So she was ashamed of her religious ecstasy, and dreaded lest any one should see it.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

et senatores populi Romani super regalibus et aliis dignitatibus urbis, &c., anno 44º senatûs.
— 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

All things then being rightly examined and duly considered as they ought, there is no such cause of so general discontent, 'tis not in the matter itself, but in our mind, as we moderate our passions and esteem of things.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then the King and Queen flew home to their children and cried, "Children, rejoice, eat and drink to your heart's content, we have won the battle!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Could it be proved that the editor of L’Etoile really entertained a doubt, under the circumstances, there would be no need, in his case, of a commission de lunatico inquirendo.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Their chief, Rāvaṇa, enraged and determined on revenge, turns one of his followers into a golden deer, which appears to Sītā.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Burnell and Beryl sat at the table in the middle of the room eating a dish of fried chops and drinking tea out of a brown china teapot.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The weak point in such administrative organization is undoubtedly the relation between the members of the governor's council and their chiefs of staff; but there must be a weak link in any organization which seeks to convert the changing views of public policy, dependent upon an election, into responsible, efficient, and detailed administrative acts.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

These all went to receive each a dole of corn.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

The awakening of this passion, its mighty growth and final triumph, was described in words of ravishing eloquence, and depicted in pictures which seemed drawn, now from the purest heights of ideality, and now from the depths of the pit.
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner

When railway executives and directors become better students of organization, the science of human nature, their stockholders will pay for fewer unnecessary experiments.
— from Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager by Charles De Lano Hine

He had perceived while still a young man (he was now about forty) that all medical practice—as distinct from surgical—is inexact and empirical, that, like English common law, it is based merely on custom, and a narrow range of experience; and he had therefore argued that a wider experience and research, especially among decaying nations, might lead to the discovery of a guiding principle in pathology.
— from Master of His Fate by J. Maclaren (James Maclaren) Cobban

I. The first that I notice is the position, that creatures are now held responsible, even as “deserving God’s wrath and curse, not only in this life, but in that which is to come,” not merely for their own voluntary acts of disobedience, nor for their involuntary exercises, but for the act of a progenitor, performed when they had no existence.
— from Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan

At nightfall, returning to the humble unchanged building which had sufficed for his wants for many a year, he spent the short evening which followed the day of hard exercise in writing business letters, or in posting up station accounts; or else, with military exactitude, he arranged with Mr. Doubletides the 176 ensuing ‘order of the day,’ in which drafting of sheep, shifting of shepherds, mustering of cattle, and bargaining with dealers, took the place of marching and countermarching, sorties and retreats, embassies and diplomatic manœuvrings.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

However, in the spring of 1825, after I had attended a five months' course of lectures in one of the most famous medical colleges of the Northern States, I was regularly examined and duly licensed.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott