He enjoys not a moments relaxation; and what is yet stranger, the less natural and pressing his wants, the more headstrong are his passions, and, still worse, the more he has it in his power to gratify them; so that after a long course of prosperity, after having swallowed up treasures and ruined multitudes, the hero ends up by cutting every throat till he finds himself, at last, sole master of the world.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I remember when, during the late war with China, a regiment left a certain town, a large concourse of people flocked to the station to bid farewell to the general and his army.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

| TRICKLE is a large collection of public domain and shareware | | programs for MS-DOS, CPM, and other computers.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

How CAN you?" "Take a little care of Pa while I am gone, Mama!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The following is what takes place: A large concourse of people of all ages assemble, and sit down round a circle of stones, which is erected by the side of a road (really a narrow path).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

To save room, boilers which have to make steam very quickly and at high pressures are largely composed of pipes.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Hapless men in black; at last convicted of poniards made to order; convicted 'Chevaliers of the Poniard!'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There sets in, accordingly, a tendency to use various methods at once or a different one on each occasion, as language, custom, or presumption seems to demand.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He uttered a loud cry of pain and impotent rage, and the Marquis of Marialva, leaping from his steed, finished the beast’s life, with a stroke of his short hunting sword.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

The lady, glancing indifferently over her shoulder at the sound, of their tread, turned on the instant with a little cry of pleasure.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

One might as well expect a child to spell without learning the alphabet, as either of the above persons to understand Knowles, unless enlightened by a long course of previous instruction.]
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

But when he lifted him, he gave a low cry of pain.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

There is possibly a larger class of persons who hold that all such communications, if genuine, come not from the dead but from the devil.
— from Across the Stream by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The spheres are of papier-mâché covered with a light coating of plaster.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

In front of the gateway a large crowd of persons were assembled, consisting of the inferior gentry of the neighbourhood, with their wives, daughters, and servants, clergymen, attorneys, chirurgeons, farmers, and tradesmen of all kind from the adjoining towns of Blackburn, Preston, Chorley, Haslingden, Garstang, and even Lancaster.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Shade trees will be worn a little lower this summer, and will therefore succeed in wiping off a larger crop of plug hats, it is hoped.
— from Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye

[52] January 24, 1765, Fraser and Croghan set out from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, [53] followed a few days later by a large convoy of presents.
— from British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768 by Clarence Edwin Carter

Something should be deducted for the forced vivacity and straining after effect of the littérateur; but this sketch of a large class of peasantry from Max Schlesinger's "War in Hungary," just published in London, must have some foundation in truth—and very like the Red Indians or half-breeds of Spanish America the people look.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various