After three days the mock king is condemned to death; the envelope or shell in which he was encased is committed to the flames, and from its ashes the Fellah creeps forth.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

St. George became the patron Saint of England in 1344, when Edward III consecrated to him the Order of the Garter.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Then Alexander interrupting him, said:—“But all of you without exception I consider my kinsmen, and so from this time I shall call you.”
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Metre, therefore, having been connected with poetry most often and by a peculiar fitness, whatever else is combined with metre must, though it be not itself essentially poetic, have nevertheless some property in common with poetry, as an intermedium of affinity, a sort, (if I may dare borrow a well-known phrase from technical chemistry), of mordaunt between it and the super-added metre.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I. The science of grammar 842 was in ancient times far from being in vogue at Rome; indeed, it was of little use in a rude state of society, when the people were engaged in constant wars, and had not much time to bestow on the cultivation of the liberal arts 843 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

On the same day I telegraphed to General L. C. Easton, chief-quartermaster, who had been absent on a visit to Missouri, but had got back to Chattanooga: Go in person to superintend the repairs of the railroad, and make all orders in my name that will expedite its completion.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Distinctly as I recollect her look, I cannot say of what it was expressive, I cannot even say of what it is expressive to me now, rising again before my older judgement.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

These shells they had broken up and were pounding into small fragments, to what end I could not imagine; but so long as they were quiet and not in positive mischief, I did not care; and, with a feeling of unusual repose, I sat by the fire, putting the finishing stitches to a frock for Mary Ann’s doll; intending, when that was done, to begin a letter to my mother.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

But among the duties classed as local, or performed by local functionaries, there are many which might with equal propriety be termed national, being the share belonging to the locality of some branch of the public administration in the efficiency of which the whole nation is alike interested: the jails, for instance, most of which in this country are under county management; the local police; the local administration of justice, much of which, especially in corporate towns, is performed by officers elected by the locality, and paid from local funds.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

“Thank you, Mr Grenvile,” replied the captain, who was engaged in conversation with Mr Fawcett, the officer of the watch.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

The labourers were employed in clearing ground for cultivation, husking and stripping Indian corn, and other necessary work; and six men were sawing frames for building barracks.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

So munificently did the people bestow their aid, that large storehouses were provided in Berlin and in the provinces for its reception, and at the central depot in Berlin two hundred paid persons, besides a large number of volunteers, and nearly three hundred ladies and misses were employed in classifying, parceling, packing up, and dispatching the goods.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

And thus to Byford and Bridge Sollars where Offa’s Dyke, having run from North Wales, ends its course, and leaves the Wye for the rest of its journey to form the eighth-century line of demarcation between Welsh and Saxon, or, more literally perhaps, between those who knocked under to the Mercian Kings and those who would not.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

We, in the meantime, were employed in collecting the various vessels which had been captured by the pirates and bringing them under our guns, lest some of the rovers might attempt to get off and pursue their old calling in other regions.
— from The Boy who sailed with Blake by William Henry Giles Kingston

The lending-houses in Italy, with the origin of which I am acquainted, are as follows:—The lending-house at Perugia was inspected in 1485 by Bernardinus, who enlarged its capital.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

It certainly was a very merry place, and if its presiding geniuses were engaged in conscious philanthropy, the blighting hallmark was conspicuous by its absence.
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“Lord love you,” said she, “for three francs and wine extra I can give you both such a dinner every day that you will be ready to lick the plates as clean as if they were washed.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Several millions of dollars were expended in constructing and perfecting five magnificent roads radiating from Paris to the frontiers of the empire.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

This dangerous habit of making satirical remarks was evinced in childhood; it was cherished; it 'grew with her growth, and strengthened with her strength,' until she became what I have described. LAURA."
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott