The said synagogue being so suppressed, certain friars got possession thereof; “for in the year 1257,” saith Mathew Paris, “there were seen in London a new order of friars, called De Pœnitentia Jesu , or Fratres de Sacca , because they were apparelled in sackcloth, who had their house in London, near unto Aldersgate without the gate, and had license of Henry III., in the 54th of his reign, to remove from thence to any other place; and in the 56th he gave unto them this Jews’ [249] synagogue; after which time, Elianor the queen, wife to Edward I., took into her protection, and warranted unto the prior and brethren De Penitentia Jesu Christi of London, the said land and building in Colechurch street, in the parish of St. Olave in the Jury, and St. Margaret in Lothbery, by her granted, with consent of Stephen de Fulbourne, under-warden of the Bridge-house, and other brethren of that house, for sixty marks of silver, which they had received of the said prior and brethren of repentance, to the building of the said bridge.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They brought him greetings from his grandfather's house, even from two hens, the only birds of the household; but Rudy was not intimate with them.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Explain it how you may, I felt as if one or both of them had mortally offended me.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

47 The crusaders burst the chain or boom of the harbor; landed their horses, troops, and military engines; and compelled the inhabitants, after a defence of five days, to surrender at discretion: their lives were spared, but the revolt was punished by the pillage of their houses and the demolition of their walls.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Volcanoes were quite numerous in the world's early days, but they're going extinct one by one; the heat inside the earth is growing weaker, the temperature in the globe's lower strata is cooling appreciably every century, and to our globe's detriment, because its heat is its life."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

O. 159; occiput , back of the head , and sinciput , jole ( 478 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

When repeating our catechism at church, nothing could give me greater vexation, on being obliged to hesitate, than to see Miss Lambercier’s countenance express disapprobation and uneasiness.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

the functions assigned to it by a mighty and invisible Power; we can, therefore, form but a faint idea of the impression which it produced upon the spirit of a people whose intellect was still in its infancy, and who believed, with child-like simplicity, that every power of nature was a divinity, which, according as its character was baleful or beneficent, worked for the destruction or benefit of the human race.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The worst of all was our being obliged to hold our conversations when we could; her mother, who become importunate, obliged me to watch for opportunities to do it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We wish to escape from subjection, and a sense of inferiority—and we make self-denying ordinances, we drink water, we eat grass, we refuse the laws, we go to jail: it is all in vain; only by obedience to his genius, only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

The usual offerings being over, the homeward journey of the pilgrims is begun.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Why, I beat my way on a freight train all the way here from New Bedford, and I've been hidin' out back of the house waitin' for you to go to bed, so's I'd dare come in.”
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Quirl carried the body down, laid it prone in the corner he had occupied, snapped on the waistlock, and threw a ragged old blanket over the hairy legs.
— from In the Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl

Our Board of Trade has nothing to do with the food scales of ships, but Mr. Gray hints that the Legislature will have to interfere unless shipowners look to it themselves.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

He seemed to have a high appreciation of the potency of the pen, and a decidedly clear idea that colored men needed to lay hold of many enterprises with resolution, in order to prove themselves qualified to rise equally with other branches of the human family.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

The roads were frightful—gullied with rain, and full of bowlders on the hillsides.
— from A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland

If there were a wall of brass or tower, having no opening, neither above nor beneath, no body could enter but by breaking through, and making a breach into it, but an angel or spirit could storm it without a breach, and pierce through it without any division of it.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

One by one they had taken leave of the mistress of the house, and had withdrawn, and Louise advanced to give her mother the evening kiss and receive the evening benediction—when the mother pointed to a chair and requested her daughter to sit down.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various