For formerly they openly took part in religious ceremonies.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Instead of making the bed, she would amuse herself with pulling off the pillowcases, butting her woolly head among the pillows, till it would sometimes be grotesquely ornamented with feathers sticking out in various directions; she would climb the posts, and hang head downward from the tops; flourish the sheets and spreads all over the apartment; dress the bolster up in Miss Ophelia’s night-clothes, and enact various performances with that,—singing and whistling, and making grimaces at herself in the looking-glass; in short, as Miss Ophelia phrased it, “raising Cain” generally.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Sir," said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply interested in Mr. Fogg's project, "I really commiserate you.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Providence is really cruel not to let sub-prefects have a peep at the future.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Ug musalíbu, tabúnig plastik ang mga písa, If rain comes in the window, cover the spare parts with a plastic sheet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To which the Pawang immediately replied:— “Chop the young bamboo-shoots as fine as you can, If you wish to stupefy the fish in the main stream.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But as this is the manner in which other philosophers have argued on the same subject, I will take no further notice of it at present; I rather choose to proceed to what is properly your own.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For whether or no this is that art of rhetoric which Gorgias practises I really cannot tell:—from what he was just now saying, nothing appeared of what he thought of his art, but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of a not very creditable whole.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Blood could be disregarded, if only the political ideal remained constant and progress was sustained, the laws being modified only to preserve their spirit.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Jews and various other Occidentals awaited emancipation from the Roman rule there, no less impatiently than the Hellenes beyond the Euphrates awaited relief from the Parthian; in Rome civil war was at the door; an attack at this particular place and time was a grave peril.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

—The percentage yield of finished pulp obtained from the raw material is determined from the figures arrived at in the experiment described, and the weight of raw material necessary to produce one ton of bleached pulp is readily calculated.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

The characters technically known by printers as references are the following, which are used in the order here given:— Asterisk * Dagger † Double Dagger ‡ Section § Parallel ∥ Paragraph ¶ In Roman church-books, the Asterisk divides each verse of a psalm into two parts, and marks the place where the responses begin: this in the Book of Common Prayer is denoted by a colon placed between the two parts of each verse.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Regularly [8] ordered movements, often accompanied by gesture, could well have a place in religious ceremony, as the gods and their relations to mankind were then conceived; and moreover, at a time when music was in a crude state, rhythmic evolutions and expressive gestures, refined and moderated by the exquisite sense of proportion native to the Greek mind, undoubtedly had a solemnizing effect upon the participants and beholders not unlike that of music in modern Christian worship.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

But, as we have been convinced that nothing short of his redeeming power, inwardly revealed, can set the soul free from the thraldom of sin, by this power alone we believe salvation to be effected.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

So general, indeed, was the terror that she excited that when, in May, 1430, it was proposed to send Henry VI. to Paris for coronation, both captains and soldiers in the levies appointed for his escort deserted and lay in hiding; and when, in December, after Joan lay a prisoner in Rouen Castle and the voyage was performed, the same trouble was experienced, requiring another proclamation to the sheriffs for the arrest of those who were daily deserting, to the great peril of the royal person and of the kingdom of France.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

“I would rather put it,” remarked Casanova as they approached the house, “that summonses, growing ever more urgent, have been reaching me for a considerable while.
— from Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler