[11] “From the public feast none shall attempt to carry anything away.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I saw my sweet girl was not without her faults, but of these her youth, I trusted, was not one, but rather an earnest of virtues yet unblown—a strong ground of presumption that her little defects of temper and errors of judgment, opinion, or manner were not irremediable, but might easily be removed or mitigated by the patient efforts of a watchful and judicious adviser, and where I failed to enlighten and control, I thought I might safely undertake to pardon, for the sake of her many excellences.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But I did this in order that, first of all, from the time when the promises of God began to be more clear, down to the virgin birth of Him in whom those things promised from the first were to be fulfilled,
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The good native cook came out to help me into the house but so altered and emaciated was my appearance, that the poor fellow burst into tears at the first sight.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

This place formed the boundary between the proconsular province of Africa and the territory of the Numidian king Masinissa and his descendants.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

The participle from a transitive verb (22) may take a direct object, and a participle expressing motion may be followed by an accusative indicating direction of motion (46).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Tronchin, when he sent me the letter, inclosed in it another, in which he expressed but very little esteem for the person from whom he received it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The police functionaries and agents are charged with the execution of the present decree. "Given at Paris, in Permanent Session, on the 4th December, 1851.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The last three, with the work of Mencius, constitute the Sz Shü, or Four Books, and were arranged in their present form by Ching fútsz, about eight hundred years ago.
— from Famous Men of Ancient Times by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The Premo Film Pack Adapter has the general size and appearance of a plate holder.
— from Premo Cameras, 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

And if the argument applies to the higher forms of religion, it may surely be applied, and more so, to primitive faiths.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

But tell me, who did the woodwork? MESSENGER Birds again, and clever carpenters too, the pelicans, for they squared up the gates with their beaks in such a fashion that one would have thought they were using axes; the noise was just like a dockyard.
— from The Birds by Aristophanes

A glance showed Mildred the paper folded and laid upon the table.
— from Mildred at Roselands A Sequel to Mildred Keith by Martha Finley

The programs for both were highly original.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

Jerry observed, as well as he could, considering the fact that he was panting with the exertion his burden compelled him to put forth.
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen

At this moment, and most unexpectedly, commenced the great rise of the Mississippi River, and a second cry went out to the government and the people for instant help.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Whatever the future may hold for the interior of Alaska, the author is convinced that its population will derive very largely from the present native stocks, and this alone would justify any efforts to prevent further inroads upon their health and vitality.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck