So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

More than a year had passed away since the events recorded in the last chapter.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Well trained in lore of time and place, And search the eastern region; through Groves, woods, and hills thy way pursue.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Secondly, if one person persuade another simoniacally to enter religion, by giving him presents: and this is forbidden in the Decretal (I, qu. ii, cap.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

What we have said about absolute space in our past article shows that even renowned philosophers are liable to such mistakes; for nothing but imagination could have led Balmes, Descartes, and many others, to confound absolute space with the material extension of bodies.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

In 1683, Charles Blount, of Staffordshire, son to Sir Henry Blount, published a short treatise, entitled, Religio Laici , which he inscribed to his "much honoured friend, John Dryden, Esq.;" whom he informed, in the epistle-dedicatory, "I have endeavoured that my discourse should only be a continuance of yours; and that, as you taught men how to believe, so I might instruct them how to live."
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

Mr Jarker did not at once return after the funeral, but parted with his fellow-mourners without a word, after stopping at a public-house honoured by Mr Pawley, and settling the expenses readily over some gin and beer, accompanied by pipes; and, though more than one neighbour declared they saw him enter the door quite late, and come out early next morning, it was certain that he did not go up to his attic, a place which for some time he shunned after dark.
— from Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

He aimed at varying the phraseology, at shunning the eternal repetition 111 of the same words in the same order.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

But hear what Prof. Aughey says: "The Elkhorn river is one of the most beautiful streams of the state.
— from To and Through Nebraska by Frances I. Sims Fulton

"Well?" "Well, Wilson, to overcome an enemy so well prepared and so thoroughly equipped requires the infinite shrewdness of ... of a Herlock Sholmes.
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

Such was the origin of a love that grew from childlike tenderness to manly ardour, and, surviving all the buffetings of an untoward fate, is known to us now and for all time in a record of so much reality and purity, as seems to every right-hearted nature to be equally the story of his personal attachment as the history of a passion that in Florence, six centuries ago, for its mortal put on immortality.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

"You had the cruelty to leave her—" "Peace, Antoinette," said the empress, raising her hand, imploringly.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Nov. 23—Newspapers show disgust over failure of attempts to get football players and spectators to enlist; recruiting is slow in Manchester; War Office is advertising for officers.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various