Again they kindled the sacred fire; and the priests, assembling round the Agnikunda, [54] prayed for aid to Mahadeo
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Arnold, however, did not comply, for the senators, and some of the principal people, took his part, and resisted the authority of the pope.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But, as it is, the concept of a causality free from empirical conditions, although empty, i.e., without any appropriate intuition), is yet theoretically possible, and refers to an indeterminate object; but in compensation significance is given to it in the moral law and consequently in a practical sense.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose The Army of Glinda the Good looked very grand and imposing when it assembled at daybreak before the palace gates.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

[Pg 11] 7 Romulus chose the Palatine and Remus the Aventine hill as their stands to make their observations.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

For if any stranger, or, by Zeus, any one of her oldest inhabitants wished to go up to Athens, he could either sail or go by road, and if he travelled by land he could, I suppose, take either the broad highways or the paths and roads that are short cuts.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

First of all, premising as his own thought, 'Hardly can a man become truly good'; and then a little further on in the poem, forgetting, and blaming Pittacus and refusing to agree with him, when he says, 'Hardly can a man be good,' which is the very same thing.
— from Protagoras by Plato

Quite astounded at this to them so novel a sight, they quitted the plain and retreated to a rising ground.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Underneath the maple there was a small cart, which had been brought from the wheelwright's to serve as a pulpit, and round this a couple of benches and a few chairs had been placed.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

All these attempts at theory are only to be considered in their analytical part as progress in the province of truth, but in their synthetical part, in their precepts and rules, they are quite unserviceable.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

They fell upon these wandering, bewildered, treasure-laden people and robbed them as readily and as joyously as a husbandman gathers olives in a fat year.
— from The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller

I formed a thousand plans and rejected them again.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Charles Honeyman and Fred Bayham, e.g., are frank caricatures; Helen and Laura Pendennis, and “Stunning” Warrington are somewhat unreal; Colonel Newcome is overdrawn—“the travesty of a man”; and even Beatrix Esmond, whom Mr. Brownell pronounces her creator’s masterpiece, is a “picturesque apparition rather than a real woman.”
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

And we heard a Justice of Peace this morning say to the King, that he had been endeavouring to suppress this tumult, but could not; and that imprisoning some of them in the new prison at Clerkenwell, the rest did come and break open the prison and release them; and that they do give out that they are for pulling down the brothels, which is one of the great grievances of the nation.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

For the rest, he was a very energetic person, always running to and fro between his factories and Paris, where he had three or four addresses.
— from Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France

The remaining letters of the apostles, (and what more original than their letters can we have?) though written without the remotest design of transmitting the history of Christ, or of Christianity, to future ages, or even of making it known to their contemporaries, incidentally disclose to us the following circumstances:—Christ's descent and family; his innocence; the meekness and gentleness of his character (a recognition which goes to the whole Gospel history); his exalted nature; his circumcision; his transfiguration; his life of opposition and suffering; his patience and resignation; the appointment of the Eucharist, and the manner of it; his agony; his confession before Pontius Pilate; his stripes, crucifixion, and burial; his resurrection; his appearance after it, first to Peter, then to the rest of the apostles; his ascension into heaven; and his designation to be the future judge of mankind; the stated residence of the apostles at Jerusalem; the working of miracles by the first preachers of the Gospel, who were also the hearers of Christ;* the successful propagation of the religion; the persecution of its followers; the miraculous conversion of Paul; miracles wrought by himself, and alleged in his controversies with his adversaries, and in letters to the persons amongst whom they were wrought; finally, that MIRACLES were the signs of an apostle.+ _________ * Heb. ii. 3.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abundant supply of guides; besides the ordinary cicerone , who seizes upon you directly you set foot in your hotel, and never quits you while you remain in the city, there is also a special cicerone belonging to each monument—nay, almost to each part of a monument.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Reeve —To pass a rope through a block.
— from On Yacht Sailing A Simple Treatise for Beginners upon the Art of Handling Small Yachts and Boats by Thomas Fleming Day

But he had reason to suspect the demonstrations of friendship by the king of these parts, and refused to attend a festival prepared in his honour.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge