16, 52, probably a royal chapel or room in Ekur especially provided for the king.
— from Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon

Peps would always lie behind me in the armchair while I was working, and Papo, after repeatedly calling out 'Richard' in vain, would often come fluttering into my study if I stayed away from the sitting-room too long.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

Maryland, which was immediately prospered with two hundred men of property and rank, chiefly of Roman Catholic faith, started out with a general popular assembly, and soon went over to the representative system.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

And, in proportion as Mr. McCabe's scientific civilization advances—that is, in proportion as religious civilization (or real civilization) decays—the more and more "well trained," the more and more pink, become the people who do dance, and the more and more numerous become the people who don't.
— from Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The physicians, who would not admit of hopes at first, were compelled—against their wills, it seemed—to give Potter a reluctant chance of recovery....
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland

[142] It is, indeed, not too much to say that a theological training tends to prevent a rational comprehension of religion in both its normal and abnormal manifestations.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen