The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Richard Whittington, mercer, three times mayor, in the year 1421 began the library of the grey friars in London, to the charge of four hundred pounds: his executors with his goods founded and built Whittington college, with alms houses for thirteen poor men, and divinity lectures to be read there for ever.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

We saw that several of the slabs on which ointments were prepared had evidently been used for sharpening knives, and whetstones are often found of varying degrees of roughness from sandstone to fine argillaceous smooth stones.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

That it did not do so is to be imputed as a fault to the English ministry; but if England was wrong in permitting her European fleet to fall so far below that of the allies, the latter were yet more to blame for their failure to profit by the mistake.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

pulálak, pulálay n = puray (humorous euphemism).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Towards the conclusion of the carnival, a plan had even been formed to make a caricature of the four ministers of the place, and burn them in effigy; but this was prevented by the mayor of Nismes, a protestant.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Mr. Dawson did not pay his evening visit till later than usual.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The police captain, Kirilin, a tall, good-looking man, who in all weathers wore his great-coat over his tunic, with his haughty deportment, stately carriage, and thick, rather hoarse voice, looked like a young provincial chief of police; his expression was mournful and sleepy, as though he had just been waked against his will.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had prepared himself even for the fog that he would breathe in through his open mouth.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

I shall not make any reflection on this story, in the course of which the reader must perceive how egregiously the simplicity and milky disposition of this worthy man had been duped and abused by a set of scoundrels, who were so habituated to falsehood and equivocation, that I verily believed they would have found the utmost difficulty in uttering one syllable of truth, though their lives had depended upon their sincerity.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I could not be so rash or so selfish as to set my private wishes, or my private opinion, in opposition to Dr. Y——‘s advice; but surely, my dear sir, you won’t let one physician, however eminent, send you away from us all, and banish you again from England?
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Tales of a Fashionable Life by Maria Edgeworth

In his financial measures Mr. Pitt had eminent success.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Kundry, meanwhile, had crept away unperceived to a thicket, and, overcome by a deadly weariness, sank down into a deep slumber; for this was the means by which Klingsor the sorcerer called her to perform his evil behests, and struggle as she might, she could not prevail against this fatal sleep.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

A fluttering thing we never see, And only hear When some stern doctor to our side Presses his ear.
— from The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne

So having said, and having seconded his commands by a push on the shoulder of his messenger, which sent him spinning out of the shop as fast as heels could carry him, Bryce Snailsfoot turned to his old acquaintance, and, with that amplification of words and exaggeration of manner, which in Scotland is called “making a phrase,” he ejaculated—“The Lord be gude to us!
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

Ibn-Verga did not conceal the faults of his race; perhaps he exaggerated them.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

By it we are led to share vicariously in past human experience, thus widening and enriching the experience of the present.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The name of the agent between them, Pandarus, has even been adopted into the English language to signify those personages ( panders ) who dedicate themselves to similar services for inexperienced persons of both sexes.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

He lived surrounded by books, and nothing prevented him, even when Prime Minister, and with all the calls on his time to which he was compelled to attend, from reading every new publication of interest or merit, as well as frequently revelling amongst the favourite authors of his early studies.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

Pierre had entered the elementary school of the neighborhood, and by his precocious intelligence and exceptional application, had not been long in getting to the top of his class.
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet