For some time, we had been looking daily for a regular excommunication to be published by the patriarch's order against Asaad; but instead of this, a letter arrived from his holiness to-day, brought by his own brother, priest Nicholas, containing his apostolic blessing, inviting him to an interview, and promising him a situation in some office.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady."
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In the morning Snowdrop told them all her story; and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

But I perceive that this tragic observation is out of place here, and so I shall send it to the columns of those newspapers which are filled with advice, warnings against swindling tricks, against unconscientiousness, hints for getting rid of [123] beetles if you have them in the house, recommendations of the celebrated Mr. Princhipi, sworn foe of all beetles in the world, not only Russian but even foreign, such as Prussian cockroaches, and so on.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

The soul of the people had, as Sergey Ivanovitch said, found expression.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A large majority of these emigrants were officers of the army and navy, with their families: a class perfectly unfitted, by their previous habits and standing in society, for contending with the stern realities of emigrant life in the backwoods.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

"Yes, it's a pity," he agreed; "still, it's saved me an 'ell of a lot
— from Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Herbert George Jenkins

If he be chaste, the flame will back descend, And turn him to no pain; but if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart:" on the proof of his iniquity, they proceed to punishment, pinching him, and singing in scorn, "Fye on sinful fantasy!
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

In the former case the skin is pale, there is little or no tenderness, and the hardness is evenly diffused over the whole of the breast; whereas, when gathering has taken place there is a blush of redness on some portion of the breast, which is always painful to the touch, and which will be found to be particularly hard and sore in some one spot.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

He declared that he could not stand praying himself, and so invariably stayed away; but that if it did us any good, we were welcome to it, and ought not to be disturbed.
— from Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger

The Spaniards are said to have employed a few ox teams in this labor, but the heaviest share was performed by the impressed Hopituh, who were driven in gangs by the Spanish soldiers, and any who refused to work were confined in a prison house and starved into submission.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

The best of the humorous tales is “The Female Ward,” which tells of the embarrassments of a rather fast young gentleman in Boston, who receives an unexpected consignment, in the shape of a raw heiress, from a Southern plantation; her confiding parents intrusting her to his guardianship, with a request that he place her at school in some high-toned seminary.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The leading public men belonging to the party in power had all served in some capacity or other with Sylla or under him.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

Thus, HERO is convinced of the utility of our primary mission of mining the rich natural resource which we think history is, and also of refining the ore so as to permit history to serve mankind, as philosophers have always said it should.
— from The Bulletin of the Loudoun County Historical Society, Volume IV, 1965 by Various

The life of the promenade had already settled into seafaring form; the steamer chairs were full, and people were reading or dozing in them with an effect of long habit.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 by William Dean Howells

A little more to the east is "the Rooshian wessel Nicholas I .," in which Peggotty has a special interest so strong that he forgets to mention what her cargo was.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir