Others may in a Metaphorical or Philosophick Sense be said to command themselves, but this Emperor is also literally under his own Command.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

When the Ionians had been thus evilly entreated but were continuing still to hold their gatherings as before at the Panionion, Bias a man of Priene set forth to the Ionians, as I am informed, a most profitable counsel, by following which they might have been the most prosperous of all the Hellenes.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The story of his first day as a member of Professor Stubbs's household was professionally clever farce, if not high comedy, in a young man who could write a Greek ode or a Provençal chanson as easily as an English quatrain.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Near Llandyfrydog, Anglesea, there is a maenhir of peculiar shape.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

To Balzac, more than to any other author, a Repertory of characters is applicable; for he it was who not only created an entire human society, but placed therein a multitude of personages so real, so distinct with vitality, that biographies of them seem no more than simple justice.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

If the sounds which he makes occur in a medium of persons speaking the Chinese language, the activities which make like sounds will be selected and coordinated.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Synnada retains its position as metropolis of Phrygia Salutaris .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Duncan, brave as he was in the combat, could not, in such a moment of painful suspense, make any reply to the cool and characteristic remark of the scout.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Wordsworth she insisted upon estimating from his best, not from his poorest work, and his “Ode” was to her so grand as to atone for a multitude of poetic sins.
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

The primitive relations between the nervous network and the muscular system are matters of pure speculation.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Spicer was upward of six feet in height, very large boned, and must, when he was in his prime, have been a man of prodigious strength.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

and teacheth it not only by delivering forth his very being, his causes, and effects: but also, by making known his enemy vice, which must be destroyed, and his cumbersome servant passion, which must be mastered, by showing the generalities that contain it, and the specialities that are derived from it: lastly, by plain setting down, how it extendeth itself out of the limits of a man's own little world, to the government of families and maintaining of public societies.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

XIX A UNANIMOUS CHOICE FOR SPEAKER A MEETING OF PROSPECTIVE SPEAKERS—DR.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

Ask any workman what ails his employer, and he will say that it is the ownership of the earth, with a mortgage on planetary space.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

“Or a mock orange, perhaps,” suggested Nancy.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

A moment of profound silence and then followed the sound of a step within.
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

“Is not he at any rate a man of principle?” said a quaker lady to Carlyle.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley