"I don't mind a rash," she announced, "not in such a good cause."
— from Peggy Raymond's Way; Or, Blossom Time at Friendly Terrace by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

The so-called gate at the steepest part of the Capitoline Mount, which is known by the name of Janualis or Saturnia, or the "open," and which had to stand always open in times of war, evidently had merely a religious significance, and never was a real gate.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Mabel came the first, the lively and successful Mabel, two years younger than Lucy—she and Laurence: he was Laurence Corbet, Esq., of Peltry Park, Wavertree, and Roehampton, S.W., a hunting man and retired soldier, as neatly groomed as a man may be.
— from Love and Lucy by Maurice Hewlett

It was the happiest season I have yet had at the Lord’s Table, though my peace and pleasure were not unalloyed; the rest of the day I felt weak in body, but calm in mind, and rather spiritual; at night I spoke to the men on Rev. xxii.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

My wife urged Baigrie to make a rough sketch, and note the tints, that he might paint a picture of it later.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

"And when wilt thou pay me the sum of money?" asked Robert Sadler, anxiously, not liking either his reception or his subsequent treatment at the hands of Sir Thomas's aid.
— from A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger

He made no professions, was extremely modest, and really seemed anxious not to have the experiments tried.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

126 To make a robe sew a number of hides together and line them, simply binding the edge with a straight strip.
— from Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2) by T. J. McConnaughay

They believed in a future state of rewards and punishments; and they disregarded the ceremonies or external forms enjoined in the law of Moses to be observed in the worship of God; holding that the words of that lawgiver were to be understood in a mysterious and recondite sense, and not according to their literal meaning.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

A spacious forehead of pipe-clay whiteness, from which his hair was making annual recession, surmounted a nose of latinostrous projection, eyes of rather the "lack lustre" character, and cheeks of roseate hue, or perhaps more truly, though less poetically, of brick-dust dye; while the toute ensemble received decoration from a set of teeth which seemed as if they had been newly chiselled from the finest block of ivory ever imported from the land of Ophir.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill