They were shortly after sent down from London to Essex, where they were burnt in one day, John Simpson at Rochford, and John Ardeley at Railey, glorifying God in his beloved Son, and rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

She and Rowden and Jacqueline are coming to Boulant's.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

London , V. D. Some of this author’s novels, such as Rookwood and Jack Sheppard , abound in Cant words, placed in the mouths of the highwaymen.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The principles by which the problem of success is solved are right and justice, honesty and integrity; and just in proportion as a man deviates from these principles he falls short of solving his problem.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A second buffalo, which, properly speaking, should have been slain before [ 154 ] the corpse was burnt, was then sacrificed, and rice and jaggery were distributed among the crowd, which dispersed, leaving behind the youthful widower and his custodians, who, after daybreak, partook of a meal of rice, and returned to their mands; the boy’s mother taking with her the skull and hair to her mand, where it would remain until the celebration of the second funeral.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Hereupon a glorious shouting, a rapping, a jingling, a clattering, and a shouting, with plentiful da capo, pleasanter than a strain of sublimest music in the ears that receive such a tribute for the first time.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

London , V.D. Some of this author’s novels, such as Rookwood and Jack Sheppard, abound in cant words, placed in the mouths of the highwaymen.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

I can see it to this day, that radiant panorama, that wilderness of rich color, that incomparable dissolving-view of harmonious tints, and lithe half-covered forms, and beautiful brown faces, and gracious and graceful gestures and attitudes and movements, free, unstudied, barren of stiffness and restraint, and— Just then, into this dream of fairyland and paradise a grating dissonance was injected.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Implied are such as reason and justice dictate, and which therefore the law presumes, that every man undertakes to perform.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

But before Barnabas could answer, the great, black horse, tired of comparative inaction, began again to snort and rear, and jerk his proud head viciously, whereupon the two ostlers fell to swearing, and the Viscount's bays at the other end of the yard to capering, and the Viscount's small groom to anathematizing, all in a moment.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

Finally he walked alone, having learned his steps, and Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Nights Dream announced that a great poet and dramatist had suddenly appeared in England.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Then when they were all settled and rested and Joseph had to go to his carpenter work, Jesus would do such little things as he could to help him, while Mary was doing her work.
— from The Boyhood of Jesus by Anonymous

Now in the language of the Under-world people the words for "river," and "skin," [Pg 159] (or "covering,") and "China," and "shell," and "rain," and "jelly," are the same.
— from Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by William Elliot Griffis

There was a squeak, a roar, a jumble of shadowy figures and the entire flock of bears came tumbling in our direction.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope