In former days they organized and plundered, in the present age the same spirit
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

On the next they started early and got on about two miles further, and descended into a place in the plain and there encamped, in order to procure some eatables from the houses, as the place was inhabited, and to carry on with them water from thence, as for many furlongs in front, in the direction in which they were going, it was not plentiful.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

His promotion had been romantic and irregular, the affections of a prominent Brazilian lady and the captain's liquid eyes had played a part in the process, and the Diario and O Futuro had been lamentably disrespectful in their comments.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Joseph Mede's Clavis Apocalyptica , published in 1627, and translated by Richard More in 1643, was as popular in the Pulpit as The Country Justice on the Bench.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

M. de St. Quentin’s valet, having received his instructions from his master, took the two females to a pavilion in the park, and the painter went to the hotel to await the result of his negotiation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There was a pond in the park, and to this my friend led the way.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The tents of the Hungarians were of leather, their garments of fur; they shaved their hair, and scarified their faces: in speech they were slow, in action prompt, in treaty perfidious; and they shared the common reproach of Barbarians, too ignorant to conceive the importance of truth, too proud to deny or palliate the breach of their most solemn engagements.
— 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

[202] As it is, he is forced [203] to subdivide the absolutely a priori into the pure and the mixed.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Hence we see why what was commonly called among them the "Doctrine of Divine Sovereignty" acquired so prominent a place in their preaching and their hearts.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

When the Tyrant now, in face of the people, caused him to be tortured in every possible way to get from him an avowal of his confederates, and when he questioned him about the enemies of the State, Zeno first named to the Tyrant all his friends as participators in the plot, and then spoke of the Tyrant himself as the pest of the State.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Besides that unreal, imaginary light upon these scenes, these persons, which is pure gift of his, there was a light, a poetry, in those persons and things themselves, close at hand we had not seen.
— from Imaginary Portraits by Walter Pater

Wild stories, moreover, were told of the nightly orgies in which the lights were extinguished and promiscuous intercourse took place; and the stubbornness of heresy was explained by telling how, when a child was born of these foul excesses, it was tossed from hand to hand through a fire until it expired; and that from its body was made an infernal eucharist of such power that whoever partook of it was thereafter incapable of abandoning the sect.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

[97] See also ‘Petrosinella’ in the Pentamerone , and ‘The Master-maid’ in Dasent’s Tales from the Norse .
— from Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

A violent heat and pain in the part accompany this, and fever and general disturbance of the system follow in a severe case.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

Violet smiled thanks and pleasure in the praise, and Theodora set to work to gratify her, by admiring each gift as much as her conscience would let her, and was well pleased to find that she was not at all wanted to commend a wonderful embroidered sachet from the bride, nor a pair of gorgeous screens from Matilda; but that what was dwelt upon were some sketches in Wrangerton Park, and the most prized of all was a little pair of socks, in delicate fancy knitting, for Johnnie.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

What, however, we are principally concerned with at present, is the prejudice accruing to the cause of science from the fundamental errors which cling to the human mind in its present form.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

One lot is resting while the other lot is working; then those that have been working are put in the pasture, and those that have been resting are put to work.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge