Robertson Smith had already noticed this curious influence of sad rites in the Semitic cults: "in evil times," he says, "when men's thoughts were habitually sombre, they betook themselves to the physical excitement of religion as men now take refuge in wine....
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Here in the prison, father, There died this morning of a cruel fever One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head Just of his colour.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The rats and mice no longer dared To show their thievish faces Outside their hiding-places, Thus shunning all pursuit; whereat Our crafty General Cat Contrived to hang himself, as dead, Beside the wall with downward head, Resisting gravitation's laws
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

[3782] be contented then I say, repine and mutter no more, for thou art not poor indeed but in opinion.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

(1) By enlisting in its cause the interest of the German's religious and moral needs: just as the new academicians used scepticism for the same reasons, as a preparation for Platonism ( vide Augustine); just as Pascal even used moral scepticism in order to provoke (to justify) the need of belief; (2) By complicating and entangling it with scholastic flourishes in view of making it more
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Well, sir, I will stifle my just resentment at my nephew’s request.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

The Superintendent finished his examination of the room, and, making nothing of it, asked me who had first discovered the robbery.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But what gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact, that if in a volume of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless, he is sure to select and reprint it in the review; by which, on his own grounds, he wastes as much more paper than the author, as the copies of a fashionable review are more numerous than those of the original book; in some, and those the most prominent instances, as ten thousand to five hundred.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mr. Hodge and Conyngham walked down the street toward the pier where the captain’s gig was waiting, for he was now living openly on board the Revenge and making no secret of his connection with her.
— from With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus Conyngham by James Barnes

Thomson Newark Norwich Oxford, S. R. Augustus Gary Newbliss Kitley Leeds, N. R. John Edgar Newboro’ Crosby, North Leeds, S. R. Thomas Webster Newboyne Bastard Leeds, S. R. James Lytle Newburgh Camden, East Addington Robert Hope Newbury Mosa Middlesex, W. R. Thomas Robinson New Carlisle Cox Bonaventure Matthew Calder Newcastle Clarke Durham, W. R. Hiram Hodges New Dundee Wilmot Waterloo, S. R. A. Moyer New Durham Burford Brant, W. R. E. F. Schooley New Glasgow Lacorne Terrebonne William Furse New Hamburg Wilmot Waterloo, S. R. Andrew Ross Newington Oznabruck Stormont Jacob Baker New Ireland Ireland Megantic Richard C. Porter Newland Gwillimbury, East York, N. R. R. Hunter New Liverpool Lauzon Levi Damase Roberge New Lowell Sunnidale Simcoe, N. R. P. Paton New Market Whitchurch York, N. R. William Roe Newport Brantford Brant, W. R. Lyman Chapin New Richmond New Richmond Bonaventure Richard Brash [35] Newry Elma Perth C. Coulter Newton Brook York York, W. R. M. Richardson Newton Robinson Tecumseth Simcoe, S. R. William Chantler Niagara Niagara Town of Niagara
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

This Sergius was born at Roslow, founded the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Rudosno (sixty Italian miles from Moscow), the richest and most numerous in Muscovy, in which are sometimes two or three hundred monks.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

The possibility of founding a science of moral statistics, and of drawing useful inferences from it, depends mainly on the fact that, as soon as observations are made upon a large number of individuals , the human will retires and manifests no perceptible influence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

‘Ran away, my negro man, Levi.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

In this case, how can the atmosphere of the school be religious; and must not children living in it grow up in ignorance both of the dogmas and practices of religion?
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

Birch tar has a distinctly acid reaction, and must not be kept in iron vessels.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Unfortunately Queen Margaret’s phraseology has been considerably modified, though, on the other hand, the copyist has inserted a large number of different readings, as marginal notes, which render his work of great value.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

"Smooth that indignant brow," the prince replied "And measure not my courage nor my strength With that of Kбъs; had he nerve like mine?
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

“But oh, Ralph,” she said, on the day I bade her adieu, “come back soon to us, my dear boy, for we are getting old now, Ralph, and may not have many years to live.”
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne