She consulted a Russian priest as to the possibility of divorce and remarriage during a husband’s lifetime, and the priest told her that it was impossible, and to her delight showed her a text in the Gospel which (as it seemed to him) plainly forbids remarriage while the husband is alive.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Such crimination and recrimination, protestation, asseveration, assurances, backed by divine and saintly invocations! Pupasse accused companion after companion of filching her sins, which each after each would violently deny, producing each her own list from her own pocket,—proof to conviction of innocence, and, we may say, of guilt also.
— from Balcony Stories by Grace Elizabeth King

He had been prepared for a police state, tight security controls, a repressed populace, and a growing air of unrest.
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

The sugar camps are rather permanent affairs, and the framework of the boiling house with its upright poles around the fire place to hold the kettles is left intact.
— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

Soon after we got in from Cape Crozier he heard that Scott was going over to the Western Mountains: somehow or other he persuaded Scott to take him, and they started with Seaman Evans and Simpson on September 15 on what Scott calls "a remarkably pleasant and instructive little spring journey,"
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The character of a metropolis was upheld by a splendid Court, a resident Parliament, a great and titled aristocracy.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

The Greek land as a whole, especially the Attic, was only moderately fertile, and therefore not so cheaply and redundantly populated as Egypt.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The guests went off as they best might, each to his separate crib and resting place, and in a short time the mansion, which was of late so noisy, was hushed into perfect silence.
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

The Puritans felt the stress of this process, and endeavoured to meet it by buying up the appropriations of livings, and securing through feoffees a succession of Protestant ministers in the parishes of which they were patrons: but in 1633 Laud cited the feoffees into the Star Chamber, and roughly put an end to them.
— from History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green