In the Lowestoft fight the Dutch van gave way; and a little later one of the junior admirals of the centre, Opdam's own squadron, being killed, the crew was seized with a panic, [109] took the command of the ship from her officers, and carried her out of action.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

God made him like to the glorious saints, and magnified him so, that his enemies stood in fear of him; and for him made wonders; made him glorious in the sight of kings, gave him a commandment for his people, and by him showed his light; he sanctified him in his faithfulness and meekness, and chose him out of all men.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The passions which are unbridled in them are creating huge organizations of slavery in the disguise of freedom.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

(In a certain sense the latter can maintain and develop himself most easily in a democratic society: there where the coarser means of defence are no longer necessary, and a certain habit of order, honesty, justice, trust, is already a general condition.)
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He would be branded, stigmatized as a coward, hounded out of society!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He built it in secret, but the planters, getting wind of it, broke open his room, stole his invention, built machines of their own, and cheated him out of his property.
— from My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Charles Carleton Coffin

[411] A crypt hewn out of the solid rock, under the presbytery, is regarded with great reverence by the Sardes, as containing the supposed remains of two hundred martyrs removed there from the church of St. Saturninus, in 1617.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

The second time that this extreme lateness came under his notice was on a day when he had particularly wished to consult with her about his future movements; and he concluded, as he always had done, that she had a cold, headache, or other ailment, unless she had kept herself invisible to avoid meeting and talking to him, which he could hardly believe.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

The steady habit of correcting and completing his own opinion by collating it
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Jacquette Brouin and Cambremer had only one son, a lad they loved—how shall I say?—well, they loved him like an only child, they were mad about him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Many a boy with a sort of natural knack at carpentry can build a chicken house out of second-hand lumber or out of a couple of piano boxes.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

The Quarterly Reviewer (from whom we again quote), after concluding his observations on Sir John's speech in 1734, goes on to say: 'In the same year a curious incident occurred in the neighbourhood of his seat at Clowance, with which Sir John was only indirectly connected in [294] his capacity of Justice of the Peace, but which was ultimately attended with very serious consequences to himself and his family.
— from Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter H. (Walter Hawken) Tregellas