After drinking tea at the same well-to-do peasant’s with whom Levin had stayed on the way to Sviazhsky’s, and chatting with the women about their children, and with the old man about Count Vronsky, whom the latter praised very highly, Darya Alexandrovna, at ten o’clock, went on again.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

7 With a love of economy, which shows how similar the world has always been in its treatment of literary men, the pension was denied, and the poet vented his disappointment in a wish that Cumoea might never produce a poet capable of giving it renown and glory.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Evadne, once the idol of Adrian's affections; and who, for the sake of her present visitor, had disdained the noble youth, and then, neglected by him she loved, with crushed hopes and a stinging sense of misery, had returned to her native Greece.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But force prevailed [Pg 8] more than the father's will or the respect due to seniority: for Amulius, having expelled his brother, seizes the kingdom; he adds crime to crime, murders his brother's male issue; and under pretence of doing his brother's daughter, Rhea Sylvia, honour, having made her a vestal virgin, by obliging her to perpetual virginity he deprives her of all hopes of issue.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In the Canon of the Mass he introduced two changes, viz.: (1) he inserted the words here quoted; (2) he altered the position of the Lord's Prayer ( v. Homes Dudden, pp. 264-271).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

As Antioch in Pisidia would on this hypothesis be the farthest church in ‘Galatia and Phrygia’ which St Paul visited, his direct route from that city to Ephesus (Acts xviii.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Well, thank heaven for one good laugh today," or else, in more passionate vein, "Hot dog!
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

With a love of economy, which shows how similar the world has always been in its treatment of literary men, the pension was denied, and the poet vented his disappointment in a wish that Cumae might never produce a poet capable of giving it renown and glory.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Before his eyes the purple vest he drew, Industrious to conceal the falling dew; But when the music paused, he ceased to shed The flowing tear, and raised his drooping head; And, lifting to the gods a goblet crown'd, He pour'd a pure libation to the ground.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The previous verses have dealt with the theological tenets of the false teachers.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

'In the city of Londonderry alone, which Presbyterian valour had defended, ten out of twelve aldermen, and twenty out of twenty-four burgesses, were thrust out of the corporation by that act, which placed an odious mark of infamy upon at least one-half the inhabitants of the kingdom.' Presbyterians could not legally keep a common school.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

The life of the neighborhood has been made more attractive, especially for the young people, while some of the forms of petty vice have disappeared.
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

The members practised very hard, day after day, and evening after evening, with closed doors, until we became quite artists.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

This personage was related to Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate for Scotland, and was enraptured with the Penny Chap-Book: so much so that she embodied it in her “Remarks and Illustrations of the World of Spirits,” which she strictly enjoined her Nephew to print after [Pg viii] her decease.
— from The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by William Ogilvie

As her head touched the green earth, she saw the little maiden seat herself on the log, and turning her face sideways, say in her pleasant, piping voice,— “How-de-do, Dod?”
— from Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

The three-pronged fork, therefore, the only implement of husbandry that can penetrate such a soil as this, has entered here; and I am sorry, for the primitive vegetation has disappeared.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

A Whig nobleman, of great experience and calm judgment, told me that if Princess Victoria had died before William IV., and thereby Ernest Duke of Cumberland had succeeded to the Throne, no earthly power could have averted a revolution.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell