Among the indifferent firelocks are seen tourney-lances; the princely helm and hauberk glittering amid ill-hatted heads,—as in a time when all times and their possessions are suddenly sent jumbling!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

His name is written in the book kept for the purpose and signed by both proposer and seconder: Smartlington, James Proposer: Donald Lovejoy Seconder: Clubwin Doe Nothing more is done until the name is posted—meaning that it appears among a list of names put up on the bulletin-board in the club house.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

There was a crowd round the market reading a large bill fixed to one of the posts, and she saw Justin, who was climbing on to a stone and tearing down the bill.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

| If we follow Nature as our guide, we shall never go astray, but we shall be pursuing that which is in its nature clear-sighted and penetrating (Wisdom), that which is adapted to promote and strengthen society (Justice), and that which is strong and courageous (Fortitude).
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Up, and to the office, and before the office did speak with my Lord Brouncker, and there did get his ready assent to T. Hater’s having of Mr. Turner’s place, and so Sir J. Minnes’s also: but when we come to sit down at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and tells me that James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the Storekeeper’s place of Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the Board, though, upon discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move hard for our Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to seniority and merit.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, July, 1909.
— from Euthenics, the science of controllable environment A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

I detest nicknames; but these people all seemed so jolly, and on such good terms with each other, that I felt a sort of warming to them.
— from Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

And especially in this case, where a considerable Body of Christians judge such things required to be unlawful conditions of Communion, what justice or reason is there, that the party accused should sit judge in his own cause?
— from The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism by R. H.

He was not even pale, as she saw, just the same firm, calm soul she had always known him to be.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

They will hear nothing of the spiritualised Johannine Christ, and refuse to acknowledge even to themselves that they have only deposed Him in order to put in His place a spiritualised Synoptic Jesus Christ, that is, a man who claimed to be the Messiah, but in a spiritual sense.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

Several short jackets, also lined with fur, were also included in Her Majesty's present, and several sleeveless jackets went to complete the lot.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

While he was thus mentally engaged in drilling oil-wells, composing poetry, and selling shoes, Jimmy Fallows was contemplating with fascinated wonder an object that floated from his coat pocket.
— from Mr. Opp by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice