In the Bergama rugs the weaver does not disdain to spend some toil and time upon the selvedge; and this, even in small specimens, is commonly four to six inches long, carefully woven in white and colour and with occasional ornamentation.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Many of the ‘progressive’ Chinese, now that it is the fashion for Chinese wives to be seen in public with their husbands, finding the uneducated, gauche , small-footed household drudge unable to compete with the smarter foreign-educated wives of their neighbours, have actually repudiated them and taken unto themselves spouses whom they can exhibit in public without ‘loss of face’!
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Thus he assumed that the words of the required language were always to be found somewhere latent in the words of the given language by those who had the art to uncover them, such art being furnished by the books aforesaid.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Then all took up their sticks, and some played on reed pipes.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The Athenians sailing up close on their heels with nineteen ships found Miletus closed against them, and took up their station at the adjacent island of Lade.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Scotch camp seemed as if at last awakened; the soldiers had come out of their tents and taken up their station in battle array.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It is therefore allowable to use the system of the world of sense as the type of a supersensible system of things, provided I do not transfer to the latter the intuitions, and what depends on them, but merely apply to it the form of law in general (the notion of which occurs even in the commonest use of reason, but cannot be definitely known a priori for any other purpose than the pure practical use of reason); for laws, as such, are so far identical, no matter from what they derive their determining principles.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I can well remember from the days of my boyhood, how, when any Lacedaemonians praised or blamed the Athenians, they used to say to me,—'See, Megillus, how ill or how well,' as the case might be, 'has your state treated us'; and having always had to fight your battles against detractors when I heard you assailed, I became warmly attached to you.
— from Laws by Plato

“I know that I am more learned than all the Universities, those sophists by the grace of God.”
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

He never forgot them as they used to sit together of the summer evenings, the two golden heads over the page, the child's little hand, and the mother's, beating the time with their voices rising and falling in unison.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

She remained behind, attempting to converse with the ladies of Monkbarns, but with the distracted feelings of Macbeth, when compelled to disguise his evil conscience by listening and replying to the observations of the attendant thanes upon the storm of the preceding night, while his whole soul is upon the stretch to listen for the alarm of murder, which he knows must be instantly raised by those who have entered the sleeping apartment of Duncan.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

Rising like a gull on the uplift of the first wave, she topped it and swung down into its trough and then up the slope of the next.
— from A Year in a Yawl A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl by Russell Doubleday

One day the folks of that neighbourhood met together and tossed up to see who was to kill the witch.
— from The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures by Hall, George, rector of Ruckland, Lincolnshire

They appear to use their sting only as a defensive weapon; but other smaller species that hunt singly, and are very agile, use their stings to paralyse their prey.
— from The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

He gave the Ambassador to understand that Spain could make such a treaty with the United States in regard to the subject as would be satisfactory to the latter, or take the consequences of leaving things as they were.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

Some family tradition of wealth or distinction is apt to be at the bottom of it, and it survives all the advantages that used to set it off.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Looks like a run on the bank," said the Boarder facetiously, as they all trooped up the steps to the big stone building.
— from Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates