Served in Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and America, and received four severe wounds at Waterloo.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

We are to recollect that this number was in a country where persecution had for ages abolished all religious differences, and where the [104] difficulty was not to find the stake, but the offering.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The succeeding pontificate of Innocent the Sixth opened a new prospect of his deliverance and restoration; and the court of Avignon was persuaded, that the successful rebel could alone appease and reform the anarchy of the metropolis.
— 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

Well, I said, would you not allow that assent and dissent, desire and aversion, attraction and repulsion, are all of them opposites, whether they are regarded as active or passive (for that makes no difference in the fact of their opposition)?
— from The Republic by Plato

The offer was agitated in the council of the barons; and, after a repetition of their debates and scruples, a majority of votes again acquiesced in the advice of the doge and the prayer of the young emperor.
— 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

Consequently the thirty-three Masons of the thirty-third degree who compose the Supreme Council which directs the Ancient and Accepted Rite are necessarily professing Christians.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The former must always afford a rent to the landlord.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And, as a rule, it was too long a spell of "civilization" that induced the attacks, for a few days of the wilderness invariably cured them.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

The only evidence which one can recognize as good, is that which makes equally in favour of the theory of stirp—or rather, of the well-known fact that congenital characters are at any rate much more heritable than are acquired: which, it is needless to repeat, is a widely different thing from proving—or even rendering probable—the absolute restriction of germ-plasm to a separate “sphere” of its own “since the origin of life.”
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

The present officers, J. F. Rall, president, and John Wunderlich, secretary, are making records in their administration and achieving results that speak for themselves.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

wool-weavers, and in the other from the company of merchant sailors, must have been very great; for there is evidence that they began to make friends and acquaintances among a rather different class than had been formerly accessible to them.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

She hurried forward almost at a run; yet it was still [Pg 77] there—no farther, no nearer.
— from Madame Delphine by George Washington Cable

The following passage may be regarded as supplying this missing something:— “The wicked who have done some good work are as amply rewarded for it in this world as if they were men who have fulfilled the whole of the Torah, so that they may be punished for their sins in the next world (without interruption); whilst the righteous who have committed some sin have to suffer for it (in this world) as if "they were men who burned the Law,” so that they may enjoy their reward in the world to come (without interruption).
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

The Vicar took no notice of it at all, and remained obstinately silent for the rest of the drive home.
— from Abington Abbey: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

[Pg 306] time they were all sitting on real chairs and at a real table, with a real oil-cloth cover—the first of such things they had seen for many a day.
— from The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough

The worst of it was that she went into that amphibious section of society with a wholeness of heart which made anything equivocal repulsive to her: when she believed she gave herself: in the generous ardor of her soul, even in her egoism, she always burned her boats; and, as a result of living with Olivier, she had preserved a moral inability to compromise, which she was apt to apply even in immorality.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

The war-ship closed and grappled with the corsair, but while the sailors were standing at the chains ready to leap aboard and complete the subjugation of the outlaws a mass of flame burst from the pirate ship, both vessels were hurled in fragments through the air, and a roar went for miles along the sea.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

He waited for the young men to speak, and finding they remained silent, he glanced at them half angrily and again repeated his words— "I am the bonde ,—Olaf Güldmar.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli