Subscriptions were opened, and presently filled, for the purpose of carrying on the cause in behalf of the American captains; and the admiral, whose flag was at that time in the roads, stood neutral.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

As the cavalcade left the court of the monastery, an incident happened somewhat alarming to the Saxons, who, of all people of Europe, were most addicted to a superstitious observance of omens, and to whose opinions can be traced most of those notions upon such subjects, still to be found among our popular antiquities.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"Swasti Sri, worthy of all praise ( opma ), from whose actions credit results; the worshipper of the remover of troubles; the ambrosia of the ocean of the Rajput race
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Pr. Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Often when she went out at playtime and saw a luminous blue sky with changing clouds, it seemed just a fantasy, like a piece of painted scenery.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"What I took to be a trial of my soul was only a preparation for a new and more beautiful fervor of the spirit.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Two extended entities could only correspond in space with one another, part to part,—but not so does the soul, which has no parts, correspond with the body.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In the year of the Hegira 656, the mollah Schadheli went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Her husband passed the shop, went on a pace or two, stopped at the private door, and rang the bell.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

In its emphatic degree it ought at no time to be allowed to become a current mode, imparting its peculiar incisive character to every syllable; though, for especial emphasis, it may be appropriately used in this way in the utterance of the several words of a phrase.
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education

For once sex was on a plane with other subjects, a fact making tremendously for sanity.
— from Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell

Lastly, the fortifications were put in repair, strengthened with outworks, and placed in the best condition for resisting the enemy.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

From the first of his illness she wept over and prayed for him, and taught him, who had gone all his life long a hungry prodigal, the way to his Father's house.
— from Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

A day or two, after Ekkehard's arrival, she worked out a plan, for learning the Latin language, and so it was settled that they should devote one hour each day to the grammar, and another to the reading of Virgil.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

The discipline at this school was of a piece with that of other State colleges, where a certain amount of drilling was demanded, but beyond this the students were allowed to go their own gait.
— from Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

Bolsheviki meetings permeated with the same spirit were organized at Petrograd, Moscow, and other cities.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

Dinner over, the company being composed of the three "boys" and the writer, who among them made short work of a plump turkey and a vigorous inroad on a round of beef, besides disposing of soups, sweets, and sherry—not a bad menu under "Boycotting" rules—we, after seeing that the front door was properly [312] barred, bolted, and chained, and the iron-linked shutters, relics of the Fenian time, made equally secure, adjourned to the kitchen for a smoke, a common practice in this part of Ireland.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker