Hence we may without undue temerity assume that the King of the Wood at Nemi, though shorn in later times of his glory and fallen on evil days, represented a long line of sacred kings who had once received not only the homage but the adoration of their subjects in return for the manifold blessings which they were supposed to dispense.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Madame de Maufrigneuse, disguised as a man and possessed of a passport, bearing the name of Felix de Vandenesse, succeeded in rescuing from the Court of Assizes the young man who had compromised himself in yielding to the foolish extravagance of his mistress.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Trafford, schooled in rigid fortunes, and formed by struggle, if not by adversity, was ripe for the occasion, and equal to it.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Mrs Durbeyfield's jacket and bonnet were already hanging slily upon a chair by her side, in readiness for this contemplated jaunt, the reason for which the matron deplored more than its necessity.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Accordingly, so soon as the deputies in France had received their definite and somewhat ignominious repulse from Henry III.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

The settlement of the Northwest had been begun under influences which in the end were to separate it radically from the Southwest.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

Shall I run for some brandy, Willis?"
— from Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean by Adrien Paul

The sound is reechoed from the other side.
— from Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Give your wife a regular sum per week, and let it be clearly arranged what expenses she is responsible for.
— from Boys: their Work and Influence by Anonymous

Nevertheless, as a craft capable of giving final shape to metal, it has manifestly an artistic aspect, and, in fact, bronze statuary, a fine art pure and {74} simple, is reproduced from the clay model merely by moulding and casting.
— from Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society

When required for building stones the slag is run from the blast furnace into a semicircular vessel on moving wheels, and having its bottom covered three centimetres deep with sand and coke dust.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

I have some skill in reading faces, and I tell you that a boy with Paul Prescott's open, frank expression is incapable of such a crime.”
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.