The other, from without, was the spiritual ferment of the age, the multiplication of strange sects,--Quakers, Free-Willers, Ranters, Anabaptists, Millenarians,--and the untempered zeal of all classes, like an engine without a balance wheel, when men were breaking away from authority and setting up their own religious standards.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I rose from my secluded seat under the open, roofed hall, and stepped into the courtyard.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

When he came to the throne, a youth of twenty-one, his inheritance was the prey to a thousand brigand chiefs or local adventurers; the provinces had set up their own rulers; the many factions into which the population was divided had each and all defied the authority of the Sultan; and anarchy and plunder devastated the land.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

The war seemed scarcely to touch them and it might have been one of the senior springs of the past, except for the drilling every other afternoon, yet Amory realized poignantly that this was the last spring under the old regime.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

And the day before the ball, Anfisa’s rival snapped up the only red camellias to be had in the place, from under Platon’s nose, and Platon—wretched man—was done for.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This [ 323 ] probability is further suggested by the fact that some of these uncanny events happened at Elfdale, a name which hints at a region of especial sanctity under the old religion, and also by the statement that the Devil had a church there, a sort of travesty of the village church.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Some doubt appeared to exist in the mind of the gentleman in the green-foil smalls, whether the chairman could be legally appealed to, as ‘Blazes,’ but as the company seemed more disposed to stand upon their own rights than his, the question was not raised.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He was in fact one of the Massachusetts electors chosen by the Republican majority in 1816, and in that most painful hour when there was question of the policy and justice of counting Hayes in for the presidency, it was suggested by some of Lowell’s friends that he should use the original right of the electors under the constitution, and vote for Tilden, whom one vote would have chosen president over Hayes.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

There were also various interesting women in St. Petersburg society, the reception afternoons of two of them being especially attractive: they were, indeed, in the nature of the French salons under the old regime.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

THE OLD TOWER, BEESKOW LAGER Hot coffee— Ersatz —made from acorns, was served at eight o’clock next morning; at nine, to the sound of hammer-blows struck upon the old, red-rusted coulter of a plough swung from a wooden frame, we mustered in the court for roll-call.
— from A Captive at Carlsruhe and Other German Prison Camps by Joseph Lee

“Gather up these articles, then, and show us to our rooms,” said Mr. Berners, pointing to a collection of outer garments and travelling bags that occupied a centre-table.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

It were as reasonable to extinguish a small luminary for announcing a fancied discovery of spots upon the sun, as to demolish me for fancying that I discern a few specks upon the otherwise resplendent disc of the great light of our Lakes.
— from The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone by Alexander Craig Gibson

As they stepped from the shadows upon the open roadway, an Arab stalked from a doorway opposite, 95 and without troubling himself to come nearer addressed Canaris in a strange tongue.
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

By this time Lucy and Betsy were nearly dropping with fatigue, and even Harry, though accustomed to exercise, felt very tired, but the savages still urged them on, regardless of their weary legs.
— from Waihoura, the Maori Girl by William Henry Giles Kingston

"But you were supposed to show us to our rooms," said Tom.
— from The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow

He lights friendly fires on perilous coasts to snare us to our ruin.
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett