“The admirable perspective of the whole work is what one most admires.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Well! I also pointed out, that my most earnest desire was, to be useful to the family; and that if I got on in the world, and anything should happen to him—I refer to the Reverend Horace—’ ‘I understand,’ said I. ‘—Or to Mrs. Crewler—it would be the utmost gratification of my wishes, to be a parent to the girls.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Their royal masters, as they themselves gradually lost a part of their own privileges and power, could not sustain the authority of these officers.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee, And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss,—
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Of these nations, the Pisans and Venetians preserved their respective quarters in the city; but the services and power of the Genoese deserved at the same time the gratitude and the jealousy of the Greeks.
— 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

Miguel de Cervantes CHAPTER I. WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The expulsion of the first among Kant's disciples, who attempted to complete his system, from the University of Jena, with the confiscation and prohibition of the obnoxious work by the joint efforts of the courts of Saxony and Hanover, supplied experimental proof, that the venerable old man's caution was not groundless.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the same manner, in 1815, when Blücher had his army quietly in cantonments between the Sambre and the Rhine, and Wellington was attending fêtes in Brussels, both waiting a signal for the invasion of France, Napoleon, who was supposed to be at Paris entirely engrossed with diplomatic [Pg 265] ceremonies, at the head of his guard, which had been but recently reformed in the capital, fell like a thunderbolt upon Charleroi and Blücher's quarters, his columns arriving from all points of the compass, with rare punctuality, on the 14th of June, in the plains of Beaumont and upon the banks of the Sambre.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

This intention, with a promptitude often the effect of desperation, he at once commenced carrying into execution, with much vigour and surgical skill.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Pride would not allow them to ask permission of the States to remain, although they intimated to the ambassadors their intense desire to linger for ten or twelve days longer.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

In a country where, before the doctrine of popular sovereignty had been broached in any part of the world by the most speculative theorists, very vigorous and practical examples of democracy had been afforded to Europe; in a country where, ages before the science of political economy had been dreamed of, lessons of free trade on the largest scale had been taught to mankind by republican traders instinctively breaking in many directions through the nets by which monarchs and oligarchs, guilds and corporations, had hampered the movements of commerce; it was natural that fashion should instinctively rebel against restraint.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

when it was suggested that he should bestir himself, leaving me to do all the packing, groaning as he took up the tent pegs, and putting on the mule's bridle with the bit hanging under her chin!
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

And if you tell me that civilization and time can keep going much longer putting a premium on a man’s wrong and putting a penalty on the woman—then I tell you to your face that I’ve got inside information that you ain’t got.
— from Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale

But I wouldn’t tell him what it was, even when he raised his voice to me and pounded on the table with his fist.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

The government of the national defence still declaimed with stern reiteration: “Not a foot’s breadth of our country; not a stone of our fortresses!” and positively rejected all proposals of treaty based on territorial concessions.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

This is a part of the 20th suit in the Armourer’s Album in the South Kensington Museum.
— from Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner

In 1851 the ideas of Huygens and Papin of two hundred years before were revived by W. M. Storm, who in that year took out a gunpowder engine patent in the United States, in which the air was compressed by the explosions of small charges of gunpowder.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

I like you, Mr. Travers, because you are a part of that bigger world.
— from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura by Augustus Thomas

With these employments, and the fitting up of their stove, they spent all that day, and part of the next.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding