We next find beards worn only by country people, who, according to contemporary historians, desired to preserve a "remembrance of their participation in the Crusades."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Why, a Turk could ha' done no more.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

[298] he was at the convento; he went to the Justice of the Peace, but neither was the Justice of the Peace at home—he had been summoned to the convento; he went to the teniente-mayor, but he too was at the convento; he directed his steps to the barracks, but the lieutenant of the Civil Guard was at the convento.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

However, as he was a favorite with Cucumetto, as he had for three years faithfully served him, and as he had saved his life by shooting a dragoon who was about to cut him down, he hoped the chief would have pity on him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Their criticism stopped at the frontiers of their practical discontent; they did not care to ask how the belief in matter, space, motion, God, or whatever else still retained their allegiance, could withstand the kind of psychology which, as they conceived, had done away with individual essences and nominal powers.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thus at Braller on Ash Wednesday or Shrove Tuesday two white and two chestnut horses draw a sledge on which is placed a straw-man swathed in a white cloth; beside him is a cart-wheel which is kept turning round.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

At least ten years later Grandlieu availed himself of his intimate friend Henri de Chaulieu and also of Corentin—Saint-Denis—in order to stay the suit against Lucien de Rubempre which was about to compromise his daughter Clotilde-Frederique.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

He did not show her the picture he had secreted; he knew she would not approve of the act, and if she had no suspicion with regard to the woman and the child he did not care to share his with her, particularly as it was only a suspicion, and so far as he could judge in his perturbed state of mind, nothing he could do would ever make things sure.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Odious repetition of those words, "Order reigns in Warsaw," and "The chassepot has done wonders."
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The Little Fir Tree was happy as a bird, because he knew they were about to cut him down.
— from Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant

It was his admirable handling of the cavalry under Lannes's directions which held the Russians in check for sixteen hours, until Napoleon was able to concentrate his divisions and give the Russians the coup-de-grâce.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

When America was settled, a compact was made, either in the way of charters or of organic laws, by which all the colonies had distinct rights, while, on the other hand, they confessed allegiance to the king.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

When all the chlorine has disappeared add the dye-stuff, and dye as directed above.
— from The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech

When the young undergraduate wrote dutiful letters home the longest messages were always for Nan; when he carried little offerings of flowers to his young neighbors, Nan’s bouquet was always the choicest; he distinguished her, too, on all occasions by those small nameless attentions which never fail to please.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

“YOU have it,” he grunted without attempting to conceal his disgust.
— from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo

“Where are the cattle?” he demanded, his voice a trifle hoarse.
— from 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer