His master promised to keep him for some time longer on trial; then desired to know in what manner lady Griskin and Mr Barton came to join their religious society, he told him, that her ladyship was the person who first carried my aunt and sister to the Tabernacle, whither he attended them, and had his devotion kindled by Mr W—‘s preaching: that he was confirmed in this new way, by the preacher’s sermons, which he had bought and studied with great attention: that his discourse and prayers had brought over Mrs Jenkins and the house-maid to the same way of thinking; but as for Mr Barton, he had never seen him at service before this day, when he came in company with lady Griskin.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Next, instead of calling out a score of hands to man the stage, a couple of men and a hatful of steam lowered it from the derrick where it was suspended, launched it, deposited it in just the right spot, and the whole thing was over and done with before a mate in the olden time could have got his profanity-mill adjusted to begin the preparatory services.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“Justly thought; rightly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this moment, I am paving hell with energy.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

'But if many states join their resources, shall we not be in danger?'
— from The Republic by Plato

The allegiance of his brother was already seduced; and the obedience of Godegisel, who joined the royal standard with the troops of Geneva, more effectually promoted the success of the conspiracy.
— 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

"This canal joins the river some miles further on, a little above Toad Hall; and then it's an easy walk.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

After having much praised or much blamed anybody, one is generally sensible of something just the reverse soon afterwards.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Salmoneus, suff’ring cruel pains, I found, For emulating Jove; the rattling sound Of mimic thunder, and the glitt’ring blaze Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

When Donald next awoke, stiff and aching in every joint, the rising sun warned him that he must lose no time in placing a greater distance between himself and those who would soon be on his trail, if, indeed, the pursuit were not already begun.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

‘But if many states join their resources, shall we not be in danger?’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Then the ruler of Israel said, "Take Micaiah back to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the ruler's son, and say, 'This is the ruler's command: Put this fellow in prison and feed him with a scanty fare of bread and water until I return successful.'"
— from The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman

On the other hand, it was to eliminate what was contrary to reason in each: from Judaism the ritual system and the sacrifices; from Christianity the deification of Jesus and the teaching of redemption through His blood.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

The jungle, the rocks, seemed to swim around me as I crashed to the ground and felt the Brahmin’s knee in the small of my back.”
— from Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer

He joined the Royal Standard, and was immediately appointed to an ensigncy, in the 84th regiment.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

All loyal officers were called upon to join the royal standard, and troops at Popayan were hurried south with this object.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

So, earlier in the afternoon, he had journeyed to Regent Street and wandered vaguely round a huge shop which seemed to contain nothing else but what one would like to buy.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell