What made your Speculation come very seasonably amongst us is, that we have now at this Place a Company of Strolers, who are very far from offending in the impertinent Splendor of the Drama.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It is necessary for the good of the country that we should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, rural police, and councillors of state.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Moreover I have liquidated the debts of all those who had incurred them, without inquiring too closely for what purpose they were contracted, though you receive such high pay, and carry off so much booty whenever there is booty to be got after a siege.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Moreover, he who is suitably interested in these things which have already begun to be fulfilled even in this earthly pilgrimage also, does he not apply his mind, and perceive, and acknowledge, that through this woman—whose very name, which is Hannah, means "His grace"—the very Christian religion, the very city of God, whose king and founder is Christ, in fine, the very grace of God, hath thus spoken by the prophetic Spirit, whereby the proud are cut off so that they fall, and the humble are filled so that they rise, which that hymn chiefly celebrates?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And they stood at the entrance, marvelling at the king's courts and the wide gates and columns which rose in ordered lines round the walls; and high up on the palace a coping of stone rested on brazen triglyphs.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Put up that, to begin with.' As he spoke, he pushed a couple of sovereigns across the table to his companion, carefully, as though unwilling that the chinking of money should be heard without.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Their therapeutic application in the prevention and cure of scurvy will be considered in a subsequent chapter.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The champion's fee or reward when he was fighting for his principal and came off successful was heavy—many lands and sixty slaves.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The Orang Kaya Pahlawan, a chief of some local notoriety in recent times, claimed to be invulnerable ( kĕbal ) to the extent that nothing but a silver bullet would hurt him.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

That she was guilty I suppose no one reasonably doubteth, and obnoxious to peace and good government, but, when all is said, there is the pity of slaying a delicate lady in order to the securing ourselves; and such a deed makes quiet a cowardly thing, and puts a colour of shame on justice herself.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

Philip answered casually: "Oh, she's all right, as long as she gets her own way."
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

Rebellion against God is a crime of princes, as well as rebellion against princes a crime of subjects.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

And as Thad once more pushed a couple of shells into the chambers of the little old Marlin he shook his head, observing: "I'd hate to think what would have happened if I'd just missed that ugly customer when I pulled those triggers.
— from The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South by St. George Rathborne

The canvas was taken off the stretcher, turned round, and re-stretched, the back of the picture being used on which to paint a copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Age of Innocence."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 03, March 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Population and Commerce of San Francisco.—Exports.—Manufactures.—Cosmopolitan Spirit of Inhabitants.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

It is not only common to all temperate climates, but it has permeated all classes of society.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

And in his own "Trattato" (Cap. 36) the painter describes himself as living in a fine house, full of beautiful paintings and choice objects, surrounded by musicians and poets.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

Mankind pays an involuntary homage to the pomp and circumstance of such attire.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham