But when they were excited by tumultuous, and seditious clamor, then it was a confused Church, Ecclesia Sugkechumene.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“ Many of these [slang] words and phrases are but serving their apprenticeship, and will eventually become the active strength of our language. ”— H. T. Buckle.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

waiting jemanden wegen etwas beschuldigen to accuse sb.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Then there was established between them a strange dialogue of signs and gestures, for neither of them spoke.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

They had gazed with admiration on the dome of St. Sophia: the lively pictures of saints and martyrs, the riches of the altar, the number and vestments of the priests, the pomp and order of the ceremonies; they were edified by the alternate succession of devout silence and harmonious song; nor was it difficult to persuade them, that a choir of angels descended each day from heaven to join in the devotion of the Christians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

On the right-hand side aisle of the church are five other columns built into the wall, and a pilaster which evidently belonged to a second temple standing side by side with the first.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

The destruction was effected by them, and some young men who volunteered.
— from Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake

[Pg 64] And, says the great apostle, "You need shoes for the roads or you will be unfit for the long journeys, and you will easily become tired and sore, and you may even drop out of the ranks."
— from The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

In the first week several of Ivan Matveitch's favourites were sent to the right-about, one was even banished to a settlement, corporal punishment was inflicted on others; the old valet—he was a Turk, knew French, and had been given to Ivan Matveitch by the late field-marshal Kamensky—received his freedom, indeed, but with it a command to be gone within twenty-four hours, 'as an example to others.'
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Later in London the two brothers were entertained by the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and received its gold medal.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

Drastic changes were necessary to stop the alarming deterioration that was taking place, for the nation had not, for fully ten years, been getting anything near the full measure of sea-power to which it was entitled by the annual sums
— from France by Gordon Home

The personality and individual life attributed to natural objects, such as trees, rivers, winds, etc., belongs to a stage of conception between the Greek anthropomorphism and the recognition by the imagination of universal law and interdependence of phenomena.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

The third and fourth volumes, posthumously published in 1864,—Sir Francis died in 1861,—are well edited by the author's son, Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave, who honorably upholds the honored name he inherits.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Then came the incident of that day, and the reddleman, still loving her well, was excited by this accidental service to her at a critical juncture to vow an active devotion to her cause, instead of, as hitherto, sighing and holding aloof.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy