The air was fresh and balmy, like a breeze from the mountains perfumed with flowers from a valley of roses.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Ochre , money, generally applied to gold, for a very obvious reason.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

There might abide loyal, marital, filial, fraternal and various other relations, but the greatest of all these was loyalty.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Obedient to the will of his sovereign he showed himself to the soldiers in this unworthy disguise they resented his ignominy and their own; a shout of rebellion ran through the ranks; and the general accepted their oath of fidelity and vows of revenge.
— 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

[1049] Unctions, lustrations, benedictions or any essentially positive operation may be used for this purpose; but the same result may be attained by means of fasts and vigils or retreat and silence, that is to say, by ritual abstinences, which are nothing more than certain interdictions put into practice.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

OCHRE, money, generally applied to gold , for a very obvious reason.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

It seemed well to wipe out the past with kisses, after we had taken oath, for fear any vestige of rancor should persist in our minds.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It is found neither on his map, in his own account, nor in the ship's journal, and could not be so found for a very obvious reason—Bering had never been there.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

I chuckled to myself as I went, being sure I was done with that rogue, for a variety of reasons.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

In " Cobbett's Cottage Economy " there will be found a variety of receipts for cooking Indian corn meal.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

The right of inheritance of personal property, it may be noted, will be retained; and this for a variety of reasons, of which the most satisfactory seems to be that such a right serves as an incentive to economy and activity.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

she continued, as the youth laid one hand upon the door yard fence, and vaulted over, "right into [Pg 136] my flower-beds, trampling over the grass there—did you ever?"
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

King Edward, for a variety of reasons, took a much greater part in the Diamond Jubilee festivities of 1897 than he did in those of ten years before.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes

A burning rage darts forth from her eyes and brands him for a victim of revenge.
— from American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

It is a very significant book for a variety of reasons."— Philadelphia Press .
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

And for a variety of reasons it did n't seem as if it could have been intended for any one else.
— from The Diary of a Freshman by Charles Macomb Flandrau

For a variety of reasons his fame and services seem never to have been sufficiently recognized or acknowledged by his own countrymen.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

The Author has by him materials for another volume of “Rambles on Railways,” (relating principally to the railway networks of Foreign countries), which may probably be published in the course of the present year.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir