“Then, that being so, it is another matter, and I have nothing to urge against it,” said Manilov, apparently reassured to the full.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Upon inquiry it appeared that Laura had not been at dinner, excusing herself to Mrs. Dilworthy on the plea of a violent headache; that she made a request to the servants that she might not be disturbed.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

and so, if, as is commonly said, men are raised to the position of gods by reason of very high excellence in Virtue, the state opposed to the Brutish will plainly be of this nature: because as brutes are not virtuous or vicious so neither are gods; but the state of these is something more precious than Virtue, of the former something different in kind from Vice.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

[325] sicians, merchants; and, returning to their native country, would repay in wisdom what was expended in goodness and liberality.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Duncan, brave as he was in the combat, could not, in such a moment of painful suspense, make any reply to the cool and characteristic remark of the scout.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

She knew that her young daughter-in-law (full of respect for her new and noble family, except in such matters as related to the intellect, upon which, having 'got as far' as Harmony and the Greek alphabet, she was specially enlightened) despised Chopin, and fell quite ill when she heard him played.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The decorative molding on the fence of this plane is proper for the period; this is not a reliable guide, however, since similar moldings are retained throughout the century.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

It was not with them as with their comrades in the field, whose every act was perform'd in the presence of those whose duty it was to observe such matters and report them to the world.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

(e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Then he heard a voice crying out, “Oh, Galahad, I cannot tear thee as I would; I see so many angels round thee, that I may not come at thee.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

“You don't wish you were a young man half so much as I do just now,” he remarked, and immediately they were in collision, for the squire made a rush to the bell-rope, and Robert stopped him.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

So the barons raised an army, took London, and at Runnymede, June 15, 1215, compelled John to sign the famous Magna Charta, giving his subjects many additional rights to the use of the climate, and so forth, which they had not known before.
— from Comic History of England by Bill Nye

He, inflamed with anger and indignation, retorted that he also should soon make a report, that the man who had been sent as an incorruptible secretary had converted to his own uses all the money which had been sent out as a donation to the soldiers.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

So much as relates to the march of Sherman's army through parts of the State is here presented: "When Sherman's army came sweeping through Carolina, leaving a broad track of desolation for hundreds of miles, whose steps were accompanied with fire, and sword, and blood, reminding us of the tender mercies of the Duke of Alva, I happened to be at Cash's Depot, six miles from Cheraw.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Not that I have become altogether and solely of the tribe: I still leave them whenever the whim seizes me, and repair to the great cities and thoroughfares of man.
— from The Disowned — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Modern versions of this work contain the following passage: “Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works; a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg