Maggie's power of sacrifice did not extend so far; indeed, I fear she cared less that Tom should enjoy the utmost possible amount of puff, than that he should be pleased with her for giving him the best bit.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This sum enabled the unfortunate poet to return to Angouleme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Whilst they prefer traditions before Scriptures; those Evangelical Councils, poverty, obedience, vows, alms, fasting, supererogations, before God's Commandments; their own ordinances instead of his precepts, and keep them in ignorance, blindness, they have brought the common people into such a case by their cunning conveyances, strict discipline, and servile education, that upon pain of damnation they dare not break the least ceremony, tradition, edict; hold it a greater sin to eat a bit of meat in Lent, than kill a man: their consciences are so terrified, that they are ready to despair if a small ceremony be omitted; and will accuse their own father, mother, brother, sister, nearest and dearest friends of heresy, if they do not as they do, will be their chief executioners, and help first to bring a faggot to burn them.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Against this dangerous post Gustavus now directed his attack; five hundred musketeers, supported by a few infantry, (for a greater number could not act in the narrow space,) enjoyed the unenvied privilege of first throwing themselves into the open jaws of death.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 03 by Friedrich Schiller

[160] “Carolus civitates Transsequanas ab incolis firmari rogavit, Cinomannis scilicet et Turonis, ut præsidio contra Nortmannos populis esse possent.” Annales Bertinianorum , Migne, Pat., 125, 53.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

The sword entered the upper part of the chest and disappeared completely in the general's body where Benedict left it, as he sprang back—as a bull fighter leaves his dagger in the breast of the bull.
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

A pose is a position studied for artistic effect, or considered with reference to such effect; the unconscious posture of a spectator or listener may be an admirable pose from an artist's standpoint.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

[Pg 490] cared less that Tom should enjoy the utmost possible amount of puff, than that he should be pleased with her for giving him the best bit.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

“You see even this unhappy poet had his solace.
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

I hastily stripped a black frock of its trimming, dressed my hair more simply even than usual, parted down the middle, and altogether strove to achieve the air of a femme de chambre born, not made.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson