Accordingly, the decree of the parliament of Toulouse condemned only the leading Cagots concerned in this affray to be put to death, and that henceforward and for ever no Cagot was to be permitted to enter the town of Lourdes by any gate but that called Capdet-pourtet: they were only to be allowed to walk under the rain-gutters, and neither to sit, eat, nor drink in the town.
— from An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In my address I specially emphasized neutral duties in time of war and the inhibition upon neutrals to lend money to belligerents pending war as being quite as much an unneutral act as the selling of ships of war and armaments, as had been usually the case in the past when money thus borrowed was used for that very purpose.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

He is described by an English chronicler as ‘jocundus vir et eloquens in Latina lingua et Graeca, solemnis et nominatissimus Doctor in Theologia [1572] .’
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

He was sitting erect now, drinking in the words of Sinclair, as if they were air to a stifling man.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

If he has practised the earlier exercise thoroughly he should experience no difficulty in this matter.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth