For if they assert that in their republic the Romans did not serve unclean spirits, but good and holy gods, must we therefore again reply to this evasion, though already we have said enough, and more than enough, to expose it?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Under his instructions my understanding acquired more strength and justness than generally falls to the lot of my sex: The ability of my Preceptor being aided by natural curiosity, I not only made a considerable progress in sciences universally studied, but in others, revealed but to few, and lying under censure from the blindness of superstition.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

A second usher should be either a brother of the groom or a near relative who would be able to recognize the family and close friends of the groom.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Social Unrest Second, because it is an age of democracy, it is an age of popular education, of religious tolerance, of growing brotherhood, and of profound social unrest.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

292/3 Shadwell v. Shadwell, ubi supra; Burr v. Wilcox, 13 Allen, 269, 272, 273.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And such knights were put about Arthur as Sir Baudwin of Britain, Sir Kay, Sir Ulfius, Sir Brastias.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Sometimes two fires were set up side by side.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"Is the Maharaja a thief, or a robber," the Bara Rani flared up, "that he should be set upon so by the police?
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards.
— from Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll

He stole up softly behind her, and whispered something in her ear.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To show that Falstaff’s freedom of soul was in part illusory, and that the realities of life refused to be conjured away by his humour—this was what we might expect from Shakespeare’s unfailing sanity, but it was surely no achievement beyond the power of lesser men.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

She insisted that a certain cabinet she had seen upstairs should be brought down to the cedar parlour, and that an empty recess should be fitted up for books; and the young men listened to her quite meekly.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The flowers you gave, dear girl, will fade, Nor shun the common lot, to die; The thoughts they spoke, still undecayed, Shall bloom immortal as the sky.
— from Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley

This impatience made it singular that the very next word she uttered should be: "My dearest son, I wish to heaven you'd marry her.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

Such corporation, so formed by such union, shall be called by the name of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company.
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth