Nothing more was necessary between Tadpole and Taper; but, if some hack in statu pupillari happened to be present at the conference, and the gentle novice greedy for party tattle, and full of admiring reverence for the two great hierophants of petty mysteries before him, ventured to intimate his anxiety for initiation, the secret was entrusted to him, “that all was right there; that his grace only watched his opportunity; that he was heartily sick of the present men; indeed, would have gone over with Lord Stanley in 1835, had he not had a fit of the gout, which prevented him from coming up from the north; and though to be sure his son and brother did vote against the speaker, still that was a mistake; if a letter had been sent, which was not written, they would have voted the other way, and perhaps Sir Robert might have been in at the present moment.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The pacific reign of James afforded them the opportunity of increasing their strength and maturing their schemes, and under his successor, Charles I. their numbers were greatly increased by titular Romish archbishops, bishops, deans, vicars-general, abbots, priests, and friars; for which reason, in 1629, the public exercise of the popish rites and ceremonies was forbidden.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“You challenge him right now or else I’ll tell everybody here who you are.” “But, Doña Victorina!”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The strict and absolute necessity of the acts of Will, determined by motives as they arise, was first shown by Hobbes, then by Spinoza, and Hume, and also by Dietrich von Holbach in his Système de la Nature ; and lastly by Priestley it was most completely and precisely demonstrated.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Altogether she lives in an expensive style; she has taken a big detached villa with a large garden, and has taken all her town retinue with her—two maids, a coachman...
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Het Animisme bij den Volken van den indischen
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Ad Bosporos duos, vel bubus meabili transitu; unde nomen ambobus ( Pliny , vi. 1).
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

CIUTTI: Diferencia There’s a big difference va de él a vos. between you and him.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

This day come to town Mr. Homewood, and I took him home in the evening to my chamber, and discoursed with him about my business of the Victualling, which I have a mind to employ him in, and he is desirous of also, but do very ingenuously declare
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She had on a black dress, very long and very scant, that looked as if it were made out of an old waterproof cloak.
— from Gypsy Breynton by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Muse aiding, Bernard de Ventadour, a baker’s son; was raised to the lips of the rather volatile Queen Eleanor.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Such a being might murder one of the ratepayers of London, compound a felony, or enter into a conspiracy to depose the King himself, and, being detected, very properly be put under restraint, or visited with chastisement, either deterrent or vindictive, or both.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett

The Theban women were distinguished for majestic figure and beauty (Dikæarchus, Vit.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

Enveloped in his panoply of self-conceit, he was tossed back and forth on this female hornet's-nest, an agonized, but delighted victim.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

These machine-guns were thick in the ruins of Rœux, just north of the River Scarpe; in Pelves, just south of it, in two small woods called Bois du Sart and Bois du Vert, immediately facing Monchy, on the slope of the hill; and in and about the village of Guémappe, which we had assaulted and entered twice before.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

Mon pauvre père Verra son vent Pâlir ma mère Au bruit du vent ...
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

Feuillet now became a follower of Dumas fils, especially so in ‘La Belle au Bois Dormant’ (Vaudeville, 1865); ‘Le Cas de Conscience (Theatre Francais, 1867); ‘Julie’ (Theatre Francais 1869).
— from Monsieur de Camors — Complete by Octave Feuillet

With its swift characterisation of schools and politics, with its subtle tracings of the development of various tendencies through the influence of their environment, of reaction, and of polemic; with its contrasts of different systems, philosophies, and races; with its portraits of men; with its sense of progress and revolt—this part of Dr. Fairbairn's book is no mere annal, but drama, vivid and full of motion, representative of the volume and sweep of Christianity through the centuries."— Speaker.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

Adams was alarmed at the anger which he had excited, and besought de Vergennes to hold his hand until Franklin could "have opportunity to make his representations to his majesty's ministers."
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse