(13) Ziegler, T. Die geistigen und socialen Strömungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it “with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“You would do so?” said d’Artagnan, undecided, so strongly did the confidence of Athos begin to prevail, in spite of himself.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

( Moniteur, ut supra; Seance du 25 Septembre. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A man of a prodigious fortune coming to give his judgment upon some slight dispute that was foolishly set on foot at his table, began in these words: “It can be no other but a liar or a fool that will say otherwise than so and so.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As she ran up the stairs and, reaching the upper story, sat down to the piano in the drawing-room, a murmur of sound reached her from below like the roar of the sea; most likely they were talking of her and of Pimenov, and perhaps Stinging Beetle was taking advantage of her absence to insult Varvarushka and was putting no check on her language.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Some infants yet survived, and the unsated steel Still drinks the life-blood of each whelp of Christian-kind, To kiss thy sandall'd foot, O King, thy people kneel, And golden circlets to thy victor-ankle bind.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The fox. — Foxes are sometimes shot, but are generally taken in the traps described above, which are usually set some distance from the village so as to avoid catching prowling dogs.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

aux études qui en font une science susceptible d'idées générales, d'applications aux choses utiles et de liaison avec les autres branches des connaissances humaines.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

Their comrades without inquiry followed this example; until so strong did the prejudice for food marked “U.S.” become, that other contractors, in order that their provisions should find favor with the soldiers, took to announcing “Uncle Sam” brands.
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

"Well, Colonel Dunwody," began the Honorable William Jones, "you didn't expect to see us so soon, did you?
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

In the Summer golden, When the forests olden Shook their rich tresses gaily in the morn; And the lark upflew, Sprinkling silver dew Down from its light wing o'er the yellow corn; When every blessing Seem'd the earth caressing, As though 'twere fondled by some love sublime, Strong in her youthful hope, Upon the sunny slope
— from The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by J. C. Manning

But the interrex did not constitute a form of administration, or a change of government, any more than, when the President or Vice-president of the United States should die, the performance of the duties of the office of president by the speaker of the senate would indicate a change, or than the regency of the Prince of Wales in the time of George III. constituted a new form of government.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose; And there the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done, And wakes a vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper; and there are Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton Where das Betreten's not verboten . . .
— from Poems of To-Day: an Anthology by Various