And in the same way the peculiar royalty of Jocasta, which makes Oedipus at times seem not the King but the Consort of the Queen, brings her near to that class of consecrated queens described in Dr. Frazer's Lectures on the Kingship , who are "honoured as no woman now living on the earth."
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

And he gave in for Evidence, that the Prisoner was looked on as a brisk Hand, ( i. e. as he farther explained it, a stanch Pyrate, a great Rogue) that when the Swallow first appeared in Sight, every one was willing to believe her a Portuguese , because Sugar was very much in Demand, and had made some Jarring and Dissention between the two Companies, (the Fortune ’s People drinking Punch, when the Ranger ’s could not) that Roberts , on Sight of the Swallow , hailed the new Ranger , and bid them right Ship, and get under Sail; there is, says he, Sugar in the Offing, bring it in, that we may have no more Mumbling; ordering at the same Time the Word to be pass’d among the Crew, who would go to their Assistance, and immediately the Boat was full of Men, to transport themselves.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

So home, and by night home, and so to my office, and there set down my journal, with the help of my left eye through my tube, for fourteen days’ past; which is so much, as, I hope, I shall not run in arrear again, but the badness of my eyes do force me to it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But it is not water simply that so much offends, as the slime and noisome smells that accompany such overflowed places, which is but at some few seasons after a flood, and is sufficiently recompensed with sweet smells and aspects in summer, Ver pinget vario gemmantia prata colore , and many other commodities of pleasure and profit; or else may be corrected by the site, if it be somewhat remote from the water, as Lindley,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Call him out to dance, and he shall move no more nimbly than a camel: invite him to any public performance, and by his very looks he shall damp the mirth of all the spectators, and at last be forced, like Cato, to leave the theatre, because he cannot unstarch his gravity, nor put on a more pleasant countenance.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Another mode of adjudicating the sins of the people in vogue in some countries anterior to the custom of shedding blood as an expiation, was that of packing them on the back, head, or horns of some animal by a formal hocus-pocus process, and then driving the animal into a wilderness, or some other place so remote that the brute could not find its way back amongst the people with its cargo of sins.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

For example, to the situation, "strange man or animal, to solitude, black things, dark places, holes and corners, a human corpse," the native and unlearned response is fear.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“And yet they say he wasn’t much of a theologian,” said Mr Cunningham.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

He sat down and, without looking at me, slowly wiped his red face, then took out of his pocket our local paper and read out with deliberate emphasis on each word that a schoolfellow of my own age, the son of the director of the State Bank, had been appointed chief clerk of the Court of the Exchequer.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Another method of accomplishing the same thing is to continue the hot-water-drinking even beyond the two quarts suggested, adding no more than a small pinch of salt to each cup, as previously suggested.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden

For the outside world an inferior member of a theological seminary, he felt himself an historical lever, which was designed to throw an entire people into other religious grooves.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

But when they came to the mouth of Avernus, they sat both of them on the tree.
— from Stories from Virgil by Alfred John Church

Suppose, then, that as we previously examined a variety of instances in which a occurred, and found them to agree in containing A, so we now observe a variety of instances in which a does not occur, and find them agree in not containing A; which establishes, by the Method of Agreement, the same connection between the absence of A and the absence of a , which was before established between their presence.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The fight for honest municipal government in Cincinnati was a mighty one and the story of it is fairly well known, but a few pertinent facts are essential as a background to Mr. Nelson's part in it.
— from Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Warren Crocker Herrick

The trees grew closer and closer together till the branches touched, and finally arched so much overhead as to shut out the view of the sky.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

for so you would kill me, the last and mightiest of all the sisters.
— from The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III. by Friedrich Spielhagen

What's the meaning of all this—Seward, say—tell, Talboys. BULLER.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

" This distinctly teaches that the Scripture was not written by mere men, or at their suggestion, but by men moved upon , prompted, yea indeed, driven by the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
— from The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans