It may also be brought about by fraud in two different ways, either when the people, being at first deceived, willingly consent to an alteration in their government, and are afterwards obliged by force to abide by it: as, for instance, when the four hundred imposed upon the people by telling them that the king of Persia would supply them with money for the war against the Lacedaemonians; and after they had been guilty of this falsity, they endeavoured to keep possession of the supreme power; or when they are at first persuaded and afterwards consent to be governed: and by one of these methods which I have mentioned are all revolutions in governments brought about.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The strangers retreated to their ships, but the populous sea-coast poured forth a multitude of boats; the waters of the Po were so deeply infected with blood, that during six years the public prejudice abstained from the fish of the river; and the institution of an annual feast perpetuated the worship of images, and the abhorrence of the Greek tyrant.
— 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

The cook had just made for us a mess of hot "scouse"—that is, biscuit pounded fine, salt beef cut into small pieces, and a few potatoes, boiled up together and seasoned with pepper.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The bridegroom’s sister dresses the bride in the new cloth, and takes her to the pandal, to seat her along with the bridegroom, and to serve one or two spoonfuls of milk and a few pieces of plantain fruit, when the bride is formally declared to be the wife of the young man and a member of his family.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Ten years ago it was estimated that chain stores in what is known as the Metropolitan district of New York did about 12 1 ⁄ 2 percent of the volume of business in their line, while today it is estimated at about fifty percent".
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

‘And therefore it is,’ said Mrs. Micawber, ‘that I the more wish, that, at a future period, we may live again on the parent soil.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

My Smerdyakov's an artist at coffee and at fish patties, and at fish soup, too.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On October 5, 1918, the German Government addressed a brief Note to the President accepting the Fourteen Points and asking for Peace negotiations.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

While the Monks were busied in rooting out his virtues and narrowing his sentiments, they allowed every vice which had fallen to his share to arrive at full perfection.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

A Goat, a Sheep, and a fat Pig were sent To market, to their mutual discontent; Not for the pleasures of the noisy fair, But just to sell—the farmer's only care.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Foragers may be formed when the squad is in any authorized formation (par.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

Some years ago, when seasons were good, and farmers could sell their stock at a fair profit, horse-culture might not under ordinary circumstances have been found to pay; but it is entirely different now, and never perhaps was there a period at which good horses, especially high-class hunters, were in more substantial demand than at present.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

The bee builds its first cell, and gathers honey from the first flower, as easily and as well as at any future period.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

Travelling-carriages, tilburies, dennets, curricles, vis-à-vis, cabriolets, are things of the past, and all that remain to us are town-chariots, "drags," and mail-phaetons, in addition to which we have "broughams," "victorias," waggonettes, and a few private Hansom cabs.
— from Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road by Lennox, William Pitt, Lord

This I verily believe, after an intimacy of forty years with the public councils and characters, is a true statement of the grounds on which they are at present divided, and that it is not merely an ambition for power.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Lisle had a strong respect for the calm, gracious lady, though she had won it by no more than a smile or two and a few pleasant words, and he went over to call upon her every now and then.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

He formed the resolution of entering the matrimonial state; but his circumscribed means of subsistence as a farmer preventing his taking that step, he resolved on becoming a flax-dresser, for which purpose he removed to the town of Irvine, in 1781.
— from Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle

It's ill to be ca'd a thief, an' aye found picking.
— from The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

I should rather commend an Infusion in boiling Water of Virginia Snake-Root , or, in want of this, of some other warm Aromatic , with the Addition of about a fourth Part of Aqua Theriacalis , and a proper Quantity of Syrup of Lemons to sweeten it.
— from A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead