The Syrians, Chaldeans, had as many proper gods of their own invention; see the said Lucian de dea Syria.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She was thinking that if she could have accepted Mrs. Potter's creed, and believed in a shining city above the clouds and the stars, it would have been sweet to hope for reunion with the mother whose face she could not remember, but whose sweetness and beauty her father loved to praise, even now after nineteen years of widowhood.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Of this number, 6,759 were found on the streets in different localities in Manhattan; 8,167 prostitutes were seen and counted in parlor houses, resorts in [Pg 101] tenement apartments, disorderly massage parlors, hotels, saloons, concert halls, and miscellaneous places.
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

Miss —— told me that she considered her a most promising young woman, and had it not been that her manager had already selected her company, she would have been glad to have had her in her own company.
— from Work for Women by George J. Manson

She submissively cooked herself a meagre pottage of bread and water, appeased the cravings of nature, and fell into a sound sleep.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

‘At Mr. Pyei’s comyng home Mr. Maier and Mr. ffryer wer at London, and forasmoch as we dowbtyd of ther spedy comyng home, and Mr. Pye and I wer creadable informyd that it wasse time to be doing among the friers [782] , we went to euery place of them and tok such a vew [783] and stay among them as the tyme wolde permytt.’
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

And during all the thirty-four years which have elapsed since I left his roof, I have always secretly considered him as my principal, standing, stable friend, to whose judgment and kindness I could with most confidence look under any particular difficulty, exigency, or perplexity; so that you may suppose, under these circumstances, in connexion with the thought of having buried the greater part of the friends of my youth—you must suppose that, in attending such a funeral, I must have felt very peculiar sensations; that I was burying a friend indeed: I will not say the nearest and dearest by the ties of nature, for that is not true; but my most valuable, confidential, intellectual, religious, particular friend.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Its village green, bordered with scattered cottages, has a maypole, painted, like a barber’s pole, with vivid bands of red, white, and blue.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It will be noted that some common herbs and medicinal plants are missing; there is, for instance, no Box; it will not live in that climate; and there are many other herbs which this garden held for a short time, but which succumbed under the fierce winter winds from Lake Michigan.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Just as any state can have as many paupers as it cares to pay for, so any body of religionists can have as many dogmas as it chooses to encourage.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

It must be remembered that a work written in former times by some Lama of the New Sect contained a prophetic pronouncement—a pronouncement which was supported by some others—that some centuries hence a mighty prince would make his appearance somewhere to the north of Kashmīr, [498] and would bring the whole world under his sway, and under the domination of the Buḍḍhist faith.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi