The old woman paused, as though hesitating; then stepped on one side, and pointing to the door of the room, she said, letting her visitor pass in front of her: “Step in, my good sir.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This Goddess is styled πολυπτολις , because this office was particularly ascribed to her: and she had many places under her patronage.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

On the other hand, he is equally an object of the flattery and praise of the Tories, who cannot get over their being succeeded by a Peelite Prime Minister, and they cling to the belief that there can be no real cordiality, and must be complete difference of opinion, between Aberdeen and Palmerston, and they look forward to the prospect of their disunion to break up this odious Government, and a return to office with Palmerston at their head.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

I am not saying that the people of this country approved of the war which Italy thought good to wage against Turkey, or were pleased at the horrible slaughter in the Balkans.
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

The walls of the opening were perpendicular, and the hole was so deep that when a stone was dropped into it they could scarcely hear the thing strike bottom.
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

The twenty shillings which, by evading payment of the duty, he has appropriated to his own uses, has been taken from the rest of the tax-payers, and he has simply shifted on to them the obligation which properly attached to himself.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

yes surely, said the people, Oh the cunningness of the young Rogue! said the old fellow, and how much you are all mistaken for I have stood and seen that young Rogue cut the old womans Purse, and thereupon he went to his young practitioner in Roguery, and took him by the hand causing him to arise, and bringing him to the people, shewed them the Purse he had thus purchased; the old woman was not so intent at her devotions, 213 but she casting her eyes aside likewise saw a Purse in the Boys hand, missing her own soon knew that to be it, wherefore she and all the people came nearer the Boy, who stood still as a stock and said nothing to them, and all the people, not only they that went by, but also at their report most of the people in the market came thither to see this young Rogue, admiring at the boldness of the fact, but they had been better to have staid away and minded their own Affairs; for our old Rogue seeing his opportunity, and that now there was a great many people together, he fell a diving into their pockets, and got good Pillage, and his Companions who were not far off at the noise came in to the sport, and all laid about them so lustily that there were few who escaped without their pockets being pick’d, onely the old woman had her purse again, but in exchange of that our old Rogue and his Companions had twenty others better fraught with moneys; in fine, they being weary with looking on the boy, & the Pick-pockets thinking they had done sufficiently for that time, the old fellow came to the boy, and told him that as he had first of all discovered him, so he should go along with him; the boy who had learned obedience to his Superiors, consented, and so they march’d off, and went a little way out of the Town to an Ale-house, where they divided the plunder of the field, which amounted to above twenty pounds.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants, Comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes: The Third Part by Francis Kirkman

It is related of him that once when preaching against the heretics he compared them to wolves and the faithful to sheep.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

"Yes, nearly well," he replied, and they talked together awhile, and she gave him the oranges, which pleased and touched him, for he was a different man now that he drank tisane instead of liquor.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

War , c. 85) has put a long speech in the mouth of Marius on this occasion, which Plutarch appears to have used.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Then Mathilde's father returned to the salon , saluted the old woman politely, and took his leave.
— from The Jew by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

The ordeal was the more severe because the operation was protracted and the hair plucked in small strands.
— from Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay