It was like the former in its magnitude, and texture, and color; and at the corner of every pillar a ring retained it from the top downwards half the depth of the pillars, the other half affording an entrance for the priests, who crept under it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"Do you not agree that the family man, engaged in useful work to maintain his wife and children, thus plays a rewarding role in God's eyes?" "Sir," I had protested in alarm, "you know that my desire in this life is to espouse only the Cosmic Beloved.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Tom was painting and repapering rooms in the hotel.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

She lives in Castle Perilous: a river Runs in three loops about her living-place;
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In bravura passages and roulades, Raaff is indeed a perfect master, and he has such a good and distinct articulation, which is a great charm; and, as I already said, his andantinus and canzonetti are delightful.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A ruling of the postmaster general, recently approved by the interstate commission, increases the weight limits of parcel-post packages, in the first and second zones, from 20 to 50 pounds; admits books to the parcel post, and reduces rates in the other zones materially.
— from Owen Clancy's Happy Trail; Or, The Motor Wizard in California by Burt L. Standish

But the most pleasing and remarkable reflection, is the surprising progress of good-will among men of various denominations, that a ring, worn by a despised and persecuted Nonconformist of a former age, is now highly prized and worn, from respect to his memory, by a dignified clergyman of the Established church.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

So far Fox's penetration reached, and so he boldly denied the major of the proposition; and then, in a puzzle for consistency of popular attachment to good old rights of the Lords and Commons, and his subscription to the pillar at Runnymede, run into the contradiction of admitting the major in shape of recognitions .
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

"De Soto arose, took it respectfully, and presented a ruby ring in return, taking it from his own finger.
— from Elsie in the South by Martha Finley

Before them were all the peaks and ridges, rising in white cones and pillars against the cloudy sky, and the effect was of distance and
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The gown was cut out in a square at the neck; she always dressed for her lonely supper, and she had put a red rose in her hair, in the fashion of her California grandmothers.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Whether the allegory is told in the terms of Gallantry with its perfumed lights, its deliberate artifice and its technique of badinage, or presented in the more high-flying mood of Chivalry with its ready passions and readier rhetoric, it prefigures the subsequent pageant in which the victories might so easily be mistaken for defeats.
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

They left the path and ran right into the brush and woods, from home.
— from The Bark Covered House Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan by William Nowlin

Then the precious liquids had escaped, forming foaming pools and rippling rivulets, in which rare old port mingled with malmsey, and gin with sherry.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon