Of the fifth act, the only thing noticeable, (for rant and nonsense, though abundant as ever, have long before the last act become things of course,) is the profane representation of the high altar in a chapel, with all the vessels and other preparations for the holy sacrament.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even while engaged in the War for Independence, the American frontiersman crossed the Appalachians and secured Kentucky and the Northwest Territory, and with them the richest and most productive regions of the Temperate Zone,—the Mississippi Valley.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The United States army in Korea in 1950-53 was one of the most revolutionary armies in history, an army dedicated to non-victory, pledging allegiance to a shadowy world government of the United Nations behind the practical reality of the government of the United States.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

This, although not literally contradictory, is in spirit irreconcilable with the perfect revolution of twenty-four hours.
— from Timaeus by Plato

After dinner he and I to the Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the Charles, who came to see me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The countess was pleased with Natásha’s zeal; after the poor results of the medical treatment, in the depths of her heart she hoped that prayer might help her daughter more than medicines and, though not without fear and concealing it from the doctor, she agreed to Natásha’s wish and entrusted her to Belóva.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Perhaps some recent and imperfect converts of the Gnostic tribe might crown the statues of Christ and St. Paul with the profane honors which they paid to those of Aristotle and Pythagoras; but the public religion of the Catholics was uniformly simple and spiritual; and the first notice of the use of pictures is in the censure of the council of Illiberis, three hundred years after the Christian æra.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He is presently reassured on these subjects by the unchallengeable reality of Mrs. Snagsby, sitting up with her head in a perfect beehive of curl-papers and night-cap, who has dispatched Guster to the police-station with official intelligence of her husband's being made away with, and who within the last two hours has passed through every stage of swooning with the greatest decorum.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

To this the physician replied, "Of those my lord the governor shall not eat so long as I live."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[576] See Hunt’s “Popular Romances of the West of England,” 1871, p. 415; and Brand’s “Pop.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Popular Romances of the West of England ; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall.
— from Chatto & Windus's List of Books, May 1883 by Chatto & Windus (Firm)

The family party round the breakfast table in the pretty Rectory of Thorncroft were discussing the question from various points of view.
— from Lettice by Mrs. Molesworth

She delighted in the rosy reflections of her skin, in her pretty light dress of a pinkish white material, in her broad sash of pink silk fastened behind with a buckle of mother-of-pearl, in her straw hat trimmed with bright pink ribbons on top and yellow-pink velvet on its underbrim.
— from The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub

—In the Print Room of the British Museum there is a very fine copy of this work, probably the first edition.
— from A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention by Joseph Cundall

This great Tibetan Reformer of the fourteenth century, said to be a direct incarnation of Amita Buddha, is the founder of the secret School near Tji-gad-je, attached to the private retreat of the Teshu Lama.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Since he wrote constantly and copiously for his magazine and also published reports of the activities of the churches and evangelists, it gives a good contemporary picture of his mind and of the principles and practices of the Christian churches during the years immediately before the union.
— from An American Religious Movement : A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ by Winfred Ernest Garrison

“I distinguished vaguely an irregular round knob, of wood, perhaps, resting on the rail.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

All one can do is to take every possible precaution. Ran over to Tent Island this afternoon and climbed to the top—I have not been there since 1903.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

It is a lamentable proof of the corrupt state of the American press, on the subject of slavery, that the irritating conduct of the West Indian planters has been passed over in total silence, while every effort has been made to represent the passive resistance of the apprentices as some great "raw-head and bloody-bones story."
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child