The chief rejoined that last year he had been to Awa's place, and had been very civilly treated.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In what style they had come careering along the country roads!
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

15.] which is made by an unrefracted beam of Light was by any Dilation of the single Rays, or by any other irregularity in the Refraction of the first Prism, converted into the oblong Spectrum, PT: then ought every Circle AG, BH, CJ, &c. in that Spectrum, by the cross Refraction of the second
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

A few words of explanation sufficed; horses were provided, and we rode hastily into the city, reaching the office of the Nicaragua Steamship Company (C. K. Garrison, agent) about dark, just as the purser had arrived; by a totally different route.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Nevertheless, having this morning received from them a demand of an account of all monies within their cognizance, received and issued by me, I was willing, upon this hint, to give myself rest, by knowing whether their meaning therein might reach only to my Treasurership for Tangier, or the monies employed on this occasion.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

i. p. 528, Baskerville's edition;) but his superficial tract on the Christian religion owes its credit to his name, his style, and the interested applause of our clergy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For the Christian religion has been characterized by frequent changes in its doctrines in every stage of its practical history, as was also the Jewish religion which preceded it, and from which it emanated.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

And so they bring up their children, rude as they are themselves, unqualified, untaught, uncivil most part.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was during this period that Camillus reached the height of power and glory, and yet he would not become consul against the will of the people, although several occasions occurred when he might have been elected, but in his various appointments he always contrived, even when he had sole command, to share his power with others, while even when he had colleagues he kept all the glory for himself.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Dixerat; ille caput placidis sublime fluentis extulit, et totis lucem spargentia ripis 160 [85] disgrace; such was the complete reversal of his fortune.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

He had embraced the Catholic religion, rather through complaisance than conviction or inclination; and many of the Abyssins who had done the same, waited only for an opportunity of making public profession of the ancient erroneous opinions, and of re-uniting themselves to the Church of Alexandria.
— from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jerónimo Lobo

Without this advantage I never should have ventured upon a third volume of such abstruse philosophy, in an age, wherein the greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires any considerable degree of attention to be comprehended.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Since the peace, not a trace of cloud had come between them; he was careful to keep his hands entirely off the O.A.D.; Armstrong, on his side, gave the Fosdick railway and industrial enterprises the same "courtesies" they had always enjoyed, except that he charged them the current rate of interest, instead of the old special rate.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips

Many a man has been able to form a truer conception regarding child freedom through the influence of the word “child-queller.”
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Thérèse went up to tell her, and she sent word for him to come right up to her room."
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

The commandant returned to Gaillon with his men, little suspecting that the woman he was looking for was calmly playing cards with one of her accomplices a few steps away, while they were searching her house.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre

The children rule.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The most miraculous of his deeds was the proof he gave to the Moors of the genuineness of the Catholic religion: on a tray of oats he placed the host and offered it to a mule, which, instead of munching oats and host, fell on its knees, and perhaps even crossed itself!
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

In this way the second series of the chest register is entirely omitted; but the made tones, as the expression is, thus obtained, sound very disagreeable and coarse, and the falsetto tones, which in this way begin lower than necessary, are on the contrary faint and weak.
— from The Voice in Singing by Emma Seiler