The feeling of reverence should itself be treated with reverence, although not at a sacrifice of truth, with which alone, in the end, reverence is compatible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

They sailed the same day past Jadar with the best wind, and in the evening reached Hirtingsey, from whence the king proceeded to Hordaland, and was entertained there in guest-quarters.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Quarles and Zena were already in the empty room waiting for me.
— from The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner

Shenston, J.B.—The Authority of Jehovah asserted, ... with some remarks on the article on Milton's Essay on the Sabbath and the Lord's Day, which appeared in the Evangelical Review, 1826.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

The father forgot, of course—just as they all forget—that she was precisely the same young girl with precisely the same heart before the fête as she was after it; that every rag on her back I had given her; that her triumph was purely a matter of chance—my going first to his house and thus finding her—and that on the very next day she had milked the cows and polished the tins just as she had done since she was old enough to help her mother.
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

The French translator of Mr. Browne’s ingenious articles which appeared in the Edinburgh Review, has certainly gone a good deal out of his way to find matter of accusation against Mr. Champollion.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

In Knot VI., the first Problem was of course a mere jeu de mots , whose presence I thought excusable in a series of Problems whose aim is to entertain rather than to instruct: but it has not escaped the contemptuous criticisms of two of my correspondents, who seem to think that Apollo is in duty bound to keep his bow always on the stretch.
— from A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll

The circumstances which led up to the formation of the Gentlemen's Agreement were almost inconceivable to English railway operators.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

“Yes, it has clever articles, and I remember how I was absorbed in the eloquent romance which appeared in it.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

My Dear Reeve,—Your article [Footnote: 'The National Church,' which appeared in the Edinburgh Review of July.]
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve

The high integrity of his character was at once recognized—he was addressed in terms exceedingly respectful, if not deferential, by the two magistrates—Chevydale having at once ordered the servant in attendance to hand him a chair.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton