S r , you haue now the ground, To exerciſe them in: I am a woman: That cannot ſpeake more wretchedneſſe of my ſelfe, Then you can read; match’d to a maſſe of folly; 20 That euery day makes haſte to his owne ruine; The wealthy portion, that I brought him, ſpent; And (through my friends neglect)
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

In some parishes of Cornwall when a baptism occurs the north door of the nave opposite the font is thrown open, so that the devil cast out may retire to his own region, the north.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The whites elect seventy members of the House of Representatives, the Maoris four.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Whether it was the teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in peace.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So these were the lawyer's methods, which K. fortunately had not been exposed to for long, to let the client forget about the whole world and leave him with nothing but the hope of reaching the end of his trial by this deluded means.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

83 Atrocious, indeed, must have been the guilt, and strange would have been the scepticism, of those men, if they had obstinately resisted the proofs of a divine agency, which the elements, the whole range of the animal creation, and even the subtle and invisible operations of the human mind, were compelled to obey. 84 The immediate, and almost instantaneous, effects that were supposed to follow the prayer, or the offence, satisfied the Christians of the ample measure of favor and authority which the saints enjoyed in the presence of the Supreme God; and it seemed almost superfluous to inquire whether they were continually obliged to intercede before the throne of grace; or whether they might not be permitted to exercise, according to the dictates of their benevolence and justice, the delegated powers of their subordinate ministry.
— 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

Then looking rather thoughtfully at the two cousins, he retired to his own rooms, to write up his philosophic diary.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The rations did not reach him, however, and Hancock, while he got all his corps over during the night, remained until half-past ten in the hope of receiving them.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Mr Verloc intimated hoarsely that he was in the habit of reading the daily papers.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

It's been a matter of pride with the house of Ruey to keep the breed pure, but despite all precautions, the family tree has been grafted once with a Scotch thistle, twice with the lily of France, and once with the shamrock of Ireland.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

The Hellenists, or rather the high-priest, next petitioned Antiochus that those Judæans who were trained for the Greek 445 combats should be registered as Antiochians or Macedonians, and as such be entitled to the privileges of full citizenship, and admitted to all public meetings and games of the Greeks.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

(2) Upon consideration of the budget, when the House of Councillors makes a decision different from that of the House of Representatives, and when no agreement can be reached even through a joint committee of both Houses, provided for by law, or in the case of failure by the House of Councillors to take final action within thirty (30) days, the period of recess excluded, after the receipt of the budget passed by the House of Representatives, the decision of the House of Representatives shall be the decision of the Diet.
— from The Constitution of Japan, 1946 by Japan

The chief trouble with the half of his work is that he was so obsessed with the idea of snobbery that he did injustice to humanity, or rather to his countrymen; for Thackeray was very English, and interest in his characters depends largely on familiarity with the life he describes.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It was a merry ride, for on the way they met numerous travellers, who were going through the hamlet of Rappolts to the “three castles on the mountain” and saluted the old nobleman with lively songs.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

In November, 1876, he was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, to which he was elected in October, receiving 2,339 votes against 1,642 for L. N. Greenleaf, Democrat.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

In addition to all this he often replenished the state treasury out of his own pocket.
— from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

After that Heinrich vanished from the dancing-room, he returned to his own room to devise artful plans for the future.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

They risked the chance they had of reshaping the structure of human society to a higher level of common sense and liberty.
— from People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad by Philip Gibbs