Robert Whittingham (made Knight of the Bath), in the year 1432, purchased the patronage of this church from John Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI., and Edward IV., in the 2nd of his reign, gave it to Richard Lee, then mayor.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And the right guide is useful and good? MENO: Certainly. SOCRATES:
— from Meno by Plato

Therefore since hee permits 90 Within himself unworthie Powers to reign Over free Reason, God in Judgement just Subjects him from without to violent Lords; Who oft as undeservedly enthrall His outward freedom: Tyrannie must be, Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

“My lord,” replied Guitant, “I was observing that we live in troublous times and that to-day’s events are very like those in the days of the Ligue, of which I heard so much in my youth.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The inherent significance of generalization is that it frees a meaning from local restrictions; rather, generalization is meaning so freed; it is meaning emancipated from accidental features so as to be available in new cases.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

In comparing this statement with the results gained in the experiment with the red clover, the difference is at once striking.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

He nodded to them, saying, “It must be rather dull standing on the stairs; I would rather go inside!”
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

On February 18, the Russian Government issued the following official communiqué :— “Eight days have now elapsed since all Russia was shaken with profound indignation against an enemy who suddenly broke off negotiations, and, by a treacherous attack, endeavored to obtain an easy success in a war long desired.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

Half a dozen lambs were chasing each other, frisking round and round the rim, glad in the summer sunshine.
— from Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

In this respect Grace is as bad as Eve, and Eve is as bad as Grace, they say.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

Perhaps you won't but it was, all the same: and I wrote that night: "There is something after all rather good in doing something never done before."
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

It is rarely given in England, for the public who will hasten to hear the "Messiah" are not, as yet, sufficiently advanced in musical education to understand a work of such cultured severity, and on so high a plane of musical expression.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

His front was covered with a double hedgerow, which afforded admirable shelter to his skirmishers, while his artillery were so placed on rising ground in the rear of his position as to sweep the whole country over which his column would advance to the attack.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty