The holiest saints will I invite To celebrate thy purposed rite: So shall thy vow, O King, succeed, And from thy cares shalt thou be freed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Whenever she caught him slipping away from the cabin, she whipped him unmercifully, and told him what dreadful things old Mr. d’Arnault would do to him if he ever found him near the Big House.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

It is the intolerance of science for such phenomena as we are studying, her peremptory denial either of their existence or of their significance (except as proofs of man's absolute innate folly), that has set science so apart from the common sympathies of the race.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Attracted by the harmonious sound, Sylvans and Fauns the Cot surround, And curious crowd the Minstrel to behold: The Wood-nymphs haste the spell to prove; Eager They run; They list, they love, And while They hear the strain, forget the Man is old.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Tall columns of dense white smoke ascended from the chimneys, some erect, others leaning a little, some one way, some another.
— from Jonas on a Farm in Winter by Jacob Abbott

2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

That quite as much importance and significance as we have accorded to it was assigned to this visit of the Queen to the Normal National Schools, sufficiently appears from these closing sentences of the Report of the Irish Education Commissioners for 1849:— We cannot conclude our Report for 1849 without alluding with pride and gratitude to the visit with which our Model Schools were honoured on the 7th of August, by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and by her Royal Consort, Prince Albert, accompanied by your Excellency.
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist

ur mountaineers again upon the march, driving before them—with the assistance of half-a-dozen Indians, impressed for the first few days of the journey until the cavallada get accustomed to travel without confusion—a band of four hundred head of mules and horses, themselves mounted on the strongest and fleetest they could select from at least a thousand.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

Brushwood was handy, and having started a fire they cleaned some of the fish and set it to broiling.
— from The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

It has since been given generally to [117] citizens, who, while actively interested in politics, refuse to be bound closely by party ties, considering causes such as free trade, civil service reform, honest money, &c., as more important than party labels or party success.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

He says:— “Again, from the Christian standpoint, we arrive at the same conclusion.
— from The German War by Arthur Conan Doyle