"Hadn't you any doubts about it, any fears of going wrong or being sorry afterwards?" asked Christie, who believed, as many do, that religion could not be attained without much tribulation of some kind.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And as to those slashes with whips, blows with staves, cuffs and boxes, maledictions and curses, with a Thousand of such kind of Torments they suffered during the fatigue of their laborious journeys it would require a long tract of time, and many Reams of Paper to describe them, and when all were done would only create Horror and Consternation in the Reader.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

And you may have heard too, of Sigurd, King of Norway, and how he sailed thither with sixty ships, and how he and his men rode up through streets all canopied in their honour with purple and gold; and how the Emperor and Empress came down and banqueted with him on board Page 236 [Pg 236] his ship.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The same Chauhan legends state that Ajaipal was prince of Ajmer at this time; that in this invasion by sea he hastened to Anjar (on the coast of Cutch), where he held the ‘guard of the ocean’ ( Samudra ki Chauki ), where he fell in opposing the landing.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And yet, whether, even to this day, that inexpressible tone of society known under the old Kings, when Sin had 'lost all its deformity' ( with or without advantage to us ), and airy Nothing had obtained such a local habitation and establishment as she never had,—be recovered?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“A woman in truth—in very truth—and thine own spouse, Kallikrates!”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The article may be omitted when the nouns denote things of similar kind, provided the condition in note 69 is observed, particularly with reference to number.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

" With this he led the way from the assembly, and the other sceptred kings rose with him in obedience to the word of Agamemnon; but the people pressed forward to hear.
— from The Iliad by Homer

So far as the other scouts knew, Elmer Chenowith had never seen such a mystery as a real ghost in all his life; and he certainly had not heard one groan, or give any kind of sound.
— from Under Canvas; or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan, Captain

A stock company was organized with the amount of $1,000 and is the only stock known on record which never at any time went below par.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

The curvatures of the vertebral column which accompany rickets are scoliosis or lateral deviation (frequent in school-children) and kyphosis , or deviation in a backward curve; for the most part these two curvatures occur together, so that the vertebral column is thrust outward and at the same time is twisted to one side: kyphoscoliosis .
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

There was no official Messianic doctrine, only a mass of vague fancies and beliefs, grouped round the central idea of the appearance on earth of a supernatural Being, who should establish a theocracy of some kind at Jerusalem.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

Strange to relate, while Pausanias was winning one battle at Platæa, the other Spartan king, Eurybiades, defeated a new Persian fleet at Myc´a-le.
— from The Story of the Greeks by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber