A part of this parish church of St. Margaret is now a court, wherein the assizes and sessions be kept, and the court of admiralty is also there kept.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Ah, yes! nothing was of so much importance now as Ethan's fitness to gather in and husband the golden harvest.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

The chief of staff method is not applicable to this phase of the problem, because units have been mixed.
— from Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager by Charles De Lano Hine

A few days after, his Mother was to ride to London , to lay out some Moneys in necessaries; and she being desirous of his Company, caused him to ride before her; they being thus mounted together, put on very handsomly, till being come about half way, he guided the Horse into a Pond; she wondring, asked him his reason; he told her, only to water the Horse; but when the Horse was now in as far, and as deep as he could go, he shewed her another reason, told her another tale, and desired her to give him some money, she replyed, she had none for him; he answered that he knew she had money about her, and therefore he must and would have some; she said she had no more but what she was to lay out, and if she gave him any she must lose her Journey; he cared not for that, but told her, that if she did not give him some Money, he would throw her into the Pond, and thereby enforce her to lose her Journey; and he swore to it, that he would do it.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman

The part played by church and state in this sort of “sacred marriage” is not a worthy one.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

They have likewise crowns; and though the office of herald is not of so much importance now as it was formerly, it is still considered a post of great honour and emolument.
— from The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

The principle of revolution is not annihilated, Page 302 [ 302 ] the nature of social man is not altered, the impetus of knowledge is not weakened, the momentum of public opinion is not broken!
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

He should bring together various bulletins issued by state and national governments which concern food production and conservation, sanitation, public health, nursing, dietetics, etc., and by publishing lists of such material in newspapers and posting them on school bulletin boards, bring the information within them to the people who need it most.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

The sanctuaries of St. Michael in Normandy, and of St. James of Compostella in Spain, were the most frequented.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer