Tuppence had received a brief answer to her appeal from Mr. Carter.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The Proscriptions were not however intended to be an encouragement to indiscriminate murder, but rather a barrier against the rage of over-zealous partisans.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“But were there roses enough to oblige her to go twice?” “No; but they were to be put into the spare room to dry; and, unluckily, Fanny forgot to lock the door of the room and bring away the key, so she was obliged to go again.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

She had some extra visits from the housekeeper, and her maid was rather hurried in making up a new dress for her: Sir Thomas gave orders, and Mrs. Norris ran about; but all this gave her no trouble, and as she had foreseen, “there was, in fact, no trouble in the business.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

When I had done this, I began to work my way into the rock, and bringing all the earth and stones that I dug down out through my tent, I laid them up within my fence, in the nature of a terrace, so that it raised the ground within about a foot and a half; and thus I made me a cave, just behind my tent, which served me like a cellar to my house.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

61 He celebrates their politeness and urbanity, their regular government, and orthodox religion; and boldly asserts, that these Barbarians could be distinguished only by their dress and language from the subjects of Rome.
— 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

Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them!
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

True, Bulger had an idea of its beauty, for he testified his happiness at being once more in a warm land by executing some mad capers for my amusement, and by scampering along the shore of the glowing river and barking at the stately fish as they slowly fanned the water with their many colored fins; but I must admit that I longed for the Princess Schneeboule to keep me company.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Then some psalms and collects were read, and a portion of the monastic rule, and briefs announcing the deaths of persons in whom the brethren were interested.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Rocks and brambles and tree-roots behind them, confusedly heaped and tangled; in front, a great space of quiet fields, hemmed by lines of hedges black on the snow, and, far ahead, a glint of the familiar old river, while the wintry sun hung red and low on the horizon.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

San Miguel was not so densely populated as it is now, but very quaint as to its town, and very romantic and beautiful as to its scenery all around.
— from As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables

It is regarded as being already the lord of the East, but it extends its conquests by butting westward over the Tigris into Europe, and southwards to Egypt and Africa, and northwards towards Scythia, with magnificent success.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Upon this subject, they say the majority of professed Christians stumble at the very threshold of revelation; and, by admitting the doctrine of natural religion, natural conscience, natural notices, &c., not founded upon revelation, or derived from it by tradition, they give up the cause of Christianity at once to the infidels, who may justly argue, as Mr. Paine, in fact, does, in his “Age of Reason,” that there is no occasion for any revelation or word of God, if man can discover his nature and perfections from his works alone.
— 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

Traditional morality, religion, and established convention combine to promote not only the extreme of rigid abstinence but also that of reckless license.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

But the key of the engine-house had to be found, and the wretched old thing had to be wheeled out, and the hose attached and righted; and before all this could be done the flame, which seemed to have begun at the back of Raspall's shop, had burst through the shutters, and was already lapping the outer wall.
— from Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them by Thomas Archer

The two ladies and Booth then entered an apartment beset with card- tables, like the rooms at Bath and Tunbridge.
— from Amelia — Volume 3 by Henry Fielding

Selah. 87:4 I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

But if the natural Disposition of the former was to be represented as boisterous, and that of the latter mild and soft, they would both act out of Character, and contradict their Persons.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

Ropes and buoys are thrown from the pier.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

I believe, if God wants to speak to a human soul, livin' or dead, He don't need the help of ropes and boxes and things.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley