In September 1875, during excavations in the church choir, abbot F. Baudry found part of the foundations of the 6th-century oratory and several shell limestone sarcophagi: the sarcophagi of St. Pair and St. Scubilion and, nearby, those of St. Senier and St. Aroaste.
— from Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Marie Lebert

How is it possible for young princes to read the historical plays of the punning and smutty Shakspeare, and not think, that to be drunkards, blackguards, the companions of debauchees and robbers, is the suitable beginning of a glorious reign?
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

A good many times I deliberately close my eyes to what people are saying, so as not to understand things they don’t mean me to know.
— from Making the Nine by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

The men were cautioned to preserve a strict silence, and not to fire a shot till orders were given; they observed these injunctions, and with fixed bayonets and cautious tread advanced along the field.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

The existences which perish are so small as not to be worth the counting; and this man's being was even less, for all that was not contemptible was noxious.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Draw now a curved surface (an infinitely thin sheet of perfectly extensible india-rubber if you please to think of it so) bordered by the four edges of our curvilineal parallelogram, and so shaped as not to cut any of the substance of any molecule of the assemblage.
— from The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal by Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron

Then the family physician, (so to speak,) "put down his foot" with professional authority so stern as not to be contested or withstood.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

It must be admitted, too, that she even now shrank from the shock of surprise that would inevitably be caused by her openly taking for husband such a mere youth of no position as Swithin still appeared, notwithstanding that in years he was by this time within a trifle of one-and-twenty.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

I had my lunch at the Pacific Union Club, corner of Post and Stockton Streets, and noted that building was damaged but very little; only some few pieces of plastering fell.
— from San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906 by James B. (James Burgess) Stetson

Nice pieces of meat, good curry powder, and strong stock, are necessary to make this soup good.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton