By the time they had cleared the cart of sheaves and had reached the village at a gallop, darkness had set in and the fire had died down: only the black,-charred corner posts were glowing their last like dying candles, and faintly gleamed the tiles of the stripped fireplace, while a pall cf whitish smoke that resembled a cloud of steam was hanging low over the ruins, wrapping itself about the legs of the peasants who were stamping out the fire, and against the background of the fading glow of sunset it seemed suspended in the air in the shape of fiat, dark shadows.
— from When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

In an age when all opera-houses were, with some truth, regarded as centres of sexual promiscuity, it is indeed remarkable that not the least evidence exists, with one solitary exception, that Handel was ever even alleged to have had an illicit love-affair.
— from Handel by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) Dent

Rulers, politicians, lawyers, doctors, merchants, join the church as a means of securing the respect and confidence of society, and advancing their own worldly interests.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Mrs. Denham was quite disconcerted by not seeing the Roscoes at church on Sunday; and therefore, accompanied by her daughter, she made a call the next day, to ascertain the cause.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

Published by Department of History University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA Page break for ePub [18] A Source-Book of American History Ten years ago had a high school teacher received a copy of such a work as Professor MacDonald’s “Documentary Source-Book of American History” he would have read it with wonder that so many really significant historical documents could be bound together between the covers of one small volume.
— from The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, September, 1909 by Various

She ended the feast by sending the ringers a copy of stirring verses denouncing the Jacobites;— “Disdain the artifice they use To bring in mass and wooden shoes With transubstantiation: Remember James the Second’s reign, When glorious William broke the chain Rome had put on this nation.”
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

The scream was repeated, and after an instant's silence there rose a chorus of shouts and oaths, mingled with the crash of tables and the clink of breaking glass and crockery, as the men in the room fought their way to the door.
— from Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

The value of the vessels of gold and silver, the robes and copes of silk and velvet, the chalices, the altar-pieces, and the shrines enriched with jewels, was inestimable.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

, bears some resemblance to the representation, on canvass, of their persons and features; it serves to restore and collect our scattered thoughts, and revive our affections; and prevents the hand of time from obliterating entirely, their peculiar mental and moral lineaments.
— from A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge by John Breckinridge

To both aunt and uncle she imparted her design of soon revisiting Pescadero, for the purpose of exploring the distant hills, with their dark forests, where the redwood was said to reach a circumference of sixteen feet, which the wise little lady would not believe till her own eyes had proved it.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford