The two women were seated together over the fire in my lady's dressing-room, the gray sky closing in upon the October afternoon, and the black tracery of ivy darkening the casement windows.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But when seals came into use they obviously made the evidence of the charter better, in so far as the seal was more difficult to forge than a stroke of the pen.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Upon the arrest of the Five Members in 1642, five hundred warlike Lawyers marched down to Westminster to express their determination to protect their Sovereign, Charles I. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Charles, who from the beginning of his reign had always {130} encouraged the Benchers and Students to exercise themselves in arms and horsemanship, granted a commission to Edward, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, to raise a regiment of infantry from ‘the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery.’
— from The Inns of Court by Cecil Headlam

Then ensued such a series of screeches and yells as made me tremble for the safety of my scalp and look furtively around for a score of blood-thirsty natives to spring from ambush, but when my fears were somewhat calmed I understood that our guide was merely calling to the boatman across the way.
— from Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 by Almira Stillwell Cole

If the separators are in good condition, a short circuit is unlikely to occur.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

To suppose Christ in us to offer prayer to one of his saints, instead of directly to the Father, is to blaspheme Christ, and utterly misconceive the nature of prayer.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Kolb and David reached Marsac at eight o’clock, and suddenly came in upon the old man as he was finishing his dinner, which, by force of circumstances, came very near bedtime.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac