It is, of course, frequently asserted that the English pre-Reformation church did not recognise, or at least did not inculcate, this necessary difference, and consequently tolerated, even if it did not suggest, gross errors in this matter.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Moved into line next day, and confronted the enemy in his works at Resaca.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

Hers was the thankless task of telling her sisters what they must and must not do, and curbing the extravagance that would break out now and then in spots.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed

When, although you do not know me a month, you take my word that I will not do a certain thing, even if I live twenty years after you die.' He looked at her in amazement. 'Break your promise to me, love!
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

Tradition reporteth that the wrath of William the Conqueror was a thing fearful to behold; that the rage of the Red King was a consuming fire; and that the slower and stiller but deeper hate of Henry the Beauclerc was like unto the grim visage of death; yet do I doubt whether the wrath of all these three preceding kings, if put all together, could be so dreadful as that which the choleric daughter of the Beauclerc did now display: and certes the extreme passion of rage in a woman, even when she hath not
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

In their relation to this body, the emperors were only first among their peers, the members of this order being really their equals; a relation which, with the exception of Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus, the emperors during the first two centuries, more or less earnestly endeavored to maintain.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

Not a very outrageous demand surely; and if we scan the material grievances complained against—establishment of numerous dovecots, and claims to exclusive rights of fishing, for example—we see that they are essentially the grievances which the religious houses had originated.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

Miss Newt, you really have no idea—I am sure you have no idea—you can not have any idea of the ardor with which for a long, long time I have—” “Mr. Wetherley,” said Fanny Newt, darker and cooler than ever, “it is useless to prolong this conversation.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

It was on Wednesday, November 1st, that, accompanied by Miss Clark (now Dr. Annie Clark), they entered Switzerland, a white world, as it chanced, for snow had already fallen.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers