How this obstacle would have been surmounted by the Israelitish founder of the order I am unable to say: a substitute would, no doubt, have been invented, which would have met all the symbolic requirements of the legend of the Mysteries, or Spurious Freemasonry, without violating the religious principles of the Primitive Freemasonry of the Jews; but the necessity for such invention never existed, and before the completion of the temple a melancholy event is said to have occurred, which served to cut the Gordian knot, and the death of its chief architect has supplied Freemasonry with its appropriate legend—a legend which, like the legends of all the Mysteries, is used to testify our faith in the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soul.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Brother, while Ponary stands, while the Niemen flows, so long will the name of the Soplicas be famous in Lithuania; to their grandsons and great-grandsons the capital of the Jagiellos 109 will point, saying, ‘There is a Soplica, one of those Soplicas who first started the revolt.’ ” “People's talk is of small account,” answered the Judge.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

To M. Amelot he transmitted the news of the court; to M. Maurepas, that of Paris; to M. d’ Havrincourt, the news from Sweden; to M. de Chetardie, that from Petersbourg; and sometimes to each of those the news they had respectively sent to him, and which I was employed to dress up in terms different from those in which it was conveyed to us.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We turned in at the gate of Leastways Cottage, and proceeded up the now familiar stairs.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

He had waited for quite another thing, not for such a thing as that.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Dressed up to the nines for somebody.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And when they had joined to themselves many of the Sicarii, who crowded in among the weaker people, [that was the name for such robbers as had under their bosoms swords called Sicae,] they grew bolder, and carried their undertaking further; insomuch that the king's soldiers were overpowered by their multitude and boldness; and so they gave way, and were driven out of the upper city by force.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

On the east side of this lane is Crooked lane aforesaid, by St. Michael’s church, towards New Fish street.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Grosvenor Place and Grosvenor Street received their names from Sir Thomas Grosvenor, the ancestor of the Duke of Westminster, the ground landlord of the district collectively known as Belgravia; Eccleston Street and Eccleston Square from Eccleston, in Cheshire, the county in which the landed property of the Grosvenors chiefly lies; and Belgrave Square and Belgrave Street from the Viscountcy of Belgravia, the second title of the Duke of Westminster before he was raised to his superior titles.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

Then, throwing off the numbing fear, she sprang to her feet.
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss

Directly, however, the need for such legislation as I have outlined above is realized, and such legislation is passed, then the tide will be turned.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

The bitterness of this news finally sent Inocencio seaward in a barkentine, the business of which was not above suspicion.
— from The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach

When Mrs. Julaper was gone, he lighted his pipe, and drew near the window, through which he looked upon the now fading sky and the twilight landscape.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

He therefore gave the signal by shouting “Carthage,” and at once with his followers fell upon one flank of the natives, for such their dress showed them to be, while Trebon attacked them on the other.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The outlook seemed bad, but Mr. Wodehouse's valet, a shrewd and energetic man of thirty or thereabouts, named Frost, said to me, "I don't believe all this.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

By the saving in life and health, through the continuance in earning power of men, whose lives would otherwise have been cut short, he estimated that the expenditure of the £1,900,000 for the 11,000 persons, by the addition often years' earning power to the heads of families, brought in a return of £4,600,000, and urged these facts as showing the pecuniary advantages accruing to the nation from sanitary improvements which led to decreased death and sickness rates.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various