In it were mingled the problems of poorly-prepared pupils, an inadequately-equipped plant, the natural politics of bishoprics, and the provincial reactions of a country town loaded with traditions.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

In some other respects the Protagoras rather offers a contrast than a parallel.
— from Gorgias by Plato

When all was clear I followed, and once inside heard how the people in the great courtyard, in spite of police and soldiers, had swarmed up and threatened by their rush, the good-natured, purposeless rush of a crowd, to carry away offerings, altar, choirs and decorations, and, very naturally, those in authority had closed the doors against all new-comers until the people had been got well in hand again.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

With the story of the small boy who stole a pin, repented of and confessed that crime, and then became a good and great man, I was as familiar as if I myself had invented that ingenious and instructive tale; I could lisp the moral numbers of Watts and the didactic hymns of Wesley, and the annual reports of the American Tract Society had already revealed to me the sphere of usefulness in which my grandmother hoped I would ultimately figure with discretion and zeal.
— from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field

At one's feet are the still very perfect ruins of a castle that stood on the frontier of England's possessions in France seven centuries ago, and lower still is [Pg 154] the little town of Le Petit
— from France by Gordon Home

In a very short time the party rode off, and Catherine thoughtfully entered the palace, thinking it was a long time since the king had shown himself so indulgent and gracious towards her.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

So much was this felt, that many did not hesitate to declare the whole affair to have been planned between Albany and Henry; and the feeble public remonstrances of Albany confirmed this belief.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Having followed up this great victory by a series of further minor successes, the army, reinforced by a body of troops from the Bengal Presidency under Colonel Pearse, anew arrived upon the blood-stained 296 plains of Perambaukam, so pregnant with melancholy associations, and which, yet reeking with the gore of the murdered brave, bore memorials of the disaster which had overtaken so many of their comrades but a year previous; stirred by these painful recollections, our army consecrated the spot to avenge thereon the butchery which had so lately bereaved them of their brethren.
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

Stellenbosch is in many ways a perfect reproduction of a country town in Holland.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Thus speaking, Tutmosis placed Ramses on a couch; then he brought an ivory pillow shaped like a crescent, and arranging the prince, placed his head on this pillow.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus