1 Then Adam said to Eve, "Do you not see these figs and their leaves, with which we covered ourselves when we were stripped of our bright nature?
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

But Athos was standing with his eyes fixed on a black line which bordered the banks of the Tyne and seemed to extend double the length of the camp.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Scarce one-sixth of the lookers-on—as the liveried gentleman with a straight knee and stiff upper-lip keeps up the ninety to a minute down the sunny side of Greenwich-street—know aught of the animal, save that every day he struts up and down at about the same hour.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

In some of the Scotch lodges, there are said to exist documents which describe the actual method pursued.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

He smites the trees, and smites the evil demons, too; While every creature fears before his mighty blow, E'en he that hath not sinned, from this strong god retreats, When smites Parjanya, thundering, those that evil do.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

And he caught up his mighty spear shod with sharp bronze, and went and stood by the threshold, and spake to Eurycleia: 'Dear nurse, have ye honoured our guest in the house with food and couch, or does he lie uncared for, as he may?
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

The General Direction shall oversee and manage the affairs of the Association so that every department shall be carried on in an orderly and efficient manner.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

We need not, however, say more about this bill, since circumstances prevented its being proceeded with; and the history of those which succeeded it is now only worth referring to as showing the extreme difficulty of the task of framing a government on new principles for a dependency of such vast magnitude and importance.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

That which has to be represented as of necessity numerically identical cannot be thought as such through empirical data.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

"They are saying, 'The English dogs have well trained wives who weave such fine cloth,'" he replied.
— from The Red Fox's Son: A Romance of Bharbazonia by Edgar M. (Edgar Meck) Dilley