The subject followed; it was in plain, unaffected, gentlemanlike English, such as Mr. Knightley used even to the woman he was in love with, how to be able to ask her to marry him, without attacking the happiness of her father.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

It was no vulgar presence or private product, and though its destiny might be to pass half the time, like Persephone, under ground, it could not really be degraded.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The idea of an International Bureau for Masonic Affairs had already, as we have seen, been started in Switzerland; this was the same idea applied to occult groups, so that all such societies as Rosicrucianism, Theosophy with its various ramifications of Co-Masonry, etc., Hermetic Orders, isolated occultists, and so on, were to be placed under German control.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Helmets and mantlings were of course painted upon grants and upon the Stall plates of the knights of the various orders, but whilst the helmets became weak, of a pattern impossible to wear, and small in size, the mantling became of a stereotyped pattern, and of a design poor and wooden according to our present ideas. Fig.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

And as to the faculties of the mind, (setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born with us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat els,) I find yet a greater equality amongst men, than that of strength.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Pray unto God to strengthen me to the end, as I expect every hour to be freed from this tenement of clay."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Here the poor unhappy gentleman's grief came into my head again, and indeed I could not but shed tears in the reflection upon it, perhaps more than he did himself; but his case lay so heavy upon my mind that I could not prevail with myself, but that I must go out again into the street, and go to the Pie Tavern, resolving to inquire what became of him.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

unfruitful, W. Un-gert , pp. ungirt, G. Un-glad , adj.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Eight thousand troops of the line, being the garrison of Paris, under Gerard, and 30,000 national guards, commanded by Hulin, governor of the city, passed in order through the stately court of the Tuileries, followed by their trains of artillery, their corps of pioneers, and their carriages for baggage and ammunition.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

Once we are in sight of land, if there were any danger, what would prevent us getting into boats and rowing to it?"
— from Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, G. C., Mrs.

“So there will again be tears, outcries, curses, packing up, going abroad, then the continual sickly fear that she will disgrace me with some coxcomb out there, Italian or Russian, refusing a passport, letters, utter loneliness, missing her, and in five years old age, grey hairs.”
— from The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The hotel, too, from what we saw of it, pleased us greatly, and the landlady, like most of the people we have to do with in these parts, was all kindness, obligingness, and good-nature.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

On the other hand, the United States, or some of its people, undoubtedly gave Spain cause for grievance.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

On November 9, 1845, Mr. Layard began to excavate at Nimrud, some distance south of Nineveh, and before the first day's work was done he had the promise, and, in part, the satisfaction of realizing his "visions of palaces under ground."
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society

And so forever and forever we shall need the merit of His death, and we shall rejoice to join in the song of redemption “unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
— from The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark

He had left, he said, a sum of money in his pantaloons-pocket, upon going to bed.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Yes, Lucy, replied Arabella, with great gravity, the worst kind of robbers; robbers who do not prey upon gold and jewels, but, what is infinitely more precious, liberty and honour.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

This defect was completely remedied and a perfect unity given to the design by outlining the forms in a couching stitch, using both colours.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner