All the other parts are of a much later erection, as by the different sort of building, and the several inscriptions still extant round and about the said Church may most evidently appear....
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

Gervase is a man of some note in diplomacy and society; she is proud of him, she is attached to him, she desires to see him ultimately fill all offices of state that the ambition of an Englishman can aspire to; and Xenia Sabaroff is so enormously rich, as well as so unusually handsome.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

She heard presently another distant cannon shot, its solemn echoes rolling all around the horizon, but she paid no heed to it.
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

And surely, if sinners ever required absolution, some of those who must have knelt here had need to ask it.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

The modernist view, the view of a sympathetic rationalism, revokes the whole Jewish tradition on which Christianity is grafted; it takes the seriousness out of religion; it sweetens the pang of sin, which becomes misfortune; it removes the urgency of salvation; it steals empirical reality away from the last judgment, from hell, and from heaven; it steals historical reality away from the Christ of religious tradition and personal devotion.
— from Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana

This street is so eminently respectable and quiet."
— from Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Lela Horn Richards

In this state it seems ever restless and uneasy.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes