Neither is it any Piece of Religion to enforce Religion; which must be undertaken by Consent, and not by Violence, seeing that the Sacrifices themselves are not required, but from a willing Mind.”
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

It was the policy of Russia to encourage, rather than to check, this return on a distant past; and from the north of Norway to the slopes of the Altai, ardent explorers sought out the fragments of unwritten early poetry.
— from Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

“There are some permanent inām (rent-free) lands belonging to this shrine, and there is always a Mādiga ‘vestal virgin’ known as Māthangi, who is the high priestess, or rather the embodied representative of the Brahman-chuckler goddess, and who enjoys the fruits of the inams.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Though I had determined, my excellent tutor, to write you an epistle in verse, yet I could not satisfy myself without sending also another in prose, for the emotions of my gratitude, which your services so justly inspire, are too expansive and too warm to be expressed in the confined limits of poetical metre; they demand the unconstrained freedom of prose, or rather the exuberant richness of Asiatic phraseology: thought it would far exceed my power accurately to describe how much I am obliged to you, even if I could drain dry all the sources of eloquence, or exhaust all the topics of discourse which Aristotle or the famed Parisian logician has collected.
— from Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton

Lastly, the fears and conscious recollections of those who held {31} the chief power in France for the time, induced them to view their own safety as deeply compromised by any proposition of restoring the exiled royal family.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

Crouching under a slight projection of rock, the explorers remained until the first fury of the squall was over.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne