This will be found when the reader comes to consider the following puzzles, though they are not arranged in strict order of difficulty.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

893 At fourteen years of age he chose rather the monastic than the secular life; which, when he had signified to his father, for his mother was dead, he readily consented to his godly wishes and desires, and advised him to persist in that wholesome purpose.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Cylenius now to Pluto's dreary reign Conveys the dead, a lamentable train!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

[He was a religious little man, in his way: the self-denying and self-sacrificing part of the Catholic religion commanded the homage of his soul.]
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Item Caesar, animô 17 ad dîmicandum parâtus, exercitum suum êdûxit et septem cohortibus 18 praesidiô castrîs relictîs côpiâs triplicî aciê înstrûxit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

SYN: Right, well, rightly, correctly, truly, properly, uprightly, unexceptionably, justly, suitably, appropriately.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

(h) The Virginia regiments constituted Terry's Brigade, Gordon's Division.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The Journal said: "No person can deny that there was a greater amount of talent in the woman's rights convention than has characterized any public gathering in this city during the last ten years, if ever before.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The colonists in such case enjoyed all the rights of Roman citizens, the town in which they lived being founded under the supervision of the Roman magistracy.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The Arab historian, Ibn-Alathir, who chronicles this event, states that its outcome was the desertion of the place by the inhabitants, so that it remained in the ruinous condition to which it had been reduced.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

Over Rudha Coigeach , tower the great peaks round Loch Assynt and Kyle Skou, conspicuous among which is the cone of Suilven, flanked by Queenaig and Canisp.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

HIS PA CATCHES OK—TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE BATH ROOM— RELIGION CAKES THE OLD MAN’S BREAST—THE BAD BOY’S CHUM— DRESSED UP AS A GIRL—THE OLD MAN DELUDED—THE COUPLE START FOR THE COURT HOUSE PARK—HIS MA APPEARS ON THE SCENE—“IF YOU LOVE ME KISS ME”—MA TO THE RESCUE—“I AM DEAD AM I?”
— from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

We are too apt to mould the ancient philosophers into our own forms of thought, but this is just to constitute the progress of development; the difference in times, in culture and in philosophies, depends on whether certain reflections, certain thought determinations, and certain stages in the Notion have come to consciousness, whether a consciousness has been developed to a particular point or not.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In her heart she didn't really care to go, for, after her stint was finished, she was contemplating some new improvisings.
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

"Those are the clerks," explained the Red Cap; "they appear to recognize you."
— from The Red Room by August Strindberg

The 244 roads constructed to facilitate the march of legions, bent on devastating a province, served as means of communication; so did their aqueducts and bridges.
— from A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi