Vice-President of the United States, close of letter to, 487 , 490 ; how to address, 486 ; how to announce as a guest, 214 ; how to introduce, 487 .
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And lest by the sea-side southwards, where their ships lay at harbour, the enemy should come on land, they made up sundry bulwarks, each somewhat distant from the other, and so bid them farewell, as minding no more to return.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Being invited by Taddeo Bernardi, a very rich and splendid citizen of Luca, to supper, he went to the house and was shown by Taddeo into a chamber hung with silk and paved with fine stones representing flowers and foliage of the most beautiful colouring.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

On Sticoa creek, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia ; 2. on Tuckasegee river at the old Thomas homestead just above the present Whittier, in Swain county, North Carolina; 3. on Stekoa creek of Little Tennessee river, a few miles below the junction of Nantahala, in Graham county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Much, then, of what I have said of difference in the course of this chapter will apply, with a simple change of language, to resemblance as well.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But their servitude could only last till a leader, bold and eloquent, should arise to persuade his countrymen that the same arms which they forged for their masters, might become, in their own hands, the instruments of freedom and victory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The bishop had been driven by in his carriage, the bells had stopped ringing, and the red and green lights in the belfry were one after another extinguished-- there had been an illumination, as it was dedication day--but the people were still coming out, lingering, talking, and standing under the windows.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Before the battle there was a real or assumed equilibrium between the two sides; this is lost, and, therefore, some external assistance is requisite to restore it; every new effort without such external support can only lead to fresh losses.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Greppo, and takes the safer course of leaving to further discoveries, what, in the present state of the researches, may not yet be considered as definitely settled.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Thus, at last, the single county of Louisa then separated him from that county in which was the home of the governor of the State, and where was then convened its legislature,—Patrick Henry himself being present and in obvious direction of all its business.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Elizabeth coloured deep red, and Susan cried out loudly that it was a shame in David; then explained that it was a long long time ago, that Hal and Bessie broke the drawing-room window by playing at ball with little hard apples, and had not told, but when questioned had said, “No;” but indeed they had been so sorry then that she knew they would never do so again.
— from The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It was in 1808, in fact, when he was living in London (at the Courier office, 348, Strand), and in the midst of his second course of lectures, that the intercourse was renewed—or rather it is there that A House of Letters enables us to pick it up.
— from In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Hewlett

The other boys seemed capable of letting the words of the preacher drop off them as water drops off the oily feathers of a water-fowl.
— from The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman

Both Louville and Saint-Aignan clearly saw that all audience was impossible, and that in consequence a longer stay could only lead to disturbances which might embroil the two crowns; so that, at the end of seven or eight days, Louville departed, returning as he came.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The latter, after doing so, cried out loudly that there were four feet of water in the ship.
— from Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty