Then the master he took me into the stable under old Norman, the coachman that was then.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

[50] But far more important than such uses of Homeric phraseology is the intensification of emotional coloring by a quotation from Homer at a crisis of poignant feeling.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Persecution pursued Spinoza from the day when he conflicted with Morteira in the synagogue, uttering opinions which were regarded as dire heresy.
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

THE THINGS THAT COUNT Now , dear, it isn’t the bold things, Great deeds of valour and might, That count the most in the summing up of life at the end of the day.
— from Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So, all you got to do this mawnin' is to set up on thet ther sled, an' look purty.
— from Crestlands: A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne

The efforts of some followers of the movement to import a meaning into the stammering utterances of their leaders, and falsely to ascribe to them a sort of programme, do not for a moment withstand criticism, but show themselves to be graphomaniac and delirious twaddle, without the smallest grain of truth or sound reason.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

An attempt to supply a connecting-link between two radically different juridical ideals was made in the setting up of mixed courts for the purpose of dealing with petty cases between natives and foreigners within the settlements of Shanghai.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

The king 134 entered in a few moments, in the simple uniform of the line, and joined the group at the fire, with the most familiar and cordial politeness; each minister presenting his countrymen as occasion offered, certainly with far less ceremony than one sees at most dinner-parties in America.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Since this group was given permission to leave the Soviet Union, there have been from time to time marriages in the Soviet Union of American citizens and Soviet citizens.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

In view of the fact, which we shall later find very significant, that his skill as an artist lay largely in his command over variety of effect (while Haydn’s consisted more in the salient unity of his composition), it is exceedingly interesting to note that, at five years old, Mozart uses so complex a device as shifted rhythm
— from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason