[117] Helped by Bishop Æthelwold, Dunstan resumed the never-ending and ever-threatened task of teaching the people and clergy; he endowed monasteries, and like Alfred created new schools and encouraged the translation of pious works.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

He deplored his having yielded to the arguments of the missionary, since they had debarred him from participating in the religious ceremony which had just terminated, its pomp and circumstance having evidently made a deeper impression on his imagination than his conviction.
— from Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor

Une'; whilst everywhere in the richest profusion are carved her emblems, marguerites twining round a palm branch, and the Briquet of Burgundy in the form of a B interlaced with a St. Andrew's cross resting on three stones.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

I did not know how much their presence and conversation had excited me till they were gone, and then reaction commenced.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

She turned her head upon the pillow, and closing her eyes, murmured— "Leave me then—leave me!"
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The principal actor called himself Eglantine Mowbray.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

For the recovery of small Debts under 40 s. without appeal, held at St. Margaret's Hill, by Commissioners chosen under the Act of Parliament, by the different Parishes Coroners' Court To inquire into causes of sudden Death—in Southwark, &c. Quarter Sessions of the Peace Held by the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen, at St. Margaret's Hill, for the Borough of Southwark Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Surry Held at the New Sessions House in Southwark, by the Magistrates of the County of Surry Petty Sessions, or Police Court, established by Act of Parliament A Court held every morning and evening by two Justices, at the Public Office, Union Hall, Union-street, Southwark, for Objects of Police, &c. Prisons in the Metropolis .
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

And even as regards Russia, however irresponsible her system of government, selfish and unscrupulous her foreign policy, and corrupt her executive, may be regarded from an English point of view, still [Pg 3] there can be little question that her assumption of authority over any tract of Asian territory must be considered preferable in the interests of philanthropy and general expediency to its restoration to an intrinsically weak and unpractical Government like that of the Chinese.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various