Let 'em try to make a row later, and try to dispute good legal papers.
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

This had more particularly been the case since the house was tenanted by Richard Baldwyn, who having given up the mill at Rough Lee, and taken to wife Bess Whitaker of Goldshaw Booth, had removed with her to Downham, where he now flourished under the special protection of the squire.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

"I did expect, dear Edward," she said, "that you would make a rather larger allowance than that for her.
— from Arundel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

In all this there is a fine contempt for everything but the spiritual aspect of literature; there is an aversion to the mere coquetry and display of morocco and red letters, and the toys which amuse the minds of men.
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

Similar miracles are reported long antecedently to the first promulgation of Christianity, and continued to be performed for centuries after it.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

The younger children devoted themselves to the service of the gods, or married and remained laymen, according to their inclination or the paternal wish; in either case the most honorable and important positions usually fell to their lot.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft