The sentries presented arms to him, one of the most beautiful girls presented arms to him, and became the General's lady, and in time they had a pretty, charming child, that seemed as if it had dropped from heaven, it was so pretty; and the porter's son danced before it in the courtyard, as soon as it could understand it, and gave her all his colored pictures, and little Emily looked at them, and was pleased, and tore them to pieces.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But the edict that was sent into the other parts of the habitable earth was this which follows: "Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus, high priest, tribune of the people, chosen consul the second time, ordains thus: Upon the petition of king Agrippa and king Herod, who are persons very dear to me, that I would grant the same rights and privileges should be preserved to the Jews which are in all the Roman empire, which I have granted to those of Alexandria, I very willingly comply therewith; and this grant I make not only for the sake of the petitioners, but as judging those Jews for whom I have been petitioned worthy of such a favor, on account of their fidelity and friendship to the Romans.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

SYN: Careful, exact, faithful, precise, correct, close, truthful, strict, just, actual, nice.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

‘Tis no wonder if our natural and earthly parts cannot conceive that supernatural and heavenly knowledge: let us bring nothing of our own, but obedience and subjection; for, as it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

THE DUKE (after another pause): Cyrano comes to see you?
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

What may be the amount of the whole expense which the church, either of Berne, or of any other protestant canton, costs the state, I do not pretend to know.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Tweye , num. twain, PP, C, C2; tweie , S; tueie , S; twey , S3, PP; twei , PP. Comb. : twey-fold , twofold, C3.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But before Mr. Pickwick could conclude the sentence, the lady had thrust him into the passage, and locked and bolted the door behind him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

If the management at Drury Lane ever wished to enact a play called "Chaos," the setting for their best scene could not better a night on De Aar platform.
— from On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James

A very able and courteous critic—Mr. Norman Hapgood—writes to me as follows: "I think the history of the Kansas-Nebraska trouble, in which the preliminary conflict centred, the speeches of the time, North and South, the party platforms, all proved that the North said, 'Slavery shall keep its rights and have no further extension,' while the South said, 'It shall go into any newly-acquired territory it chooses.'
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

After the calves were branded, after the German shepherd had with paternal care cured the Silesians of foot-rot—(how different from the demeanour of Australian Corydon puffing at his foul pipe, and double-blanking the sheep, with everybody connected with the place, from the ration-carrier upwards, as he pares the offending hoof)—after these, and divers other engrossing duties, had helped to hurry along the stream of Time, the captain delegated such and the like, permanently, to Mr. J. R. Nowlan, a gentleman who dwelt hard by, constituting him his managing partner.
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

All the great historic confessions of the Protestant churches confess the same truth.
— from The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by G. H. (George Henry) Gerberding

"Cy," Patty Cannon cried, "them slappers, I 'spect, you had hard work to turn with that red eye Owen Daw give you."
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

So an exaltation, a sense of physical capability, came to Santoine; in the dark he was as fit, as capable as any other man—not more capable, for, though he was familiar with the room, the furniture had been moved in the struggle; he had heard the overturning of the chairs.
— from The Blind Man's Eyes by William MacHarg