant plaisir Que de voir d'heritiers une troupe affligee Le maintien interdit, et la mine allongee, Lire un long testament ou pales, etonnes On leur laisse un bonsoir avec un pied de nez.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot