If you shoot your neighbor, you will be committing mere murder; but if you gather twenty or thirty friends, together, tie a red handkerchief around the left arm of each man, announce that you are out to overthrow the government of the United States, and then shoot your neighbor as a counterrevolutionary impediment to the new order of things, you can have the satisfaction of having waged war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

He glided about his hovel, gathering a rag here, a thong there, and another one yonder; then he returned, and by careful and gentle handling he managed to tie the King’s ankles together without waking him.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The diary declares "it is a burning, blistering shame," and relates her attempts to secure other work for him.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For the Frati Umiliati of Ognissanti in Florence, Giotto painted a chapel and four panels, in one of which there was the Madonna, with many angels round her and the Child in her arms, and a large Crucifix on wood, whereof Puccio Capanna took the design and wrought many of them afterwards throughout all Italy, having much practice in the manner of Giotto.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

I had already warned my landlord that we were not likely to be very quiet, and reassured him as to any possible damage to his furniture.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Hence the houses are built of one story only; and even the Government respects the prejudice by never placing a prisoner in the stocks under the floor of a house, though the houses are raised high above the ground.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

OF PUNISHMENTS, AND REWARDS H2 anchor The Definition Of Punishment "A PUNISHMENT, is an Evill inflicted by publique Authority, on him that hath done, or omitted that which is Judged by the same Authority to be a Transgression of the Law; to the end that the will of men may thereby the better be disposed to obedience.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I begged him to see that they lodged in a respectable house, and to pay for them on my behalf.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Then the Master looks into his very face, and remembers him as the Roman knight he had seen in the Porch of Solomon.
— from An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Arthur Benton Sanford

I seized Mou-Mou by the collar, and ran him along to his kennel.
— from In the Mountains by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Belated once, and returning home after the hour forbidden for slaves to be abroad, he was caught by the patrol and cruelly whipped.
— from The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles by James Lane Allen

God crowned the earth with his goodness to gratify man; gave man a right to serve himself of the delightful creatures he had provided (Gen. i. 28‒30); yea, and after man had forfeited all by sin, and God had washed again the creature in a deluge, he renews the creation, and delivers it again into the hand of man, binding all creatures to pay a respect to him, and recognise him as their Lord, either spontaneously, or by force; and commissions them all to fill the heart of man with “food and gladness” (Gen. ix.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

She finds Diderot’s imagination inexhaustible, and ranks him among the most extraordinary men that have ever lived; she delights in his conversation, and his visits have given her the most uncommon pleasure.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

The grim figure raised a restraining hand, as the Earl drew his sword.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

It will also fetch its compasses and circuits; it will go about and reach hither and thither, and according to its courses it will miss by its turnings what places and people it lists, yet it is common, for that it lies open, yet it is common for all the beasts of the field.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Looking out upon the long stretch of river either way were islands and islands of every size whatever, from three feet in diameter to those which contained miles of area, resting here and there in the most artistic disregard of position and relation to each other, the small and the great alike wearing its own mantle of sheerest willow-green.
— from In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 by Gilbert L. Cole

One of the two cows got up and relieved herself, and the dung splashed down softly and rhythmically.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The flatterers of the king applauded his "immortal labours," as they were pleased to call them; and James continued to toil at them, revise, and remodel his arguments till 1609.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous