These clubs likewise effected a remarkable separation between the sexes; and it is recorded, that after their establishment, women associated more with each other, and were oftener seen in public unaccompanied by men.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Her book, too, was exciting no small interest, and the consequent letters, enquiries and reviews [105] —very lengthy reviews in some cases—were a preoccupation in themselves.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

Cub Lee established a reputation for keeping his word and it was said no one ever disputed it and lived.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers

And could Love enter a reverend doctor’s study, and find his way into a heart empty and swept of all those shreds of poetry and romance in which he usually finds the material of his incantations?
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She had in mind, of course, the performances she had just witnessed, or, to be more exact, the contortions of the ballet and the modern music-hall artist with which we are all so familiar; the inane balancing and pirouetting on the toes, the heavy hip and protruding stomach, quivering breasts and bellowing and frothing at the mouth, and colored light effects and risque posing in scant attire, coupled with a display of attractive lingerie.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

77 Mixed marriages are not now contrary to the civil law either among Roman Catholic or Protestant nations, but in countries belonging to the Orthodox Greek Church ecclesiastical restrictions have been adopted, and are still recognised, by the State.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Withe this scripture, whiche shalle expresse, [194] Honour of kyng is in every mannys sight, [195] Of comone custom lovyth equyte and right, Kyng Davyd wrot, the sawter berith witnes, Lord God, quod he, thi dome yif us
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous