Biographical historians and historians of separate nations understand this force as a power inherent in heroes and rulers.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster employees, citizens, etc.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Perhaps they were not foreign to the intrigues which prepared the explosions of 1789 and the following years; but if they did not take an active part in these manoeuvres, it is at least beyond doubt that they openly applauded the systems which resulted from them; that the Republican armies when they penetrated into Germany found in these sectarians auxiliaries the more dangerous for the sovereigns of the invaded states in that they inspired no distrust, and we can say with assurance that more than one general of the Republic owed a part of its success to his understanding with the Illuminés .
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In the printing room the compositors are seen at work, and a printer is working a handpress.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Many of the laws for materials seem arbitrary, and people interpret them with greater freedom than they used to, but never under any circumstances can one who is not entirely in colors wear satin embroidered in silver or trimmed with jet and lace!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

What is needed is a formal legislative announcement that the governing of a remote and alien people is to have no permanent place in the purposes of our national life, and that we do bona fide intend, just as soon as a stable government, republican in form, can be established by the people of the Philippine Islands, to turn over, upon terms which [ vii ] shall be reasonable and just, the government and control of the islands to the people thereof.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

"And further away I saw others, and then more at another point in the wall.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Even as it is, of course, the spirit of democracy frequently differs widely from the letter, and a pothouse is often a better test than a Parliament.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

One wants money, another wants situations, another wants a decorative collar round his neck, another a plume in his hat, another embroidery on his sleeve, another women, another power; another news for the Bourse, another a railway, another wine.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

'Mr. Strelitski is a wonderfully eloquent young man, so quiet and reserved in society, but like an ancient prophet in the pulpit.'
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

By the time he reached Marborough, the journalist had come to the conclusion that Miss Clyde would be able to refute the accusation; and he determined to give her the chance of doing so next day at a personal interview.
— from The Rainbow Feather by Fergus Hume

Great as was the care necessary to conceal all Artillery preparations, it required still greater thought and consideration to keep entirely secret the presence behind the battle front of some 160 Tanks, and particularly to conceal their approach march into the battle.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

There is an amusing passage in Sir Francis Head’s “Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau” on hat-lifting: “At nearly a league from Langen-Schwalbach, I walked up to a little boy who was flying a kite on the top of a hill, in the middle of a field of oat-stubble.
— from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The longer he reflected on it, and the more he strove after a purified idea of deity, the clearer did the certitude of his great maxim appear: “God is the only God”—there are no other gods beside him.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

When needed it was pounded to a pulp, moistened with water, and applied as a poultice, if an external remedy was wanted.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

The calculations made at the Bureau of Longitudes concerning population authorize us again to subtract from the total mentioned two millions of young girls, pretty enough to kill; they are at present in the A B C of life and innocently play with other children, without dreading that these little hobbledehoys, who now make them laugh, will one day make them weep.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Weak, aged, in fear of torture, he made the melancholy confession that his "error had been one of vainglorious ambition, and pure ignorance and inadvertence."
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton