The Dominicans retaliated by excommunication, and the Audiencia thereupon banished the provincial of the order from the Islands, and sent several other friars to Mariveles.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The knowledge which introduced scepticism is infinitely more [ Pg 2] valuable than the faith it displaced; but, in spite of that, there be few among us who have not felt evanescent regrets for the displacement by the foi scientifique of the old faith in fairies.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There are five of these divinities, the chief being in the centre, and the other four occupying the north, the west, the south, and the east.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

M. Buat had supposed that it was the father of Cassiodorus who held the office first named.
— 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

But she thought the shoes had not been thrown out far enough.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He began the long, weary round of factories and warehouses, tramping all day, from one end of the city to the other, finding everywhere from ten to a hundred men ahead of him.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

He knew how to handle them, not like a lot of cranks and little mestizos who are spoiling them by paying three or four reals.” “Does your Reverence say that he paid only eight cuartos?
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

These men, grey and bearded, dying in our clean beds, wetting our clean sheets with the blood that oozes from their dressings, have been out there, moaning in the trenches.
— from The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

In this crisis, Cincinnatus, who had retired from the consulship to resume his favorite toil of farming, was called to be dictator, with absolute power.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

"Well, I've got an order for £1 this morning, envelope stamped St. Amory, and it could only come from some one who knew I was stumped, and you're the only fellow who knew that, unless, indeed, you've been kind enough to tell some of the fellows."
— from Acton's Feud: A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson

Most of the views were unfortunately hidden by clouds, though one fine triple-headed peak showed up well to the South.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

It was a time of frantic exultation with the poor fellow.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

What a view presented itself on leaving the Ohio for the Mississippi!
— from Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker

He had extracted from the works of Nicole and Fenelon, his favourite authors, three or four hundred concise and sententious phrases; these he had classed according to subject, and formed a work of them in the style of Montesquieu.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

In his present mood, Hamlet forgets the cogency of the reasons that swayed him in the other; forgets that his uppermost feeling then was doubt, as horror, indignation, and conviction are uppermost now.
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

Its humor is as trenchant as that of Frederick the Great in levying the same toll upon these hirelings, when passing through [Pg 473] his dominions on their way to America, pursuant to the mercenary engagements between their German masters and George III., as that levied by him upon other cattle.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongues and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are."
— from The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Various