The system might at first necessitate a resort to some of the very shifts and expedients from which she intended it should free her; but she felt sure that in a short time she would be able to play the game in her own way.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Note 4 ( return ) [ The word celestial faintly expresses the impious and extravagant flattery of the emperor to the archbishop.
— 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

It also exhibits four great and three lesser dynasties of the Lunar race; and an eighth line is added, of the race of Yadu, from the annals of the Bhatti tribe at Jaisalmer.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He proudly displayed the ensigns of royalty; but the city and palace of Modain had already escaped from the hand of the 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

I know by these reports even what students are excused from school, and why they are excused—whether for reasons of ill health or otherwise.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

It uses every principle of public speaking, and every "form of discourse," to use a rhetorician's expression, but argument supplemented by special appeal is its peculiar quality.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

We are equipped for conquest.
— from The Jericho Road by W. Bion Adkins

This elastic acid vapour, or acid air, extinguishes flame, and is much heavier than common air; but how much heavier, will not be easy to ascertain.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

We pitched our tents in an extensive field, and found quite a large body of troops who had preceded us, numbering about six thousand.
— from Our Battery; Or, The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by O. P. (Orlando Phelps) Cutter

These sketches, hastily dashed off in a few hours of the author’s leisure from engrossing business, show quite an eye for character, and are exceedingly amusing.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 6, June 1847 by Various

The delicate female was guarded from all knowledge, and even from all suspicion, of evil.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

"Why then, be ye cautious each and every, for, an our foes do take alarm, so shall it be our death.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

On the whole a most pleasant face to look at, especially for, those claiming a right to that youth's affections—parents, for instance, or sisters.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The more purely recreational features, however, the Men's Club and the Community Club and the lounging rooms and library, are placed as low as the accessible eighth floor.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

He had from the first an eye for popularity, and did all that he could to please the people by shows and pageants that forced him to dip deeply into his father's hoarded money.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Thereupon the Imperial Chancellor, not being quite an angel, asked whether we had counted the cost of crossing the path of an Empire fighting for its life (for these Militarist statesmen do really believe that nations can be killed by cannon shot).
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various